Category: Resisting Globalization
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BHOPAL, INDIA, January 13, 2000 – Mike Moore, the shell-shocked Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is visiting India this week to meet with “top officials and business leaders”. It’s all part of a concerted attempt at damage control … Continue reading
Globalism and Race at A16 in D.C.
This article was originally published in ColorLines (Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 2000). Last year’s World Trade Organization (WTO) shutdown in Seattle was a historic moment for the growing U.S. movement against corporate globalization. However, the Seattle actions, dazzling as … Continue reading
States of Unrest: Resistance to IMF policies in poor countries
View summary below or click here for a link to the full text. Summary Claims by James Wolfensohn, Horst Köhler, and the Western media that protests against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are led by students and anarchists … Continue reading
Rethinking the China Campaign
First published in New Labor Forum (Fall/Winter 2000) On May 24, 2000, the American labor movement suffered a significant defeat in their attempt to block Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status for China. The House of Representatives voted 237-197 to … Continue reading
Aryan Politics & Fighting the W.T.O.
This article appears courtesy of Anti-Fascist Forum and Kersplebedeb. Don’t watch the light, watch the cars. Light ain’t going to hit you.” -Moms Mabley There’s been an illusion that opposing the WTO is by its very nature a left issue. … Continue reading
Finding Hope After Seattle: Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement
Just over a year ago thousands of us were preparing for an uncertain showdown with global capital in Seattle. Yet we barely realized that we were about to initiate some of the most successful protests in recent U.S. history. Indeed, … Continue reading
Redefining Success: White Contradictions in the Anti-Globalization Movement
In the growing resistance to capitalism within the United States, many white activists consider Seattle as the ‘beginning of a movement’, and gauge anti-capitalist work using Seattle as the measuring stick. As the U.S. anti-globalization movement continues to build steam, … Continue reading
Combatting white supremacy in the anti-globalization movement
The anti-globalization movement has been vibrant in communities and organizations of color in the US and around the world for hundreds of years, and yet white supremacy was rampant in the movement against the WTO ministerial meetings in Seattle. In … Continue reading
Plan Colombia, FTAA and Black Communities in the Process of Global Struggle
The US Congress has allocated $1.3 billion to the government of Colombia for a military intervention which was denominated Plan Colombia. The official purpose of this ‘Plan’ is to put an end to the illegal growing of coca by destroying … Continue reading
Free trade, racial oppression, and how we can respond
[The following is adapted from a presentation at the “From Protest to Resistance: a radical look at the FTAA” forum hosted by Anti-Racist Action. Toronto, January 25, 2001.] I’ve been asked to come here today to talk about the effects … Continue reading
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