The thousands of protesters who danced, marched and, in a few cases, got
clubbed by police as they tried to shut down the meetings of the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washi
When we last visited New York Times foreign affairs pundit Thomas Friedman during last year's Seattle protests, he was attacking critics of the antidemocratic World Trade Organization as a
During the eighties many activists in the United States and elsewhere embraced a simple but evocative slogan: "think globally, act locally." The message: In acting at the local level, one needed
Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.
Students heading for DC are bringing more than a toothbrush and a change of underwear.
"Seattle East," "A16," "Mobilization for Global Justice"--by whatever name you call it, a coalition of Teamsters and turtles, students and scholars, church, human rights, consumer and environment
Dear Mafiaboy,
The promise of Seattle was captured in an antic moment observed by one young environmental activist.
The ideological rigidity that governs punditocracy trade debate transcends right/left dichotomies.
As workers and holiday shoppers spilled out of Manhattan's midtown skyscrapers
and stores during rush hour last week, they were confronted with an unusual
sight: Several thousand demonstrators,


