Confronting Capitalism Dispatches from a Global Movement

by Burton-Rose, Daniel; Yuen, Eddie; Katsiaficas, George

• ISBN13: 9781932360028
• ISBN10: 1932360026
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-03
• Publisher: Soft Skull Press

Summary

An introduction to anti-globalization activities discusses such events as the999 uprising against the World Trade Organization, linking such protests tother uprisings in anti-capitalist history while addressing questions abouton-violence tactics and the efficacy of NGOs. Reprint.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Eddie Yuen	vii
Internationalism Against Globalization: A Map of Resistance
James Davis, Paul Rowley, and Eddie Yuen	xxx
A Protestography
Thatcher Collins	xxxiv
Part I: Roots of the Movement
Seattle Was Not the Beginning
George Katsiaficas	3	(8)
Zapatismo and Global Struggle
Manuel Callahan	11	(8)
Photographs
Emily Abendroth	19	(2)
Scaling the Heights to Seattle
David Kubrin	21	(10)
Part II: Crashing the Summits
World Trashed Organization!
Schnews	31	(2)
A Global Carnival of the Dispossesed
Katherine Ainger	33	(3)
The Globalization of Resistance
Mark Laskey	36	(10)
In Praise of the Seattle Coalition
Eliot Katz	46	(2)
Seattle Diary
Jeffrey St. Clair	48	(24)
Anarkids and Hypocrites
Barbara Ehrenreich	72	(3)
Seeds of a Movement
Stanley Aronowitz	75	(7)
Color BIInd
Andrew Hsiao	82	(4)
Prague 2000: The People's Battle
Boris Kagarlitsky	86	(16)
Art
Eric Drooker	102	(2)
Infernal Pain in Prague
Pol Potlatch	104	(5)
Holidays in the Sun
Ramor Ryan	109	(6)
Photographs
Leticia Velasquez	115	(2)
The Charming Outcome of the Cancun Peace Talks
Writer's Bloc	117	(5)
Cancun: The Collapse of the Neoliberal Offensive
Immanuel Wallerstein	122	(4)
Something Did Start in Quebec City
Cindy Millstein	126	(8)
And Balanced With This Life, This Death
Ramor Ryan	134	(8)
Genoa and the Antiglobalization Movement
Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis	142	(12)
Growing Through Daring, Forgetting Through Fear
Carwil James	154	(5)
Contra Cumbre in Quito
Daniel Burton-Rose	159	(8)
Part III: We are Everyone? NGOs, Social Forums, and Problems of Reresentation
This Is What Bureaucracy Looks Like
James Davis	167	(13)
Another Forum Is Possible
Ezequiel Adamovsky	180	(3)
On Populism and the Antiglobalization Movement
James O'Connor	183	(13)
Seattle '99
Eric Krebbers and Merjin Schoenmaker	196	(6)
Fascists for Che
Nick Mamatas	202	(2)
Shutting Us Out
Kristine Wong	204	(11)
Peoples' Global Action
Sophie Style	215	(7)
Anti-Europeanism and Anti-Americanism
Michael Hardt	222	(2)
Interview with Barbara Epstein
Douglas Sevington and Chris Dixon	224	(11)
Part IV: Facts the Ground-The Hidden Topography of Revolt
Why Not Show Off About the Best Things?
Wu Ming	235	(8)
Confronting Empire
Aruridhati Rov	243	(4)
Out of the Ordinary
Naomi Klein	247	(14)
Resistance in Peru
Eric Schwartz	261	(5)
Standing Challenges to Capitalism in the Balkans
Shore Meckfessel	266	(9)
Apology for the Algerian Insurrection
Jaime Semprun	275	(3)
Flare Up!
Erin Volheim	278	(4)
Testimonies and Declarations
Women Speak Out	282	(4)
Rattling the Chains of Global Apartheid
Jeff Conant	286	(6)
Insurgent Chinese Workers and Peasants
John Gulick	292	(17)
Part V: Articulating Resistance
Activistism: Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian Parenti	309	(6)
Art
Josh MacPhee	315	(2)
The Meaning of Seattle
Noam Chomsky	317	(11)
Carnival to Commons
Dorothy Kidd	328	(11)
The Direct Action Dividend
Rachel Brahinsk	339	(4)
Neither Their War Nor Their Peace
Retort	343	(4)
The Revenge of the Concept
Brian Holmes	347	(20)
Art
Kevin Harris	367	(2)
Spiritual Warfare
Hakim Bey	369	(6)
A Short Personal History of the Global Justice Movement
L.A. Kauffman	375
Glossary
Iain Boal	389	(16)
Contributors	405