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

Authors: David Solnit
ISBN-13: 9780872864207, ISBN-10: 0872864200
Format: Paperback
Publisher: City Lights Books
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David Solnit

Book Synopsis

A post-9/11 look at the new radicalism that has captured the imagination of activists worldwide.

	Introduction - the new radicalism : uprooting the system and building a better world
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
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
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