From: Rebecca DeWinter (rdewinter@netzero.net)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 08:35:14 EDT
All,
Prof Robin Broad at AU has just come out with a great new book on civil society movements to resist and reform globalization. More information on it is below. It's a great resource for activists or worth recommending to your professors if you are in school. I have read it and it has a lot of good excerpts from works by social justice activists working towards a more just global economy. Check it out!
Rebecca
Global Backlash
Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy
Edited by Robin Broad
"Global Backlash is essential reading for every citizen of the globe. It lays out a full spectrum of views and--better yet--visions of a more democratic and egalitarian future for all of us who share the planet."
--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
"Robin Broad answers the question usually unasked by the media--'what do these anti-globalist demonstrators want?' She answers it both in the words of their various representative leaders, and in her own clarifying analysis. Highly recommended!"
--Herman Daly, University of Maryland, and co-author of For the Common Good
"Want to understand the most dynamic social movement of our times? Combining scholarship with insider knowledge, Global Backlash connects the dots to put flesh and bones on that movement--a movement committed to the environment, labor, women, indigenous communities, and overall justice."
--Vandana Shiva, author of Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Survival in India
"Global Backlash allows us to understand more clearly the history and content of the current debates about corporate-led economic globalization. But, more than that, it tells what we can do about it--what people are already doing about it!"
--Michael Hardt, Duke University and co-author of Empire
"From Subcomandante Marcos to religious activists, from environmentalists intent on saving virgin forests to students organizing against sweatshops, Global Backlash gives richness and texture to our growing movement. A must read for academics, activists and anyone concerned about the future of our planet."
--Medea Benjamin, Founding Director of Global Exchange and Green Party activist
"Robin Broad's penetrating analysis and magnificent collection of documents showcase the intellectual depth of the movement against corporate-driven globalization."
--Walden Bello, director, Focus on the Global South
"Timed just right! This book will be very welcome required reading in a number of classrooms around the world. The writing is superb, as are the collected readings themselves. I felt like I was reading a mystery novel!"
--Vicki L. Golich, California State University, San Marcos
"Brilliantly edited, this exciting volume gracefully brings together the most illuminating writings....Indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand the full range of discontents caused by corporate globalization, and what some cures might be."
--Richard Falk, Princeton University
Contributors:
Academic Consortium on International Trade, Dean Acheson, Action Canada Network, Alliance for Responsible Trade, Kofi Annan, Bama Athreya, Maude Barlow, Walden Bello, Robin Broad, Patrick J. Buchanan, Gary Burtless, John Cavanagh, Suzanne Charle, Frank Church, Citizens Trade Campaign, Terry Collingsworth, Joseph Collins, Lance Compa, Michael Conroy, Maria Lorena Cook, Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y de la Vida, Alan Durning, Rose Benz Ericson, Forest Stewardship Council, Homero Fuentes, Jacques B. Gelinas, Steven Gorelick, Angela Hale, Pharis Harvey, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Zahara Heckscher, Hemispheric Social Alliance, Rohini Hensman, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, International Forum on Globalization, Jubilee South, Martin Khor, Francis Moore Lappe, Robert Z. Lawrence, Jerome I. Levinson, Robert E. Litan, Subcomandante Marcos, Iqbal Masih, Allan H. Meltzer, Todd Merrifield, Mexican Action Network on Free Trade, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, Jeremy Rifkin, Walter Rodney, Robin Round, Scholars Against Sweatshop Labor, Robert J. Shapiro, Dennis Smith, Levi Strauss & Co., John J. Sweeney, Wada Taw-il, Blair Underwood, United Nations General Assembly, United States of America, and Mark Weisbrot.
Robin Broad is associate professor of international development at American University in Washington, D.C.
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March 2002 || 352 pages
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