A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?

Bys: Tom Mertes, Walden F. Bello (contributor), Bernard Cassen, et al.

Book Overview

A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization. Leading theorists and activists--the Zapatistas' Subcomandante Marcos, Chittaroopa Palit from the Indian Narmada Valley dam protests, Soweto anti-privatization campaigner Trevor Ngwane, Brazilian Sem Terra leader João Pedro Stedile, and many more--discuss their personal formation as radicals, the history of their movements, their analyses of globalization, and the nuts and bolts of mobilizing against a US-dominated world system. Explaining how the Global South and the experience of indigenous peoples have provided such a dynamic and practical inspiration, the contributors describe the roles anarchism and direct democracy have played, the contributions and limitations of the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre as a coordinating focus, and the effects of and responses to the economic downturn, September 11, and Washington's war on terror. Their statements, at once personal and visionary, offer a dazzling new insight into the political imagination of the global resistance movements.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859844685
• ISBN13: 9781859844687
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.1"