Another World Is Possible
Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum
Published on 1. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
364 pages
978-1-84277-329-1 (ISBN)
Description
We are constantly bludgeoned into believing that there are no alternatives to globalization -- with its giant corporations in the driver's seat, dominating a 'free' market in reality shaped in accordance with their dictates. But there are alternatives. And the movement for global justice and solidarity is giving voice to them.
This collection brings together the most important themes and voices which these rapidly growing, diverse citizens' movements have expressed at the World Social Forum which gathers each year in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The global movement for justice and solidarity has become the major opposition to capital's contemporary globalization.
Its power emerges from the multiplicity of activists and organizations that make it up. But its diversity also poses a challenge -- how to articulate their different agendas into a shared set of proposals for alternative social models to neoliberal globalization. This book assembles some of their most constructive thinking around the key issues:
- Production for profit versus production for people
- Biohegemony versus biodiversity
- Westernization versus cultural diversity
- Corporate rule versus civil society
- Neoliberalism versus the reinvention of democracy
Here is a very different human -- and humane -- future. It is up to all of us, as active citizens, to think further about what it could be like, and to struggle against vested interests in order to achieve it.
This collection brings together the most important themes and voices which these rapidly growing, diverse citizens' movements have expressed at the World Social Forum which gathers each year in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The global movement for justice and solidarity has become the major opposition to capital's contemporary globalization.
Its power emerges from the multiplicity of activists and organizations that make it up. But its diversity also poses a challenge -- how to articulate their different agendas into a shared set of proposals for alternative social models to neoliberal globalization. This book assembles some of their most constructive thinking around the key issues:
- Production for profit versus production for people
- Biohegemony versus biodiversity
- Westernization versus cultural diversity
- Corporate rule versus civil society
- Neoliberalism versus the reinvention of democracy
Here is a very different human -- and humane -- future. It is up to all of us, as active citizens, to think further about what it could be like, and to struggle against vested interests in order to achieve it.
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'A fascinating and valuable reflection of political reality' - Roger S. Gottlieb, TikkunMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84277-329-1 (9781842773291)
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Persons
Prof. William F. Fisher is Director of International Development, Community Planning and Environment (IDCE) at Clark University, USA.
Thomas Ponniah was an Intern with the WSF Executive Secretariat from January 2002 to June 2002. He is a founding member of the Worcester Global Action Network in Massachusetts (an activist group that is part of the global justice/anti-globalization movement).
Thomas Ponniah was an Intern with the WSF Executive Secretariat from January 2002 to June 2002. He is a founding member of the Worcester Global Action Network in Massachusetts (an activist group that is part of the global justice/anti-globalization movement).
Content
Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Introduction: The World Social Forum and the Reinvention of Democracy
Thomas Ponniah and William F. Fisher
PART I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
1. External Debt
Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development
Eric Toussaint and Arnaud Zacharie (Committee for the Annulment of Third World Debt)
2. Africa/Brazil
Conference Synthesis
Jacques d'Adesky (Facilitator)
3. Financial Capital
Controls on Financial Capital
ATTAC-France
4. International Trade
Conference Synthesis
Bernard Cassen, ATTAC (Facilitator)
5. Transnational Corporations
Issues and Proposals
Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch and Karolo Aparicio, Global Exchange
6. Labour
A Strategic Perspective on the International Trade Union Movement for the 21st Century
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
A Global Strategy for Labour
Jeff Faux (Economic Policy Institute)
7. A Solidarity Economy:
Resist and Build
Economic Solidarity Group of Quebec
Conference Synthesis
Sandra Quintela (Institute of Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone) (Facilitator)
PART II: Access to Wealth and Sustainability
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
8. Environment and Sustainabity
The Living Democracy Movement: Alternatives to the Bankruptcy of Globalization
Vandana Shiva, Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Conference Synthesis
Sara Larrain, International Forum on Globalization, Chile (Facilitator)
9. Water - A Common Good
Conference Synthesis
Glenn Switkes, International Rivers Network, USA, and Elias Diaz Pena, Rios Vivos/Amigos de la Tierra, Paraguay (Facilitators)
10. Knowledge, Copyright and Patents
Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Gap
OXFAM, UK
Conference Synthesis
Francois Houtart, Tricontinental Centre (Facilitator)
11. Medicine, Health, AIDS
Conference Synthesis
Sonia Correa, IBASE and DAWN Network (Facilitator)
12. Food
People's Right to Produce, Feed Themselves and Exercise their Food Sovereignty
APM World Network
13. Cities, Urban Populations
Conference Synthesis
Erminia Maricato (Facilitator)
14. Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Commission Statement
Dionito Makuxi, Pina Tembe, Simiao Wapixana, Joel Pataxo, Lurdes Tapajos, Luiz Titia Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae
Conference Synthesis
Paulo Maldos, Centre for Popular Education, Brazil (Facilitator)
PART III: The Affirmation of Civil Society and Public Space
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
15. The Media
Democratization of Communications and the Media
Osvaldo Leon, Agencia Latinoamerica de Informacion
16. Education
Conference Synthesis
Bernard Charlot, World Forum on Education and Paul Belanger, International Council on Adult Education (Facilitators)
17. Culture
Cultural Diversity, Cultural Production and Identity
Fatma Alloo, Luiza Monteiro, Aureli Argemi, Imruh Bakari, Xavi Perez
18. Violence
Violence Against Women: The 'other world' must act
World March of Women
Conference Synthesis on the Culture of Violence and Domestic Violence
Fatima Mello, ABONG, Brazil (Facilitator)
19. Discrimination and Intolerance
Combating Discrimination and Intolerance
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, India
Conference Synthesis
Lilian Celiberti, Articulacion Feminista Marcosur (Facilitator)
20. Migration and the Traffic in People
The Contradictions of Globalization
Lorenzo Prencipe, Centre for Documentation and Research on International Migration, Paris
21. The Global Civil Society Movement
Discussion Document
Latin American Social Observatory (OSAL), Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO)
Conference Synthesis
Vittorio Agnoletto, Genoa Social Forum (Facilitator)
Part IV: Political Power and Ethics in the New Society
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
22. The International Architecture of Power
International Organizations and the Architecture of World Power
Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
Conference Synthesis
Teivo Teivainen, Network Institute for Global Democratization (Facilitator)
23. Militarism and Globalization
Conference Synthesis
Marcela Escribano, Alternatives, Canada (Facilitator)
24 Human Rights
Conference Synthesis on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Maria Luisa Mendonca, Social Network for Justice and Human Rights (Facilitator)
25. Sovereignty
Sovereignty, Nation, Empire
Daniel Bensaid, University of Paris (St-Denis)
26. Democracy
Participatory Democracy
M. P. Parameswaran, Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad
27. Values
Values of a New Civilization
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Acknowledgements
Foreword - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Introduction: The World Social Forum and the Reinvention of Democracy
Thomas Ponniah and William F. Fisher
PART I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
1. External Debt
Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development
Eric Toussaint and Arnaud Zacharie (Committee for the Annulment of Third World Debt)
2. Africa/Brazil
Conference Synthesis
Jacques d'Adesky (Facilitator)
3. Financial Capital
Controls on Financial Capital
ATTAC-France
4. International Trade
Conference Synthesis
Bernard Cassen, ATTAC (Facilitator)
5. Transnational Corporations
Issues and Proposals
Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch and Karolo Aparicio, Global Exchange
6. Labour
A Strategic Perspective on the International Trade Union Movement for the 21st Century
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
A Global Strategy for Labour
Jeff Faux (Economic Policy Institute)
7. A Solidarity Economy:
Resist and Build
Economic Solidarity Group of Quebec
Conference Synthesis
Sandra Quintela (Institute of Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone) (Facilitator)
PART II: Access to Wealth and Sustainability
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
8. Environment and Sustainabity
The Living Democracy Movement: Alternatives to the Bankruptcy of Globalization
Vandana Shiva, Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Conference Synthesis
Sara Larrain, International Forum on Globalization, Chile (Facilitator)
9. Water - A Common Good
Conference Synthesis
Glenn Switkes, International Rivers Network, USA, and Elias Diaz Pena, Rios Vivos/Amigos de la Tierra, Paraguay (Facilitators)
10. Knowledge, Copyright and Patents
Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Gap
OXFAM, UK
Conference Synthesis
Francois Houtart, Tricontinental Centre (Facilitator)
11. Medicine, Health, AIDS
Conference Synthesis
Sonia Correa, IBASE and DAWN Network (Facilitator)
12. Food
People's Right to Produce, Feed Themselves and Exercise their Food Sovereignty
APM World Network
13. Cities, Urban Populations
Conference Synthesis
Erminia Maricato (Facilitator)
14. Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Commission Statement
Dionito Makuxi, Pina Tembe, Simiao Wapixana, Joel Pataxo, Lurdes Tapajos, Luiz Titia Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae
Conference Synthesis
Paulo Maldos, Centre for Popular Education, Brazil (Facilitator)
PART III: The Affirmation of Civil Society and Public Space
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
15. The Media
Democratization of Communications and the Media
Osvaldo Leon, Agencia Latinoamerica de Informacion
16. Education
Conference Synthesis
Bernard Charlot, World Forum on Education and Paul Belanger, International Council on Adult Education (Facilitators)
17. Culture
Cultural Diversity, Cultural Production and Identity
Fatma Alloo, Luiza Monteiro, Aureli Argemi, Imruh Bakari, Xavi Perez
18. Violence
Violence Against Women: The 'other world' must act
World March of Women
Conference Synthesis on the Culture of Violence and Domestic Violence
Fatima Mello, ABONG, Brazil (Facilitator)
19. Discrimination and Intolerance
Combating Discrimination and Intolerance
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, India
Conference Synthesis
Lilian Celiberti, Articulacion Feminista Marcosur (Facilitator)
20. Migration and the Traffic in People
The Contradictions of Globalization
Lorenzo Prencipe, Centre for Documentation and Research on International Migration, Paris
21. The Global Civil Society Movement
Discussion Document
Latin American Social Observatory (OSAL), Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO)
Conference Synthesis
Vittorio Agnoletto, Genoa Social Forum (Facilitator)
Part IV: Political Power and Ethics in the New Society
Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues
William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
22. The International Architecture of Power
International Organizations and the Architecture of World Power
Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
Conference Synthesis
Teivo Teivainen, Network Institute for Global Democratization (Facilitator)
23. Militarism and Globalization
Conference Synthesis
Marcela Escribano, Alternatives, Canada (Facilitator)
24 Human Rights
Conference Synthesis on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Maria Luisa Mendonca, Social Network for Justice and Human Rights (Facilitator)
25. Sovereignty
Sovereignty, Nation, Empire
Daniel Bensaid, University of Paris (St-Denis)
26. Democracy
Participatory Democracy
M. P. Parameswaran, Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad
27. Values
Values of a New Civilization
Mi