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Fences and Windows

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate

Naomi Klein
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Pages
296
Year
2010
Language
English

About

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate brings together two years of Naomi Klein's writings and tracks the globalization conflict from Seattle to September 11th and beyond.

Since the publication of No Logo, Naomi Klein has continued tirelessly as a brilliant and informed contributor to contemporary debate. Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, intended as a companion to No Logo, includes her most notable essays, speeches and articles on issues from NAFTA to Genetically Modified Organisms to the violence in Genoa. It offers introduction and explanation, looking at where the movement has come from and where it is going.

More than any other single voice, Naomi Klein articulates the concerns and complaints of a generation: about economic fundamentalism, the criminalization of dissent and the effects of Free Trade. But this book also reflects on the nature of resistance: the street protests that shocked and energized millions, carnival-style subversion and the apparent disorganization that is anti-globalization's great strength.

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate is provocative, intelligent and passionate, a document, in its own right, of a unique time in our history. Preface

I. Windows of Dissent

Seattle

Washington, D.C.

What's Next?

Los Angeles

Prague

Toronto

II. Fencing in Democracy: Trade and Trade-Offs

Democracy in Shackles

The Free Trade Area of the Americas

IMF Go to Hell

No Place for Local Democracy

The War on Unions

The NAFTA Track Record

Higher Fences at the Border

Making -- and Breaking -- the Rules

The Market Swallows the Commons

Genetically Altered Rice

Genetic Pollution

Foot-and-Mouth's Sacrificial Lambs

The Internet as Tupperware Party

Co-opting Dissent

Economic Apartheid in South Africa

Poison Policies in Ontario

America's Weakest Front

III. Fencing in the Movement: Criminalizing Dissent

Cross-Border Policing

Pre-emptive Arrest

Surveillance

Fear Mongering

The "Citizens Caged" Petition

Infiltration

Indiscriminate Tear-Gassing

Getting Used to Violence

Manufacturing Threats

Stuck in the Spectacle

IV. Capitalizing on Terror

The Brutal Calculus of Suffering

New Opportunists

Kamikaze Capitalists

The Terrifying Return of Great Men

America Is Not a Hamburger

V. Windows to Democracy

Democratizing the Movement

Rebellion in Chiapas

Italy's Social Centres

Limits of Political Parties

From Symbols to Substance

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index

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