The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization,9781887128667

The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization

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ISBN13: 9781887128667
ISBN10: 1887128662
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): Pgw
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Summary

The 1999 World Trade Organization conference in Seattle sparked significant clashes between government and corporate forces and activists. This anthology thoroughly documents the event and includes essays by such authors as Alexander Cockburn and Medea Benjamin.

Table of Contents

I. A Gathering Storm
Introduction
3(18)
Eddie Yuen
Who Needs the WTO? The Surrealist Movement in America
21(4)
Revolt of the Globalized
Internationalism Against Globalization
25(4)
James Davis
Paul Rowley
Seattle Was Not the Beginning
29(8)
George Katsiaficas
Zapatsimo and the Politics of Solidarity
37(4)
Manuel Callahan
Migrants
41(6)
Associazionne Ya Basta!
Resisting Global Capitalism in India
47(6)
Jaggi Singh
Roots of the Movement
Not Your Parents' Protest
53(6)
Barbara Epstein
Scaling the Heights of Seattle
59(10)
David Kubrin
Reclaiming the Streets, Then the World
Germany's Autonomen
69(4)
George Katsiaficas
World Trashed Organization! A SchNEWS Correspondent
73(4)
Global Carnival Against Capital
77(6)
Katherine Ainger
II. N30 Aftermath
The Globalization of Resistance
83(10)
Mark Laskey
So Who Did Win in Seattle? Liberals Rewrite History
93(6)
Alexander Cockburn
Jeffrey St. Clair
Anarkids and Hypocrites
99(4)
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Breakdown Inside the Ministerial
103(6)
Paul Richmond
Rebellion and Repression
A Place for Rage
109(6)
Rachel Neumann
N30 Communique ACME Collective
115(6)
Imagine
121(4)
Geov Parrish
Who Are Those Masked Anarchists?
125(6)
L.A. Kauffman
Jail Solidarity in Seattle
131(8)
Kari Lydersen
Police State Targets the Left
139(14)
Jim Redden
Mass Action Since Seattle
153(22)
George Lakey
III. Uneasy Alliances
This Is What Bureaucracy Looks Like
175(8)
Jim Davis
The Meaning of Seattle
183(12)
Noam Chomsky
Seeds of a Movement
195(8)
Stanley Aronowitz
Together with the Right Against Globalization?
Millenium Round of the WTO Under Fire From Both the Left and Right
203(6)
Alain Kessi
Seattle `99: Wedding Party of the Left and Right?
209(6)
Eric Krebbers
Merijn Schoenmaker
The Showdown Before Seattle
215(10)
Kristine Wong
Spark, Fire and Burning Coals
225(12)
Stephanie Guilloud
IV. The Movement So Far
Where Was the Color at A16?
237(4)
Colin Rajah
Mayday Diary
241(6)
Jay Griffiths
The Battle of Philadelphia
247(4)
David Lindorff
Throwing Away the Key
251(2)
David Lindorff
Prague 2000: The People's Battle
253(16)
Boris Kagarlitsky
Infernal Pain In Prague
269(6)
pol potlash
fran harris
paul hawkin
Direct Action Convergences Y2K
275(8)
Andrea del Moral
Holidays in the Sun
283(6)
Ramor Ryan
Genova and the Antiglobalization Movement
289(12)
Silvia Federici
George Caffentzis
And Balanced With This Life, This Death
301(10)
Ramor Ryan
V. Watershed: Towards a New Movement
The Vision Thing
311(8)
Naomi Klein
Is there an Alternative to Capitalist Globalization?
319(8)
George Katsiaficas
New Movements
The New Student Movement
327(8)
Liza Featherstone
An Experiment in Media Democracy
335(4)
Jeffrey Perlstein
A New Movement on the Horizon
339(4)
John Zerzan
Color Blind
343(4)
Andrew Hsiao
From Seattle to South Central
347(6)
Juan Gonzalez
Spiritual Warfare
353(6)
Hakim Bey
On Populism and the Antiglobalist Movement
359(12)
James O'Connor
Glossary 371(15)
Iain Boal
Notes on Contributors 386(5)
Resources 391(1)
Index 392

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