Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World

by David Solnit (Editor)

Overview

The attacks of September 11, 2001 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 Martínez, Starhawk, Walden Bello, Naomi Klein, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872864207
Publisher:	City Lights Books
Publication date:	06/01/2004
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

David Solnit was a key organizer of the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle. A twenty-year veteran of global justice, anti-war, environmental justice and community struggles, he has worked to popularize the use of direct democracy to build mass movements in the United States and globally. He is a founder of Art and Revolution, which has helped popularize the use of art, street theater and giant puppets as an innovative form of resistance in numerous movements across North America, and from Israel and Palestine to Argentina. He is a trainer in grassroots organizing, direct-action strategy and street theater. He lives and works as a carpenter in Oakland, California.

Table of Contents

	Introduction--The New Radicalism: Uprooting the System and Building A Better World	xi
Section 1	What's the Problem?	1
1.	Indigenous--The Money King Is Only an Illusion	3
2.	Globalization--Our Resistance Is as Transnational as Capital	9
3.	Capital--Global Capitalism versus Global Community	17
4.	Ecology--Global Ecology! Global Democracy! Now!	27
5.	Democracy--Democracy Is Direct	35
6.	Feminism--A Feminist View of Global Justice	45
7.	Race--Racism: The U.S. Creation Myth and Its Premise Keepers	51
8.	Class--The New Enclosures: Planetary Class Struggle	61
9.	Corporate Power--Try This at Home	73
10.	Ruling Class--Behind Enemy Lines: Inside the World Economic Forum	87
11.	September 11--Oil, Globalization, & Islamic Fundamentalism	97
12.	War--Real War and Postmodern Illusions	111
Section 2	How to Change Things	133
13.	Strategy--Strategizing for a Living Revolution	135
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
15.	Zapatismo--What Is Zapatismo? A Brief Definition for Activists	213
16.	Zapatismo--Zapatismo Beyond Chiapas	217
17.	Anti-Capitalism--Radical Politics: Assuming We Refuse, Let's Refuse to Assume	229
18.	Forward Movement--Moving Through the Symbols	249
19.	Prefigurative Politics--Weaving Imagination and Creation: The Future in the Present	263
20.	Reclaim the Cities--From Protest to Popular Power	277
21.	Organizing Communities--Building Neighborhood Movements for Radical Social Change	287
Section 3	Ideas in Action	311
22.	Argentine Rebellion--Que Se Vayan Todos: Argentina's Popular Rebellion	313
23.	Argentina's New Politics--Argentina's New Forms of Resistance	339
24.	Farm Workers--Consciousness + Commitment = Change	347
25.	Housing--The Capitalist City or the Self-Managed City?	361
26.	Prisons--The Other California	381
27.	Poll Tax Rebellion--How One Small Scottish Anarchist Group Toppled the Thatcher Government	397
28.	Anti-Racism--Discovering a Different Space of Resistance: Personal Reflections on Antiracist Organizing	411
29.	Civil Rights--Looking to the Light of Freedom: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement and Thoughts on Anarchist Organizing	427
30.	Solidarity--International Solidarity Movement	447
31.	Street Theater--From Trotsky to Puppets: Other Revolutions Are Possible	457
32.	Italy's Disobedients--Return of the Tortoise: Italy's Antiempire Multitudes	469
33.	Revolution That Listens--The Sound and the Fury: The Invisible Icons of Anticapitalism	481
	Photographers and Artistic Contributors	486