Anti-globalization

Copenhagen: An Anti-Globalization Movement Comes of Age

The book is a fascinating account of what really happened in Seattle, but when I spoke to David Solnit, the direct-action guru who helped engineer the shutdown, I found him less interested in reminiscing about 1999 than in...

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Mercer Blasted APEC Protesters with Pepper Spray

Commission slammed Mounties' hair trigger use of force at 1997 summit. And one of the faces in that advancing line of Mounties belonged to Cpl. Gary Russell "Bud" Mercer, now the top police officer in charge of maintaining...

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Ten Years After Seattle

When activists from around the world took to the streets of Pittsburgh in late September to protest the gathering of the Group of Twenty nations (G-20), they were not only putting the new administration in Washington on notice...

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Is the G-8 Obsolete?: Merkel Favors G-20 to Tackle World's Problems

Italy preparing to host the G-8 summit next week, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that the G-20 is her preferred forum for tackling global problems. Germany's leading anti-globalization group Attac agrees. The group is...

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