Chapter One - “People’s Globalization: Ya Basta”

In the first chapter Judy talks about the extraordinary links among people’s movements around the world. Starting with the anti-globalization movement and the Zaptista’s, most of the chapter focuses on the extraordinary development of the World Social Forum. Basing the chapter on her own experiences, Judy gives us a sense of what a new world could be through the open, horizontal and democratic organizing of this extraordinary new institution.

“At the World Social Forum in 2003, it became clear to me that the forum was really a process more than a product. The WSF has given us a new way of talking to one another, a new way of sharing our experience, and the impact is extraordinary. On so many levels, the spirit of the WSF has created multiple dialogues that may very well promote transformation.”

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Relevant Blog Entries:
http://transformingpower.ca/en/category/book-chapters/chapter-one

You can see a wonderful video of the Nairobi Social Forum here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5F_B-5Mlmk

You can see photos from the US Social Forum here:
http://flickr.com/photos/90042597@N00/sets/72157600537418115/

Adivasi/Indigenous Peoples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adivasi

African Right to Water Coalition
http://www.righttowater.ca/

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
http://www.aflcio.org/

Azcarate, Fred
http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/04/13/fred-azcarate-making-the-american-drea...

Chomsky, Norm
http://www.zmag.org/blog/noamchomsky

Council of Canadians
http://www.canadians.org/

Domestic Workers United
http://www.domesticworkersunited.org/

European Social Forum
http://www.fse-esf.org/

Freedom Caravan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_ride

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
http://www.ftaa-alca.org/

Freire, Paolo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire

Goldtooth, Tom
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=473

Grassroots Global Justice
http://www.ggjalliance.org/

Mau Mau Rebellion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau

Obama, Barack
www.barackobama.com

Oka Crisis
http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/civil_unrest/topics/99/

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
http://www.unite-to-fight.org/

PT. See Brazil Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores [PT])
http://www.pt.org.br

Quebec City Anti-Globalization Protest
http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/quebecreports.cfm#ZNet%20Update

Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC)
http://www.rocunited.org/

Right to the City Network
http://www.righttothecity.org/

Roy, Arundhati
http://www.weroy.org/

Seattle Anti-Globalization Protest
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2007206186362541122

Transnational Institute
http://www.tni.org/

U.S. Social Forum
http://www.ussf2007.org/

Wainwright, Hilary
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/

Whitaker, Chico
http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s1384912.htm

World Social Forum (WSF)
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/,
http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/?set_language=en

Zapatistas
http://www.zapatistarevolution.com/

People’s Parliament
http://www.peoples-parliament.org/

Project South
http://www.projectsouth.org/

World Economic Forum
http://www.weforum.org