Whither the "Anti-Globalization" Movement? Re: Raimondo on WWP

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Jan 27 09:06:42 PST 2003


At 10:41 AM -0500 1/27/03, Chuck0 wrote:
>The size of ANSWER's first protest here, and the stage they got in
>the media, was due in large part to the organizing work that the MGJ
>and ACC did for the anti-globalization protests, which were then
>disrupted by 9/11.

Terrorist attacks on the US soil to the magnitude of 9/11 may not happen soon and may never happen again, but it is impossible to say that they never will. Is the "anti-globalization" movement to retreat every time terrorists hit the USA?, creating the political vacuum hardly filled by a small number of hardass anarchists, pacifists, and Leninists? Or was the retreat just a one-time thing, a shocked response to an unprecedented and unexpected event?

It became clear that there was something wrong with the dominant ideology of the "anti-globalization" movement, as it allowed itself to be disrupted by terrorists and war-mongers. Has the "anti-globalization" movement overcome the problem? Can we still say that the "anti-globalization" movement exists in the USA? If so, in what form? -- Yoshie

* Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>



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