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Ads by Google      Anti-globalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The anti-globalization movement developed in the late twentieth century to combat the globalization of corporate economic activity and the free trade with developing nations that might result from such activity. Members of the anti-globalization movement respond that "growth is good for the poor" is an uncontroversial claim, and yet it misses the main point, which is that neoliberal policies consistent with globalization and capitalism may not actually be causing growth that has beneficial effects for the poor. The anti-globalization movement as it is now known stems from the convergence of these different political experiences when their members began to demonstrate together at international meetings such as the Seattle WTO meeting of 1999 or Genoa G/8 summit in 2001. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-globalization_movement      YCLUSA Online - The Anti-Globalization Movement It is crucial that we remain engaged in and leaders of the anti-globalization movement. We must work to build and support institutions (such as the US labor movement) that could challenge the existing market fundamentalist power structures that benefit from globalization and create the conditions for senseless wars. Globalization is a threat to what we have achieved and what we may achieve in the future and remains a major threat to workers in the United States. http://www.yclusa.org/article/articleview/21/1/10      Nationalism: The True Anti-Globalization Movement - Stormfront White Nationalist Community "Globalization" can be defined as the process of quickening the free, uninhibited movement of goods, services, cultural ideas, and people across national borders. Environmentalism, for example, is one issue area relevant to the globalization issue that the Left bungles. The Left resents that globalization is largely the result of the expansion of capitalism, especially financial capitalism. http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=28750      Global Policy Forum - Globalization Danaher, one of the founders of Global Exchange and a rapid-fire, deep baritone voice of American anti-globalisation, says: "The movement is shifting into educational mode. More importantly for the protest movement, the boards of charitable foundations which have been some of the big givers to critics of international financial institutions, for example, are now wary of being aligned with the critics of capitalism. Global Policy Forum distributes this material without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/define/2910.htm      the landscape of anti-racism in the anti-globalization movement The convergence of movements around generalized anti-corporate perspectives and opposition to Free Trade Agreements has expanded their frameworks to multi-issue analyses, new alliances, international solidarity, and more comprehensive perspectives on the meaning of corporate globalization. Long-term movements such as the Greens and School of the Americas Watch had been paying increasing attention to globalization and international economics during the 1980s and 1990s and converged in Seattle with young environmentalists, anarchists, and student organizers. Reducing first world consumption is certainly not a sufficient strategy for confronting globalization, but it will be part of any plan for global justice, the real cost of which is not the risks we take in the streets but allowing third and fourth world peoples to keep their resources for their own uses. http://www.chapman.edu/~starr/arag5103.htm      World Economic Forum Knowledge Navigator - The Future of the Anti-Globalization Movement Globalization and the modern integrated global economy are here to stay. Support for the movement is growing as people see that ‘trickle down’ and ‘invisible hand’ theories do not deliver benefits equitably, Brey argued. While he has "absolute faith in the ability of global markets to efficiently allocate goods and services," David Dreier, Congressman from California (Republican), USA, conceded: "We are in the midst of a long and difficult challenge and there is much work to do." http://www.weforum.org/site/knowledgenavigator.nsf/Content/_S7636?open      Monthly Review September 2001 Barbara Epstein Though the anti-globalization movement has developed good relations with many trade union activists, it is hard to imagine a firm alliance between labor and the anti-globalization movement without firmer structures of decision-making and accountability than now exist. The influence of anarchism was strongest among radical feminists, in the commune movement, and probably in the Weather Underground and elsewhere in the violent fringe of the anti-war movement. But the movements of the sixties were driven by concerns that were more compatible with an expressive style of politics, with hostility to authority in general and state power in particular. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0901epstein.htm      Anti-corporate Globalization movement Corporate Globalization (that is, the all pervasive conglomeration of multinational corporations setting up factories and openning markets around the world, as well as the erosion and eventual dissintegration of trade barriers so that all countries are incorporated into the "free market system." This corporate globalization is made possible through the aid of treaties like: Predatory lending entities like the IMF and World Bank will then provide funds, but at the expense of a countries natural resources which are then mandated to be utilized to repay the debt. Education and social programs are also reduced under these loans, as the main catch for getting a loan from the IMF or World Bamk is that you have to lower your trade tarriffs and incorporate your economy into the global economy. http://www.esf.edu/org/seac/globaljustice.htm      Theory of the Anti-Globalization Movement This tends to broaden her picture of the anti-globalization movement, given that the most exciting developments in the movement are not always the largest, most influential, or most likely to succeed. Her second category is “globalization from below,” or movements that want to democratize globalization by making governments and corporations accountable to people instead of elites. The movement’s anti-authoritarian, revolutionary character is currently under attack by a informal network of reformists, who want nothing more than to see this movement accommodate itself to the basic structures of the present world. http://www.newformulation.org/1antiglobalization.htm      Beyond Protesting: The Ascending "Anti-Globalization" Movement - Practicalhippie.com There are reasons the globalization movement isn’t being covered very deeply in the mainstream press, though a story about how the movement is "dead" occasionally surfaces. Instead, the issues lie in the unethical and dangerously unsustainable way that economic globalization is being accomplished. This movement has gone mainstream, and now includes church groups, senior citizens, and parents concerned about what commercialism is doing to their kids. http://www.practicalhippie.com/beyond.htm      AlterNet: Globalization: The Anti-globalization Movement Changes Its Tune A movement that crosses all national boundaries, that relies so heavily on electronic communications, that so effectively summons people to come from all over the world to march in the streets of whatever city might be hosting an economic conference was clearly a global one, however vigorously its rhetoric might condemn the evils of globalization. So now, in recognition of this, some of the rhetoric is beginning to shift in the direction of standing against a certain kind of globalization. A nonprofit research, education and action center that offers information on the effects of globalization. http://www.alternet.org/globalization/12423      THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FAIR TRADE / ANTI-GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT By focusing on only globalization and the WTO, IMF, and WB, the AFL-CIO and its allies among the environmental and other NGOs purposely direct attention away from the capitalist system which is the real cause of unemployment, sweatshop and prison labor, racist police terror, and the rise of fascism and imperialist war. The complete lack of popular support for this movement in Tibet is revealed by the fact that it had to base itself in Nepal, and its subsequent complete collapse when the CIA stopped giving it money and arms. It cannot be overcome by either the Free Traders of the WTO or the reformed trade rules and "high road development standards" recently advocated in Davos, Switzerland by Fair Trade spokesperson and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney (14). http://www.plp.org/pamphlets/antiglobal.html      Labor Notes - View from Ontario: How Labor Can Rebuild Anti-Globalization Movement There were always lingering differences between the ways the labor movement and the anti-globalization movement organized. Labor people had always taken issue with the anarchist wing of the anti-globalization movement over “diversity of tactics.” They argued that it allowed demonstrations to be hijacked by those most committed to violent or inappropriate tactics. In Quebec City, large contingents from CUPE (public employees), the Steelworkers, and the CAW marched with the local Quebec labor movement and community and anti-globalization activists. http://www.labornotes.org/archives/2002/08/d.html      Is Zionism the new enemy of the anti-globalization movement? At the recent huge demonstrations in Italy, where the anti-globalization movement probably is the strongest, Palestine seems to have become the central point of reference. To participate in the 2003 elections in Belgium the AEL is now building a common list with the Stalinist PvdA, the Trotzkyte SAP, and anti-globalization and ecology activists. Through this analysis the AEL makes the potential anti-Semitism in the concept "globalization" manifest: in the end the Jews are the biggest problem. http://www.gebladerte.nl/30046v01.htm      The Dark Side That Threatens The Anti-globalization Movement - Stormfront White Nationalist Community Anti-globalization demonstrators identify themselves as part of a non-violent, democratic movement that opposes global governance, neo-colonial pillaging, and organizations like the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the G8. When [the World Church is] speaking of globalization, we're speaking of the Zionist movement, with any number of puppets, or non-Jews working towards it," said Rev. Tom L. Kroenke, a Wyoming member and spokesman who is not ashamed to say he's part of a hate group, over the phone from Wyoming. In June 2002, as the Kananaskis meetings were set to churn, a protest took place called "Showdown at the Hoedown." Anti-globalization activists gathered in Calgary outside an expensive gala for bureaucrats, delegates and media hacks of the G8 summit. http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=40903      Theory of the Anti-Globalization Movement, Part II Although their work helped raise the level of discourse among activists immeasurably, the movement’s common principles remained embodied in a sensibility and shared activist experience rather than in clear political statements. Expressions of the movement’s internal identity can be found in essays throughout the book, although the articulation of this theme tends to be more diffuse than others (which makes sense, given that the collection’s purpose is to constitute the movement). This suggests that the movement is in a contradictory position in which the source of its popularity prevents it from growing and therefore realizing the potentials that made it so popular to begin with. http://www.newformulation.org/2globalizationmorse.htm      Schism in the Anti-Globalization Movement Any progress made is just as quickly erased when public perception of the anti-globalization movement as a whole is built on images of chaotic protests and violent activists. The movement is noted for its transnational scope in its fight against increasing corporate and capitalist globalization. The cost of allowing this disagreement of tactics to be a permanent schism within the movement is too high. http://www.journalism.ryerson.ca/online/lounge/chaos/jthian.htm      Commentary: Global Goods for the Anti-Globalization Movement The irony of the anti-globalization movement is that the protesters themselves are the beneficiaries of globalization and rely on it to bite the hand that feeds them. I like the way you clearly articulate the value of globalization and debunk the anti-Globalization arguments offered by many. An anti-globalization group called “Anti-Marketing” defines globalization as “the process of exploiting economically weak countries by connecting the economies of the world, forcing dependence on (and ultimately servitude to) the western capitalist machine.” While this formulation may sound extreme, the same basic, perverted understanding of globalization has poisoned the minds of many. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=268      SSRN-Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement by Paul Segerstrom Segerstrom, Paul, "Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement" (December 2003). How should economists be responding to the arguments made by anti-globalization activists? The contents of her influential book No Logo are summarized and some problems with her analysis of globalization are discussed. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=482842      A World Connected - Counter-Capitalism: Inside the Anti-Globalization Movement Harding also writes about the more violent groups, such as the Black Bloc and the Earth Liberation Front, that make up and have tainted parts of the anti-globalization movement. His multi-part series on the anti-globalization movement, sheds new light on a phenomenon that has captured many of our imaginations. Often people think of the anti-globalization movement as a spontaneous reaction against global capitalism. http://www.aworldconnected.org/article.php/250.html      JS Online: Anti-Globalization Movement Quieter Anti-war movements have appeared on some U.S. campuses since President Bush announced his war on terrorism. But the movement has been mostly quiet since terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing thousands. Out of that sense of dislocation and desperation, scary things can develop,'' said Mark Andersen, a ``punk activist'' with Washington-based Positive Force. http://www.jsonline.com/news/attack/ap/oct01/ap-attacks-anti-gl101601.asp      Anti-Globalization, Pro-Peace? The peace movement "does not seem to have the energy or the broad-based support that anti-globalization had," says William Fisher, director of Clark University's Program for International Development. Still, labor leaders have said they remain committed to the agenda pursued by the anti-globalization coalition. Some of the coalition's members have hastily diverted their energies to protesting the US attacks on Afghanistan, but at least one vital player in the movement -- organized labor -- has thrown its support forcefully behind the Bush administration. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2001/10/peace.html      Wired News: Make Hate Not Anti-Globalization Myself, I don't consider myself part of an anti-globalization movement, but of an anti-corporate movement.... This movement is very vocally an anti-racist movement, so for racists to claim they have a role in this movement is utterly ridiculous." "They use 'globalism' as a code word for Zionist world government, which is the racist, anti-Semitic mind that the white supremacists tend to put forward." http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53844,00.html      FT.com - Special Reports / Counter-capitalism A month ago the anti-globalisation movement was preparing its biggest protest ever. The airport lounge on the return from Genoa was full of the movement's hard core. It is also one of a handful of radical activist groups which this year have enjoyed a big lift thanks to Unilever, the consumer goods multinational. http://specials.ft.com/countercap      anti-corporate globalization movement INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER - Washington, DC Mobilize for Global Justice http://www.redandgreen.org/globalization.htm      Anti-globalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The anti-globalization movement developed in the late twentieth century to combat the globalization of corporate economic activity and the free trade with developing nations that might result from such activity. Many nationalist movements, such as the French National Front, are also opposed to globalization, but argue that the alternative to globalization is a protection of the nation-state, sometimes in explicitly racist or fascist terms. Globalization historians claim that dollar dominance has been achieved also by political agreements such as Bretton Woods System and OPEC dollar-only oil trade after the U.S. broke with the gold standard for the dollar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-globalization_movement   (5948 words)      Theory of the Anti-Globalization Movement Her second category is “globalization from below,” or movements that want to democratize globalization by making governments and corporations accountable to people instead of elites. Although the rich and powerful have shaped globalization in their interest thus far (BCS call this “globalization from above”), there is a counter-movement that seeks to reshape our interconnected world in the interests of people and the planet (which BCS call “globalization from below”). BCS’s Globalization from Below is comprehensible because it affirms the basic structure of the present world—that is, capitalism and the nation-state—and is thus written with the clarity and repose of those who have already won. http://www.newformulation.org/1antiglobalization.htm   (3366 words)      YCLUSA Online - The Anti-Globalization Movement We must work to build and support institutions (such as the US labor movement) that could challenge the existing market fundamentalist power structures that benefit from globalization and create the conditions for senseless wars. Globalization is a threat to what we have achieved and what we may achieve in the future and remains a major threat to workers in the United States. Globalization is the removal of barriers to unhindered international trade and capital flow. http://www.yclusa.org/article/articleview/21/1/10   (1018 words)      Journal of Political Ecology Yet the anti-globalization movement has thus far mostly focused on slowing the juggernaut of corporate globalization and resisting the most egregious of governmental and corporate abuses. Big business firms serve as the "agents" of globalization and should, in Starr's view, be considered the primary targets of popular resistance. Globalization itself is treated as symptomatic of a deeper and more insidious disease; namely, the domination of modern political, economic and cultural life by large, powerful, globe-spanning corporations. http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_8/701Skidmore.html   (3239 words)      The American Enterprise: Anti-Globalism = Anti-Americanism Globalization simply means freedom of movement for goods and people, and it is hard to be violently hostile to that. But it was not until after the great explorations of the late fifteenth century and the growth of transatlantic trade that globalization in the modern sense of the term began. According to the anti-globalists, the global marketplace will breed ever-increasing poverty for the profit of an ever-richer minority. http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.18005/article_detail.asp   (2342 words)

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