HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 62: United Steelworkers, North American Free Trade Agreement, Anti-Globalization Movement
11 Apr 2016
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Rosenberg, a date which will live, part ii end. William finnegan, ater seatle: the new ani-globalists, new yorker, april 17, 2000. Liked to call the imf and wto and the world bank the iron triangle of corporate rule. These insituions are frog-marching humanity, along with the rest of the planet, into a toxic money maddened repressive future. Economics and poliics have been kept falsely separate, tradiionally, we"re just trying to drag capital investment decision making out into the public realm. World bank lends money to the governments of poor countries, founded along with. Both insituions have always been dominated by the world"s richest countries, eg. us. Took to streets changing no new round, turn around . Combinaion of strict civil disobedience discipline and protests. Decided that the wto was not on their side in steering the direcion of global trade. Unlikely alliances were cemented here, anarchist facions and others, the united.
