A Movement of Movements : Is Another World Really Possible?

Tom Mertes; Walden F. Bello (contributor); Bernard Cassen; Jose Bove

ISBN 10: 1859844685 / ISBN 13: 9781859844687

Published by Verso Books, 2004

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Authors: 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).

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.

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.

José Bové farms in the Aveyron, France.

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Movement of Movements : Is Another World ...
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good