Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- The New Transnational Activism
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- Part One Structure, Process, and Actors
- Part Two The Global in the Local
- Part Three Transitional Processes
- Part Four The Local in the Global
- Part Five Transnational Impacts at Home and Abroad
- 10 TRANSNATIONAL IMPACTS ON DOMESTIC ACTIVISM
- 11 TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
- Glossary
- Sources
- Index
11 - TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- The New Transnational Activism
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- Part One Structure, Process, and Actors
- Part Two The Global in the Local
- Part Three Transitional Processes
- Part Four The Local in the Global
- Part Five Transnational Impacts at Home and Abroad
- 10 TRANSNATIONAL IMPACTS ON DOMESTIC ACTIVISM
- 11 TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
- Glossary
- Sources
- Index
Summary
As summer ended in 2001, a range of Washington-based organizations were planning a demonstration against a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (Gillham and Edwards 2003: 91). Made up of a coalition of national and international advocacy groups, church and community organizations, and trade unions and environmental campaigners, they had organized themselves into a coalition, Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ). Their goal was to mount “the latest in a series of high-profile, mass demonstrations since the Battle of Seattle had nearly brought the meetings of the World Trade Organization to a halt in 1999” (p. 92). These two institutions had been targeted by a protest a year earlier, but in the wake of the killing of a young demonstrator in Genoa in July (see Chapter 10), the Washington police were preparing for a much bigger confrontation.
The organizers were prepared as well, with the panoply of electronic communication, face-to-face “spokescouncils,” and radical puppetry that had become familiar in international demonstrations since Seattle. But they were by no means all “global justice” activists, for they varied in character and degree of militancy from advocacy “insiders” to activist “outsiders.” And although their claims ranged from the most global to the very local – remember the “global gardeners” in Chapter 4 – their plans were structured around the focal point of these international institutions.
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- The New Transnational Activism , pp. 201 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005