The Fight for Everything

THE FIGHT FOR EVERYTHING:
20 Kick-Ass Organizers Talk About the Future of the U.S Movement to Stop Corporate Globalization


--> Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange talks about a world run by lesbian carpenters

--> Kai Lumumba-Barrow from the Student Liberation Action Movement tells you to leave her neighborhood and go talk to your mom

--> Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez from the Institute for MultiRacial Justice breaks down Zapatismo

--> David Solnit of Freedom Rising admits, "You can't just get all your friends and duke it out in the street like you could 500 years ago"

--> Liz Butler from ForestEthics adamantly refuses to learn how to climb stuff and hang banners


As the tear gas clears after yet another global trade summit, it's more clear than ever that mass actions, by themselves will not stop corporate globalization, and that the movement that surfaced in Seattle needs to get bigger--and much more effective.

From Prague to Portland to Porto Alegre, online and on the barricades, people are asking each other, "Which way forward?"

I figured that many of the best ideas will come from those who have been building this movement (or collection of movements) from the ground up. So I asked 20 organizers of the recent protests-- people whose backgrounds and viewpoints are all over the map-- where we should go from here? How does the movement need to change and grow? How can we actually transform the global economic and political order?

I was blown away by all that these folks said. I pulled some of the wisdom from these conversations and built a web site. The result is available at:

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jar67/everything/

check it out! You will not be disappointed.

Justin Ruben
justin.ruben [at] yale.edu