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Bringing globalization home: lessons from Miami in projecting the voices of people of color and connecting global forces to local problems.(Action)

Colorlines Magazine

| June 22, 2004 | Pastor, Manuel; LoPresti, Tony | COPYRIGHT 2004 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Since making a public debut in Seattle in 1999, the U.S. wing of the global justice movement has often stuttered on a single internal issue: the need to diversify its ranks and take a lead from communities of color most affected by corporate globalization. Part of the problem is summit-hopping itself: one often finds white, middle-class activists and labor union leadership swooping into town for the action, then departing, with the local community serving as a mere stage for the Kabuki play of protest and repression.

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But the mobilization against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meetings in Miami last November represented ...

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