A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?

by Tom Mertes (Editor), Walden Bello (Contribution by), Jose Bove (Contribution by), Bernard Cassen (Contribution by), David Graeber (Contribution by)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859844687
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	01/17/2004
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.49(w) x 8.29(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Walden Bello is a political activist and Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University of the Philippines in Manila, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South, a policy research institute based in Bangkok and for which he was the Founding Director. He was previously executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) in Oakland, California and was educated at Princeton University. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2003, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, whose website describes him as “one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalization, combining the roles of intellectual and activist.” Bello is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute (based in Amsterdam), and is a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus. In March 2008 he was named Outstanding Public Scholar for 2008 by the International Studies Association. Bello is the author of Deglobalization: Ideas for a New Global Economy, Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty and Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at the Nation Institute and author of The Shock Doctrine.

Emir Sader is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of São Paolo and Director of the Latin American Social Science Research Council (CLACSO).

João Pedro Stédile is an advocate for agrarian reform in Brazil, both as a writer and as a leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), of which he was a co-founder. His numerous publications include the three-volume A Questão Agraria no Brasil.

Immanuel Wallerstein is director of the Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York. His books include a three-volume study, The Modern World-System, Historical Capitalism, and, cowritten with Etienne Balibar, Race, Nation, Class.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Southern Voices
	The Hourglass of the Zapatistas	3
	Brazil's Landless Battalions	17
	The Global South	49
	Monsoon Risings	71
	Cancel the Debt	94
	Sparks in the Township	111
	Northern Voices
	A Farmers' International?	137
	Inventing ATTAC	152
	Raising a Ruckus	175
	Students Against Sweatshops	192
	The New Anarchists	202
	Analytics
	Reclaiming the Commons	219
	Today's Bandung?	230
	Grass-roots Globalism	237
	Beyond Civil Society	248
	New Revolts Against the System	262
	Notes on Contributors	275
	Acknowledgements	277
	Index	279