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A movement of movements : is another world really possible? / edited by Tom Mertes ; with contributions by Walden Bello ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indigenous peoples--Politics and government.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Anti-globalization movement.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 288 pages : maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, 2004.
- Summary:
- A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the new mosaic of groups and campaigns currently challenging neoliberal globalization. In this unique collection, leading theorists and activists -- the Zapatistas' Subcomandante Marcos, Chittaroopa Palit from the Indian Narmada Valley dam protests, Soweto anti-privatization campaigner Trevor Ngwane, Brazilian Sem Terra leader Joao Pedro Stedile and many others -- discuss their personal formation as radicals, the history of their movements, their analyses of globalization and the nuts and bolts of mobilizing against a US-dominated world system. Explaining how the global South and the experience of indigenous peoples have provided such a dynamic and practical inspiration, the key thinkers of the new wave describe the roles anarchism and direct democracy have played, the nature and limitations of the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre as a co-ordinating focus, and the effects of the economic downturn, September 11 and Washington's war on terror. Their statements, at once personal and visionary, offer a dazzling new insight into the political imagination of the global resistance movements.
- Contents:
- Southern Voices
- The Hourglass of the Zapatistas / Subcomandante Marcos 3
- Brazil's Landless Battalions / Joao Pedro Stedile 17
- The Global South / Walden Bello 49
- Monsoon Risings / Chittaroopa Palit 71
- Cancel the Debt / Njoki Njehu 94
- Sparks in the Township / Trevor Ngwane 111
- Northern Voices
- A Farmers' International? / Jose Bove 137
- Inventing ATTAC / Bernard Cassen 152
- Raising a Ruckus / John Sellers 175
- Students Against Sweatshops / Bhumika Muchhala 192
- The New Anarchists / David Graeber 202
- Analytics
- Reclaiming the Commons / Naomi Klein 219
- Today's Bandung? / Michael Hardt 230
- Grass-roots Globalism / Tom Mertes 237
- Beyond Civil Society / Emir Sader 248
- New Revolts Against the System / Immanuel Wallerstein 262.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859844685
- 1859845045
- OCLC:
- 53243132
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