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

[Chuck0]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 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?

Sure, the anti-globalization movement is alive and well in the U.S.

You could say that one part of the anti-globalization movement retreated 
after 9/11, but not the part I'm part of. We went ahead with a militant 
anti-capitalist march in Washington just two weeks after 9/11, when some 
people were saying that protest should lie low. My attitude was, if Wall 
Street is open for business a week after the attacks, then why should we get 
back to the business of doing anti-business? Oh, and we also organized a 
response to the WEF meeting when that was moved to New York City. That's 
hardly evidence of the movement putting its head in the sand.

Chuck0

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