Globalize Liberation

by Kyvig, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780872864207
• ISBN10: 0872864200
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-15
• Publisher: City Lights Books

Summary

The attacks of 9/11 have renewed a hunger for ideas about how to effect change. The strategies and hard-won victories of dedicated activists from global justice and community struggles can provide vision and hope, and in this collection of 33 articles and essays, we hear first-hand accounts from North America, Europe and Latin America. In recent years, thousands have flooded the streets to effectively challenge the global economic system. Globalize Liberation aims to deepen, popularize, update and provide concrete practical ideas for this spirit of resistance and innovation. Contributors include: Betita Martinez, Starhawk, Walden Bello, Naomi Klein, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Midnight Notes Collective, Rage Against the Machine and more. David Solnit is a founder of Art and Revolution, and was a key organizer of the 1998 anti-WTO protests in Seattle.

Table of Contents

Introduction-The New Radicalism: Uprooting the System and Building A Better World	xi
By David Solnit
SECTION 1 WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
1. INDIGENOUS-The Money King Is Only an Illusion	3	(6)
By U'wa Traditional Authorities
2. GLOBALIZATION-Our Resistance Is as Transnational as Capital	9	(8)
By John Jordan
3. CAPITAL-Global Capitalism versus Global Community	17	(10)
By Walden Bello
4. ECOLOGY-Global Ecology! Global Democracy! Now!	27	(8)
By Patrick Reinsborough
5. DEMOCRACY-Democracy Is Direct	35	(10)
By Cindy Milstein
6. FEMINISM-A Feminist View of Global Justice	45	(6)
By Starhawk
7. RACE-Racism: The U.S.Creation Myth and Its Premise Keepers	51	(10)
By Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez
8. CLASS-The New Enclosures: Planetary Class Struggle	61	(12)
By Midnight Notes Collective
9. CORPORATE POWER-Try This at Home	73	(14)
By Jane Anne Morris
10. RULING CLASS-Behind Enemy Lines: Inside the World Economic Forum	87	(10)
By Van Jones
11. SEPTEMBER 11-Oil, Globalization, & Islamic Fundamentalism	97	(14)
By George Caffentzis
12. WAR-Real War and Postmodern Illusions	111	(22)
By Chris Hables Gray
SECTION 2 HOW TO CHANGE THINGS	133	(178)
13. STRATEGY-Strategizing for a Living Revolution	135	(26)
By George Lakey
14. POST-ISSUE ACTIVISM-Decolonizing the Revolutionary Imagination: Values Crisis, the Politics of Reality, and Why There's Going to be a Common-Sense Revolution in This Generation	161	(52)
By Patrick Reinsborough
15. ZAPATISMO-What Is Zapatismo? A Brief Definition for Activists	213	(4)
By Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez and Arnoldo Garcia
16. ZAPATISMO-Zapatismo Beyond Chiapas	217	(12)
By Manuel Callahan
17. ANTI-CAPITALISM-Radical Politics: Assuming We Refuse, Let's Refuse to Assume	229	(20)
By Chris Carlsson
18. FORWARD MOVEMENT-Moving Through the Symbols	249	(14)
By Naomi Klein
19. PREFIGURATIVE POLITICS-Weaving Imagination and Creation: The Future in the Present	263	(14)
By Marina Sitrin
20. RECLAIM THE CITIES-From Protest to Popular Power	277	(10)
By Cindy Milstein
21. ORGANIZING COMMUNITIES-Building Neighborhood Movements for Radical Social Change	287	(24)
By Tom Knoche
SECTION 3 IDEAS INI ACTION	311	(175)
22. ARGENTINE REBELLION-Que Se Vayan Todos: Argentina's Popular Rebellion	313	(26)
By Jennifer Whitney and John Jordan
23. ARGENTINA'S NEW POLITICS-Argentina's New Forms of Resistance	339	(8)
By Patricio McCabe
24. FARM WORKERS-Consciousness + Commitment = Change	347	(14)
By Coalition of Immokalee Workers
25. HOUSING-The Capitalist City or the Self-Managed City?	361	(20)
By Tom Wetzel
26. PRISONS-The Other California	381	(16)
By Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore
27. POLL TAX REBELLION-How One Small Scottish Anarchist Group Toppled the Thatcher Government	397	(14)
An interview by David Solnit with Ramsey Kanaan
28. ANTI-RACISM-Discovering a Different Space of Resistance: Personal Reflections on Antiracist Organizing	411	(16)
By Helen Luu
29. CIVIL RIGHTS-Looking to the Light of freedom: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement and Thoughts on Anarchist Organizing	427	(20)
By Chris Crass
30. SOLIDARITY-International Solidarity Movement	447	(10)
By Rachel Neumann
31. STREETTHEATER-From Trotsky to Puppets: Other Revolutions Are Possible	457	(12)
By Graciela Monteagudo
32. ITALY'S DISOBEDIENTS-Return of the Tortoise: Italy's Antiempire Multitudes	469	(12)
By Keir Milburn
33. REVOLUTION THAT LISTENS-The Sound and the Fury: The Invisible Icons of Anticapitalism	481	(5)
By John Jordan
Photographers and Artistic Contributors	486