Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth

This conference was organized by the WCC, the Christian Conference of
Asia (CCA-FMU) and local NGOs in Indonesia, both Christian and
Muslim. The main questions addressed in this gathering were “Is there
still an alternative to strengthen the spirit of resistance of the people in
facing globalization? Do people in Africa and Asia still have what we call
the geo-political vision outside of the dreams promised by the free market
and globalization?”
The “spirit of Bandung” - the theme of a 1955 conference of nations
under colonialism held to discuss liberation - was evoked to enable
countries to liberate themselves today from corporate globalization.
Churches in Asia will celebrate 2005 as the 50 th anniversary of Bandung.
A communiqué issued at the end of the June 2002 conference called
for an alternative, peaceful and just world. Such a world, it said, is
achievable if people and governments cooperate for a future of solidarity
to overcome the implications of globalization. 24
Council of Churches in Latin America: consultation on economy in
the fullness of life, Buenos Aires, 2003
For this consultation jointly organized by the Council of Churches in Latin
America (CLAI) and the WCC, the Latin American churches produced
a document entitled “Seeking solutions, moving forward: the Protestant
Churches say ‘Enough is enough’”. “We have reached our limit: we have
had enough of such injustices,” the document declares. And continues:
“The globalized economic system is no answer to the evils in our societies.
We pray to God that God will inspire us, despite our differences, to
walk together the path of justice. The churches recognize that the social
movement against free market globalization has begun to emerge and is
gaining in strength. This demonstrates two things: that it is a social
movement against an order accentuating inequality, and that denying
solidarity is continuing to grow. It finds its major expression in the World
Social Forum. Secondly an alternative approach to economic
globalization is being formulated to the exclusive free market approach.
The churches are called to work for alternatives.”
Communiqué of an LWF-WARC- WCC consultation on ecclesiology
and economic globalization, Cartigny, Switzerland, October 2002
Theologians and economists probed ecclesial entry points - from the
Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Reformed Traditions
- into discussion on economic globalization at an 11-14 December 2002
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Africa-Asia: Beyond globalization: spirituality of common future, edited by Josef P. Wiyatmadja
and A. Wati Longchar, CCA, Hongkong, 2002.
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Communiqué of the LWF-WARC-WCC consultation on ecclesiology and economic
globalization, December 11-14, 2002, Cartigny, Switzerland.
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