The police are said to be gearing up for mass arrests. Here is the reality. A new movement for justice is being born. In the midst of the longest expansion in history, the global economy is facing a crisis of legitimacy. More and more citizens of conscience are rising up against global injustice.
Students organize on campus against global corporations profiting from sweatshops abroad.
People of faith march in a Jubilee 2000 call to relieve impoverished countries of debts that they can never hope to repay. This movement challenges a bipartisan consensus of the two major parties, whose leaders join together in pushing the corporate globalization agenda. Their unwillingness to respond to the patent injustices of the system they promote forces people of conscience into the streets. The movement has many voices, many contradictions, and many differences - as all powerful movements do. But it represents a dramatic sea change from the past quarter century.