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 | | Antiglobalization protests have become a big business that involves millions of dollars, trans-national organizations and a global agenda. | | | Instead of selling T-shirts or toothpaste, the agitators are selling limits on cross-border trade. | | | At its heart, the antiglobalization business is a foundation-, union- and government-funded coalition of convenience. |
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| Â | DRSresearch.com |
| | Antiglobalization proponents hold international economic development organizations and multinational corporations responsible. | | | Current trends in antiglobalization rhetoric and the evolution of "netwar" have set the stage for a global uprising against the principal actors and institutions of globalization. | | | Recent protests against international economic development organizations and multilateral financial institutions indicate growing discontent with global economic conditions. |
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| Â | Foreign Affairs - Spreading the Wealth - David Dollar and Aart Kraay |
| | Thanks to higher growth driven by greater openness to trade and investment, global inequality has narrowed and global poverty has been reduced. | | | David Dollar and Aart Kraay are economists at the World Bank's Development Research Group. | | | It benefits the rich and does little for the poor, perhaps even making their lot harder. |
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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20020101faessay6561/david-dollar-aart-kraay/spreading-the-wealth.html
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| Â | 01/08/27, "Moderate" Antiglobalization Groups Receive Funds from Corporations, Gov |
| | Okanski says that, in addition to outright payments to umbrella organizations like the Genoa Social Forum, governments frequently set up what are called "social justice" funds to provide matching grants to organizations like trade unions that have a protectionist or antiglobalization agenda. | | | Many of these philanthropic groups are based in the U.S., since under American law, corporations can deduct contributions to charities to lower their tax bills. | | | "Moderate" Antiglobalization Groups Receive Funds from Corporations, Governments |
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| Â | Global Exchange : wsj110201.html |
| | The meeting's participants are supposed to agree on the broad parameters of a future round of world trade talks, something global leaders have said is crucial to rebuilding confidence in the face of economic recession. | | | For instance, back in Seattle, Bill Clinton wanted the WTO to let governments impose trade sanctions on countries that allow child labor or persecute labor unions. | | | Despite the lack of street agitation, however, Mike Moore, the WTO's director general, predicts that the environment and other issues tightly linked to the antiglobalization agenda could be "deal-breakers" at Doha. |
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| | Neither massive debt cancellation, nor fairer trade provisions nor a "Marshall Plan for the World" nor the abolition of the World Bank and IMF were launched in response to the movement's efforts (whatever the debates within the movement about the effectiveness of these demands). | | | In this context, the priority of the antiglobalization movement is to offer an anti-war, anti-patriarchal alternative to the deadly politics of the fundamentalists and their globalizing adversaries by showing that we can address the issues that have lead to this situation: | | | The power of the antiglobalization movement is in its potential to build a real, not simply ideological, political struggle of the world's working people against the plans of globalizing capitalism. |
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http://www.riseup.net/uuignite/article.php?id=33
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| | The internationalists, extranationalists, anarchists and anti-nation-statists of the antiglobalization movement have a mean task ahead of them: tackling the radical and reformist nationalist agendas of a growing number of anti-globalists. | | | The campaigns can easily fit into a conservative and nationalist agenda. | | | There needs to be a historical analysis of recent social movements which examines precisely what has become of their more radical elements and how various movements have been co-opted to serve the interests of capital and the state.) The fact is that antiglobalists are united by a common name, if not a common ideology. |
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| Â | 20/9/2002 -- IMF protests will test antiglobalization movement |
| | Between 5,000 and 25,000 people are expected to join rallies, traffic blockades, and attempts to "quarantine the IMF and World Bank" during the meetings of the global lenders and a gathering of finance ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy countries, said Police Sgt. Joe Gentile. | | | WASHINGTON — Thousands of protesters demanding a better deal for the world's poorest countries are expected to converge on Washington next week during the IMF annual meetings in what may prove a litmus test for the antiglobalization movement in the aftermath of Sept. 11. | | | Reading on line, downloading or other use of this information signifies acceptance of these conditions, and the Full Disclaimer, and may occur on these terms only. |
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http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=16006
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| Â | [Imc-sydney-news] How to make money from the antiglobalization |
| | [Imc-sydney-news] How to make money from the antiglobalization | | | Previous message: [Imc-sydney-news] Interview - A Dossier on Civilian Victims of U.S. Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan |
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http://lists.cat.org.au/pipermail/imc-sydney-news/2001-December/005399.html
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| Â | Antiglobalization Movement Is Revived As Protesters Descend Upon EU Summit PHILIP SHISHKIN, KATYA KAZAKINA and EDWARD ... |
| | Media attention also focused on the antiterrorist campaign and the global economic slowdown. | | | However, that may be a tough sell for the general public, which has watched televised scenes of ordinary Afghans rejoicing the overthrow of the Taliban regime. | | | Riet Dhont, a protest organizer and a member of the Belgian Communist party, spoke vaguely of "other democratic forces in Afghanistan." These forces, she said, should decide the country's future without the military interference of foreign powers, which have fueled Afghanistan's many wars. |
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http://www.mindfully.org/WTO/Brussles-80000-Protesters14dec01.htm
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| Â | The antiglobalization battle plan csmonitor.com |
| | Hertz argues that politicians have become estranged from their constituents because big business increasingly plays governments off against each other, constantly searching for the best investment environment and threatening to leave if their demands are not met. | | | But while the question is sensationalistic, Hertz's answer is not. | | | And that's why, thanks to the combination of her populist style with a rigorous political commentary, "The Silent Takeover" is fast becoming the central text of the antiglobalization movement. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1003/p16s01-bogn.html
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| Â | 02/02/03, Evil Axis, Antiglobalization Movement's Future |
| | She argues that the movement in the U.S. has succeeded in fundamentally shifting the policy debate as to how labor, environment, and development issues should be addressed in trade agreements--not whether they will be addressed. | | | Argentina is important because reflects the most recent sustained effort by a national government to resist the orthodoxy of the Washington Consensus and therefore reflects the possibility of demonstration effects within Latin America and renewed political space for alternatives to neoliberalism at the level of national policy. | | | Afghanistan is a vehicle to link the antiglobalization and terrorism agendas to discuss the economic roots of terrorism. |
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| Â | Genova and the Antiglobalization Movement: August 23, 2001 |
| | One month later, however, the PDS is now facing in Parliament a self-confident Berlusconi determined to ram through, above their cries, new legislation incentivizing work "flexibilization" intended especially for the youth--a youth institutional lefts are now unable to defend as they were unable to defend it in the streets of Genova. | | | This issue is becoming very crucial in the United States, where black and Latino people, for instance, can be sure to receive a different treatment by the police if they join antiglobalization demonstrations. | | | These are some reflections on what has taken place in Genova during the G-8 meetings and on the post-Genova debate. |
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| Â | AlterNet: The Antiglobalization Movement Gets Global |
| | Rather activists say they seek to get out a complex message: that multinational corporations and the institutions that support them (the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF and many a Western government) are causing vast economic imbalances between rich and poor and tremendous third world debt. | | | Thousands of people from all over the world shared their views on antiglobalization." | | | Also among activist frustrations is the way the term antiglobalization is used against them. |
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| Â | BW Online April 17, 2000 Antiglobalization's Many Groups Find Common Ground |
| | And students and environmentalists have broadened their focus to embrace the AFL-CIO's call for global labor standards, as well as its rejection of normal trade relations between the U.S. and China. | | | For example, in a pre-demonstration gathering on Apr. 14, some 3,000 students and United Steelworkers (USW) members met at a Washington Marriott to plan ways they could work together in the future. | | | The antiglobalization forces encompass too many divergent goals to ever truly become a unified political force. |
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| Â | Monthly Review June 2002 Leo Panitch |
| | Not national security, but imperial security will trump the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. | | | It should be noted that this was a "mainstream" conference, at which the former head of Canada's security service, senior members of Québec's police force, and various politicians and civil libertarian lawyers, as well as social movement and antiglobalization activists, were also invited to speak. | | | I mean by this not only the Communist and insurrectionary revolutionary left, but also the vaccuum created by Social Democratic parties who, unable to change themselves from administrators of the welfare state into mobilizing agencies to fight neoliberalism, have all too often stoked the disenchantment with electoral politics by embracing capitalist globalization themselves. |
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| Â | "Ironic Reversal" |
| | The antiglobalization forces are trying to protect developing countries from free trade. | | | Due to this limitation, you may experience unexpected results within this site. | | | Lemke's striptease, you understand, was a political act--he's a member of the "Gapatistas," a San Francisco-based antiglobalization group--and he bared his soul, among other things, in order to protest the meeting in Miami this week of trade ministers from 34 different countries. |
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| Â | 27/9/2002 -- No Logo author rebrands antiglobalization |
| | Anybody who governs should have to be accountable to the people they govern," she said. | | | Klein, 32, became a spokeswoman for antiglobalization with the publication of her 2000 book No Logo, which denounced corporate branding as a tool to hide destructive financial and political networks. | | | The momentum of the antiglobalization movement slowed sharply after the attacks of Sept. 11, when the shift of that year's IMF and World Bank meetings to Ottawa stopped in its tracks a major protest planned for Washington. |
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| Â | Anarchy - 52 - "Stop the Violence!"? |
| | State authorities, corporate leaders and their bought-&-paid-for mass media have one major aim-to hobble, confuse, and eventually disperse and destroy the current antiglobalization upsurge. | | | The more liberal arm of the establishment, corporate media will rarely fail to encourage and praise the liberal, progressive and pacifist globalization-reform elements for their "responsibility" (read: "ineffectiveness at fundamentally challenging the powers-that-be"), while demonizing the radical anticapitalists among antiglobalization protestors. | | | Any genuine movement criticisms of protest violence must always be framed in the explicit context of the condemnation of the (always much more brutal and illegitimate) violence of the forces of state and corporate repression. |
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| Â | IHT: Antiglobalization forces shift to pragmatic tactics |
| | Protesters have targeted the Davos conference and virtually every major gathering of the world's most powerful politicians and corporate chiefs since 1999 when they brought a World Trade Organization (WTO)meeting in Seattle to a standstill. | | | Unlike many activists, Stiglitz is not opposed to international trade but to the way poor countries are forced to open up their markets. | | | Open Forum has some high-profile speakers this year, including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics. |
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| | This does not mean, of course, that large antiglobalization demonstrations on the site of globalizers’ meetings will be abandoned, in the same way as trade unionists have not abandon the strike as a means of struggle, even in the face of the widespread use of scabs. | | | We were not in Genova on July 19-21, 2001 and were not involved in the process of preparing the demos; thus, there are aspects of this debate we cannot comment upon. | | | But the globalizers are learning, and if their present ruminations are to be realized they will be soon meet high on the Rockies—the next G8 meeting venue--or (as with the WTO’s next venue in Qatar) in similarly inaccessible locations. |
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| Â | Holloway Sparks."The Politics of Public Anger and the Seattle Antiglobalization Protests" |
| | Their critics, in turn, are angered by the disruption of the work of these institutions, the vandalism that has been associated with these protests, and the failure of police to control the unruly crowds. | | | Antiglobalization protests (like those in Seattle in 1999) and the official response to them raise troubling issues for contemporary democracies. | | | The public struggle over whose anger is righteous, and by extension, over whether the antiglobalization protesters will be cast as a violent mob or as a democratic movement for justice thus has potentially far reaching consequences. |
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| Â | TIME Europe Czech Republic: Radical Czechs 9/25/2000 |
| | European motorists are fed up with ever-higher fuel taxes | | | Israel's Shas Party is tapping into mysticism to give its politics more potency | | | It isn't easy being a radical marxist these days. |
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http://time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0925/imf.html
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| Â | babble: Antiglobalization protesters = mass murdering terrorists |
| | Their message is important, whether I agree with it or not. | | | I urge commentators to be very clear that they are against violent protest in any form. | | | Imagine how you would feel a person calls Mike Harris a fascist. |
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http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=26&t=000016
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| Â | Tim Blair: LIES, AND THE LEFTY LOSERS WHO LOVE THEM |
| | Someday, when the crisis of American democracy is over, I'll probably find myself berating Moore, who supported Ralph Nader in 2000, for his simplistic antiglobalization views. |
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http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/007104.php
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| Â | WTO-listed: Will antiglobalization activists be under surveillance at the world trade forum in Cancun? |
| | Citing an unidentified national security document, the report says Mexican police and military forces will keep an eye on the WTO critics named on the list. | | | More than 60 international antiglobalization activists have been tagged for surveillance while in Cancún, Mexico, for the high-profile meeting of the World Trade Organization in September, according to an Aug. 18 report in the Mexican journal La Reforma. | | | WTO-listed: Will antiglobalization activists be under surveillance at the world trade forum in Cancun? |
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| | Another pot of money with a sleazy pedigree behind the Antiglobalization roadshow is the foundation started by Sir Jimmy Goldsmith, the well-born corporate raider who has now retired to statesmanship and philanthropy. | | | Kirkpatrick Sale wants to smash computers and live like the Amish, who happily use antibiotics and sell their produce for cash while refusing to participate in industrial life. | | | It's a strangely amorphous enemy, one at odds with the usual progressive celebration of diversity, and an interesting shift for a tradition that was once deeply cosmopolitan. |
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http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Globalization.html
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| Â | TIME Europe Magazine: Fear in Florence -- Nov. 11, 2002 |
| | As the antiglobalization movement comes to town this week, so does worry that the violence that wracked Genoa could happen again | | | It was the worst antiglobalization violence since the makeshift movement's birth in Seattle in 1999, and it even led some cloistered world leaders to consider rethinking those lavish international summits. | | | But there is reason to believe that Florence won't be another Genoa. |
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http://time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901021111-386914,00.html
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| Â | Antiglobalization takes new tack with IMF protest |
| | Antiglobalization gained strength in some circles after the demise of major U.S. companies like Enron and WorldCom gave credence to activists' wariness of corporate power. | | | Recent criticisms by Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs and former presidential advisor Joseph Stiglitz have thrown academic weight behind the notion that the IMF and World Bank foster disruption in places they are meant to help. | | | Some activists say the next antiglobalization push will be from groups within the developing world fighting privatization of utilities like electricity, telephones, and water. |
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| Â | Brazil 2001 -- What I Learned from the World Social Forum |
| | I was able to connect individually with some of the women working on antiglobalization, and hope that our women¹s action in Quebec City in April will bring our issues more to the forefront. | | | There is no substitute for water; therefore there must be a limit to private ownership and control of water resources. | | | The main morning panels, however, tended to be quite male dominated, and there was much talk of the need for an even stronger focus on women. |
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| Â | antiglobalization protests in Trieste |
| | These protests, in difference to the previous antiglobalization protests, were loud but mostly peaceful and passed without any major clashes with the police, although some smoke bombs were thrown at security forces. | | | On the 4th of March protests were held in two border cities, Italian city Gorizia and Slovenian city Nova Gorica. |
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| Â | The Mac Observer - Antiglobalization Proponents Use Apple Technologies To Film Protests |
| | Other sites are invited to link to any aspect of this site provided that all content is presented in its original form and is not placed within another. | | | The instruments of their documentary efforts are technologies developed by one of the very companies that has sometimes been the object of protest, Apple. | | | Pui-Wing Tam, a journalist who has covered Apple related events for the Wall Street Journal in the past, has penned a piece about the efforts of antiglobalization forces to disseminate their message to each other through the Internet with digital video. |
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| Â | Extremism in America: Introduction |
| | opportunistic support of the antiglobalization movement and of the Palestinian cause by some on the far right; |
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http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/default.asp
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| Â | SEIU and Antiglobalization Protesters |
| | The threat of a Seattle-style mass action by radical and student activist groups lead cleaning companies in Boston to settle with its contract fight with Service Employees International Union and ended a several week strike. | | | How Labor Bureaucrats Exploited the Antiglobalization Movement & How To Not Get Fooled Again This Year - Monday, February 17, 2003, by an Anonymous SEIU Staffer | | | In 2002, an important event happened in the history of the antiglobalization movement. |
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http://haywood.iww.org/organize/strategy/SEIU250a.shtml
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| Â | Antiglobalization Woodstock on the road to Cancun |
| | Tens of thousands of people, young, old and in-between, [August 8] heeded the call of organizations opposed to the way the global commerce is being reorganized and gathered on this sun-baked, wind-swept plateau in southwest France [Causse Du Larzac] to discuss ways influence the coming round of World Trade Organization talks in Cancún, Mexico, in | | | JOHN TAGLIBUE, NEW YOUR TIMES: Call it a summer camp for antiglobalization crusaders. |
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| Â | Re: What happens if they purge us from the antiglobalization movement? |
| | And if the USA wants to rage abroad and repress at home, why the European Union has quietly started a system of monthly meetings with Russia to discuss defence and foreign policy. | | | They should be pleased there are such moderate and far-sighted people in the movement. | | | Subject: Re: What happens if they purge us from the antiglobalization movement? |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg62093.html
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| Â | ★ Reviews of books about Chiapas |
| | If you want to know more about Chiapas, beyond the mainstream media blackout, this IS the book. | | | You will understand why the antiglobalization protests perhaps have their roots in that Jan. 1, 1994. |
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http://mexico.vacationbookreview.com/Chiapas/
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| Â | The Elegant Variation: THE GREAT ANTIGLOBALIZATION NOVEL |
| | Slate rounds up some views of Robert Newman's "frankly ideological" novel The Fountain at the Center of the World. | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference THE GREAT ANTIGLOBALIZATION NOVEL : |
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http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2004/03/the_great_antig.html
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