Massive protests have disrupted global summit meetings from Seattle
to Quebec City and from Gothenburg to Genoa. These demonstrations
let the world know that resistance to globalization remains strong
and vibrant. Not as clearly heard, though, are accounts of local
communities organizing popular collective actions to resist those
same institutions and policies of globalization.
Focusing on four countries -- Mexico, Guatemala, United States,
and Canada -- the narratives in this volume tell of peoples'
collective struggles for environmental, economic and social
justice. They deal with: indigenous peoples struggles against
violence and coercion in Guatemala; Guatemalan refugees mobilizing
in exile; environmental education for sustainable agriculture in
Mexico; organizing waste pickers of Mexico; the resistance efforts
to better working conditions of telemarketing operators; improving
seniors housing; and the ways people of color have taken community
actions to change oppressive environments in New York City.
In all cases the focus is on the meaning and usefulness of
individual acts of resistance and their relationship to collective
action: the ways people cope with difficult working conditions and
how these acts help to change, not only the working conditions, but
the workers themselves.
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