[lbo-talk] Alterglobalization (was Beyond Globophobia)

[Shane Mage]

In Doug's NATION article he wrote:
Instead of chasing nationalist chimeras, why not go "globalization" 
one better? Many activists in the wrongly named "antiglobalization" 
movement still talk locally, even as they're acting and thinking 
globally. This might be a good time to junk local self-reliance as an 
ideal and embrace a deeply global perspective.

"Antiglobalization" is indeed the wrong word.  The European
Social Forum now meeting in Paris with enormous success
and very favorable media coverage (to judge by France 2's
"Le Journal", broadcast daily on NYC Channel 25 at 7PM)
is characterized, rightly, as *Alterglobalist*, and its
central slogan is "Another World is Possible."  The
interpopular solidarity is very real--the group's moral
figurehead, Jose Bove, made headlines with his
denunciation of Chirac's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy
for his racist laws  aimed at turning France's housing
projects (with their large thirld-world-ancestry
youthg populations) into "concentration camps."
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