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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872864200 ISBN 13: 9780872864207

Verlag: City Lights Publishers, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

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• Verlag: City Lights Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0872864200
• ISBN 13: 9780872864207
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512
• Herausgeber: Solnit David
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