Whither the "Anti-Globalization" Movement?

[Chuck0]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> At 2:20 PM -0500 1/27/03, Chuck0 wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> I'm aware of that, and I've said as much here, but the militant part of 
> the "anti-globalization" movement was a tiny part.  Hence the smallness 
> of S29, 2001.  Putting together hardass anarchists, pacifists, and 
> Leninists, I recall that perhaps 20,000 to 25,000 protesters came to 
> D.C. on that day.

There were only 10,000 in town that day: 2000 for the ACC march and 8000 for 
the ANSWER event.

You are wrong when you say that this turnout reflects the number of militants 
in the anti-globalization movement. It's important to remember that after the 
Mobilization for Global Justice made the rather stupid, blanket statement 
that "all of the protests" had been cancelled, this propmted many local 
groups who had organized buses to cancel their plans. For example, in 
Chicago, all of the buses that had been reserved for the Washington IMF/WB 
protests were cancelled, thus leaving many militants stranded who still 
wanted to come ot D.C. to protest. It's not like separate ACC and MBJ buses 
were being organized from various cities. And the effect of 9/11 can't be 
dismissed in that it shocked a few militants into not making the trip for 
that protest.

Chuck0

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