[1] She is a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (IBRD) and what she calls their 'maldevelopment model'.
[2] After attending a public, co-educational primary school, she went on to enroll at all-girls private preparatory academy.
No one knows in which direction the balance will tip nor does anyone know which actions, which writings, which alliances may achieve the critical mass that leads us one way or another, backwards or forwards.
I am acutely conscious of the precariousness of our moment and my four much-loved grandchildren give me added resolve to address it.
[citation needed] At a time when women were not often allowed places of power in any organizational hierarchy, George established herself as a leader in the anti-hunger movement.
[citation needed] She became a political activist in response to France's war in Algeria and U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
[4] George said that the Vietnam War "was this sort of gateway to understanding what America could be, which is to say something quite negative, which I had not understood at all when I lived there.
[5][6] In 1971 she began working with the Front Solidarite Indochine, a group that organized antiwar lectures and protests in France.
[2] In 1974 she attended the World Food Conference in Rome, but was disillusioned due to her feeling that agribusiness representatives dominated the proceedings, saying in an interview that "no one who counted took the real reasons for hunger—power and control in the wrong hands—into account.
[1] George opposed the OECD's proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in the 1990s,[1] and the ill-fated "Millennium Round" objectives of the World Trade Organization at Seattle in 1999.
[2] From 1999 to 2006 she was vice-president of ATTAC France (Association for Taxation of (financial) Transactions to Aid Citizens) and remains a member of the scientific council.
With four years clear ahead of him and no re-election to worry about, I fear Bush and the ghastly neo- con/neo-liberals around him will now go on the rampage.