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This is the story of Jose Bove, the radical French farmer who led a
protest into the town of Millau and dismantled, to cheering crowds,
the new McDonalds. Now a national hero in France, he has become a
leading figure in the global anti-capitalist protests, famed not
only for his passion for politics but also for his Roquefort
cheese. For Bove the struggle against multinational and corporate
industry, which he has been involved in since 1968, is also a
struggle against what he calls malbuffe, horrible nosh. In France
good food and good politics have proved an irresistible mixture.
A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the
mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization.
Leading theorists and activists-the Zapatistas' Subcomandante
Marcos, Chittaroopa Palit from the Indian Narmada Valley dam
protests, Soweto anti-privatization campaigner Trevor Ngwane,
Brazilian Sem Terra leader Joao Pedro Stedile, and many
more-discuss their personal formation as radicals, the history of
their movements, their analyses of globalization, and the nuts and
bolts of mobilizing against a US-dominated world system. Explaining
how the Global South and the experience of indigenous peoples have
provided such a dynamic and practical inspiration, the contributors
describe the roles anarchism and direct democracy have played, the
contributions and limitations of the World Social Forum at Porto
Alegre as a coordinating focus, and the effects of and responses to
the economic downturn, September 11, and Washington's war on
terror. Their statements, at once personal and visionary, offer a
dazzling new insight into the political imagination of the global
resistance movements.
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