<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [lbo-talk] Alterglobalization (was Beyond Globopho</title></head><body> <div>In Doug's NATION article he wrote:</div> <div><font face="Charcoal" size="-2" color="#000000">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.</font></div> <div><br></div> <div>"Antiglobalization" is indeed the wrong word.  The European</div> <div>Social Forum now meeting in Paris with enormous success</div> <div>and very favorable media coverage (to judge by France 2's</div> <div>"Le Journal", broadcast daily on NYC Channel 25 at 7PM)</div> <div>is characterized, rightly, as *Alterglobalist*, and its</div> <div>central slogan is "Another World is Possible."  The</div> <div>interpopular solidarity is very real--the group's moral</div> <div>figurehead, Jose Bove, made headlines with his</div> <div>denunciation of Chirac's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy</div> <div>for his racist laws  aimed at turning France's housing</div> <div>projects (with their large thirld-world-ancestry</div> <div>youthg populations) into "concentration camps."</div> </body> </html>