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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 ...