An Excerpt from Globalization from Below Globalization from Below , By Jememy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith Introduction Introduction Corporations, markets, investors, and elites are going global. A movement embodying globalization from below is already emerging. Its global grassroots solidarity has the power to transform the world.
Globalization gets mixed reviews.
The advocates of a world without national economic barriers maintain that it will make everyone, including the people and countries at the bottom, better off. Instead, it has given us more poor people than the world has ever known and increased threats to the environmental conditions on which human life itself depends. Globalization from above is provoking a worldwide movement of resistance. While this movement has been gathering for years, many people first became aware of it in late 1999, when tens of thousands of protesters brought the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization to a halt. This movement is neither a one-shot nor a local phenomenon.