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

[Liza Featherstone]

Also, a lot -- even most -- of the "anti-globalization" activists have been
actively protesting the war, and bringing to that movement an
anti-imperialist, social justice consciousness, as well as playful
sensibility, creative tactics, confrontational energy, etc. I think for a
lot of people, protesting the war is sort of inseparable from protesting
things like the WEF, it's just that even more people participate in the
anti-war protests.

Liza 


> From: Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:20:41 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Whither the "Anti-Globalization" Movement? Re: Raimondo on WWP
> 
> 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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