Global justice movement
The global justice movement is a network of
Movement of movements
The global justice movement describes the loose collections of individuals and groups—often referred to as a “
The movement is often labeled the
Important organizational pillars of the movement are Via Campesina, the family farmers' international; Peoples' Global Action, a loose collection of often youthful groups (NB the apostrophe correctly indicates involvement of peoples, rather than people); Jubilee 2000, the Christian-based movement for relieving international debt; Friends of the Earth, the environmentalist international; and some think-tanks like Focus on the Global South and Third World Network,[5] as well as some large internationalist and transnational trade union organisations.[6] Participants include worldwide student groups, NGOs, trade unions, faith-based and peace groups, and publications such as New Internationalist. A loose coordination of the movement is taking place on the Social Forums. However, although formal power is often situated in the global South, the resources of North-based NGOs give these disproportionate power to often informally marginalize popular organizations from the South.[7]
International solidarity
The global justice movement claims to place a significant emphasis on transnational solidarity uniting activists in the
See also
- 1999 Seattle WTO protests
- Anarchism
- Anti-globalization
- Alter-globalization
- Democratic globalization
- Global citizens movement
- Global justice
- Global Justice (organization)
- Rule of law
- Rule According to Higher Law
- World Social Forum / European Social Forum
Notes
- ^ Tom Mertes, "A Movement of Movements", New York: Verso, 2004
- ^ Kate Milberry: Geeks and Global Justice: Another (Cyber)World is Possible 2009 geeksandglobaljustice.com
- ^ della Porta, D. 2005. “The Social Bases of the Global Justice Movement: Some Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Evidence from the First European Social Forum.” Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper No. 21.Geneva: UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development).
- doi:10.18848/1835-4432/CGP/v02i03/40630. Archived from the originalon 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ Ruth Reitan: Global Activism, Routledge 2007
- ^ "The Construction of a Trans-European Labour Movement, Capital & Class, February 2011, by Daniel Jakopovich". Archived from the original on 2020-03-14. Retrieved 2013-05-26.
- ^ Jai Sen, Peter Waterman, World Social Forum – Challenging Empires Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. Black Rose 2008
- ^ See for instances criticisms of how Northern donors and NGOs have determined African participation in the World Social Forum at Brief Reflection on World Social Forum 2007 (Kenya, Nairobi) by Mngxitama and David Ntseng. World Social Forum, 2007-03-06
- ^ "Farewell to the World Social Forum?". Common Dreams. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
Further reading
- Paul Kingsnorth, One No, Many Yeses: a journey to the heart of the global resistance movement. London: Free Press, 2003.[ISBN missing]
- Alex Callinicos, An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto. London: Polity, 2003.[ISBN missing]
- Notes from Nowhere, We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism. London: Verso, 2003.[ISBN missing]
- Gelder, Melinda, Meeting the Enemy, Becoming a Friend. Boulder: Bauu Press, 2006.[ISBN missing]
- Hadden, J. Tarrow, S., Spillover or Spillout? The Global Justice Movement in the United States after 9/11, Mobilization, 2007, Vol. 12; No. 4, pp. 359–376, online
- David Solnit, Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.[ISBN missing]
- della Porta, Donatella, The Global Justice Movement: Cross-national And Transnational Perspectives. New York: Paradigm, 2006.[ISBN missing]
- Hosseini, S. A., Alternative Globalizations: An Integrative Approach to Studying Dissident Knowledge in the Global Justice. Movement Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2010.[ISBN missing]
- David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography. Edinburgh; Oakland: AK Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-904859-79-6.
External links
- The Just Third Way
- Origins of the Global Justice Movement, (n.d.: November, 2002?).
- Turning the Trolls to Stone: Strategy for the Global Justice Movement – by Starhawk, July 2003
- Global-net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a Movement of Movements by Donatella della Porta & Lorenzo Mosca. Journal of Public Policy, 25, I, 165–190, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- What is the global justice movement?, (n.d.).
- Conform or Reform? Social Movements and the Mass Media by Michael Barker at Fifth-Estate-Online – International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism. February 2007
- David Graeber's article on Infoshopnews, October 12, 2007