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anti-globalization
Occupy Wall Street: Lessons from anti-globalization protests
I can't help but compare the Occupy Wall Street protests to the movements that sprang up against corporate globalization at the end of the 1990s, most visibly at the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle. Like today's protests, those demonstrations were also marked by innovative coalitions among students, trade unions and environmentalists.
Here are the things I think today's activists are doing better than we did back then. We chose summits as our targets: the WTO, the International Monetary Fund, the G-8. Summits are transient by nature, and that made us transient too. We'd appear, grab world headlines, then disappear. After the 9/11 attacks, it was easy to sweep us away completely, at least in North America.
Naomi Klein speaks at Occupy Wall Street
I was honoured to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so others could hear (a.k.a. "the human microphone"), what I actually said at Liberty Plaza had to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech.
I love you.
And I didn't just say that so that hundreds of you would shout "I love you" back, though that is obviously a bonus feature of the human microphone. Say unto others what you would have them say unto you, only way louder.
Stuff white people smash
Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent
(AK Press,
2010;
$19.95)
Reading AK Thompson's book Black Bloc, White Riot kept bringing to mind one particular memory from the Summit of the Americas protests in Quebec City a decade ago.
G20 Reading Week
Date: Monday, November 15, 2010 - 11:30am - Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 11:30am
Location
Turtle Island
Various
Canada
See map: Google Maps
Welcome to G20 Reading Week!
What happened in Toronto and why do we need to fundraise?
The World Social Forum: Canadian contexts and questions
Ten years ago this month, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the World Social Forum erupted onto the global scene. Conceived in the heat of the surging anti-globalization movement, it summoned activists from around the world to gather in a spectacular festival of alternatives to neoliberal globalization. The World Social Forum quickly became a beacon and a magnet, attracting a stunning array of social forces who shared unequivocal opposition to neoliberalism, but who were otherwise exceedingly diverse -- in their demographic make-up, organizational forms, cultural expressions, geographic roots and reach, strategies, tactics and discourses.
G20 Pittsburgh: Globalization Goes Bankrupt
G20: Globalization Goes Bankrupt
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15327
"The rage of the disposessed is fracturing the country, dividing it into camps that are unmoored from the political mainstream. Movements are building at the ends of the political spectrum that have lost faith in the mechanisms of democratic change. You can't blame them.
But unless we on the left move quickly, this rage will be captured by a virulent and racist right wing, one that seeks a disturbing proto-fascism.
Every day counts. Every deferral of protest hurts...
Complacency comes at a horrible price.."
Washington IMF/World Bank Protests
Introduction
On April 16, 2000 approximately 30,000 activists converged on Washington D.C. as part of a direct action against the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank meetings occuring that weekend.
History and Context
Following on the perceived success of the Seattle protests in November 1999, the then fledging anti-globalization movement set its sights on the policies of the IMF/World Bank, which activists said promoted poverty in developing nations and global inequality between nations by forcing poor nations to adopt free market reforms and other neo-liberal policies in order to qualify for loans.
The Event