From ACT UP to the WTO: urban protest and community building in the era of globalization

Foreword: Creating a new literature for a new era of community organizing / Eric Rofes

Urban protest and community building in the era of globalization / Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk

Introductory notes on the trail from ACT UP to the WTO / Benjamin Shepard

Pt. 1. Glocal Proclivities and the New Social Movements

Target practice: community activism in a global era / Lesley J. Wood and Kelly Moore

short history of radical renewal / L. A. Kauffman

This city is ours / Esther Kaplan

How we really shut down the WTO / Starhawk

Community labor alliances: a new paradigm in the campaign to organize greengrocery workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness

Students, sweatshops, and local power / Joel Lefkowitz

Jubilee 2000 Northwest: breaking the chains of global debt / Bronwyn Mauldin

ACT UP founder "acts up" for Africa's access to AIDS / Eric Sawyer

Pt. 2. Sex, Social Justice, and the New Queer Community Organizing

Radical queers or queer radicals? Queer activism and the global justice movement / Liz Highleyman

Jail house rocks, "Matthew Shepard lives!" / Leslie Feinberg

From Stonewall to Diallo / Benjamin Shepard and Bob Kohler

reproductive rights movement, ACT UP, and the Lesbian Avengers / Benjamin Shepard and Sarah Schulman

From WHAM! to ACT UP / Tracy Morgan

Beyond patient and polite: a call for direct action and civil disobedience on behalf of same-sex marriage / Eric Rofes

Amanda Milan and the rebirth of the Street Trans Action Revolutionaries / Benjamin Shepard

When private clubs serve the public / Susan Wright

Jacks of Color: an oral history / Benjamin Shepard and Liddell Jackson

city as body politic / the body as city unto itself / Jim Eigo

Pt. 3. Public Versus Private Spaces, Battlegrounds, and Movements

Culture jamming a SexPanic! / Benjamin Shepard

Stepping off the sidewalk: Reclaim the Streets/NYC / Stephen Duncombe

Saving Esperanza Garden: the struggle over community gardens in New York City / Kerstin Mikalbrown

At cross purposes: the Church Ladies for Choice / Jan Cohen-Cruz

Adelante Street Theater Project: theatricalizing dissent in the streets of New York City / Carmelina Cartei

Irony, meme warfare, and the extreme costume ball / Andrew Boyd

Kneel before Bush! The origin of Students for an Undemocratic Society / Jason Grote

Pt. 4. Media and the New Social Movements

vision thing: were the DC and Seattle protests unfocused, or are critics missing the point? / Naomi Klein

Mayan technologies and the theory of electronic civil disobedience / Benjamin Shepard, Stephen Duncombe and Ricardo Dominguez

birth and promise of the Indymedia revolution / Ana Nogueira

"So many alternatives" The alternative AIDS video movement / Alexandra Juhasz

Black August continues: an exemplary blend of hip-hop and political history for social justice / Sofia Quintero

Wednesday, July 12: invasions of three NYC Starbucks / Bill Talen

Pt. 5. Race, Poverty, and World Making

From Los Angeles to Seattle: world city politics and the new global resistance / Roger Keil

Can Black radicalism speak the voice of Black workers? / Bill Fletcher, Jr.

fight for living wages / Stephanie Luce

Building a healing community from ACT UP to housing works / Benjamin Shepard and Keith Cyler

Harm reduction in the USA: a movement toward social justice / Alan Greig and Sara Kershnar

Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition / Margaret Groarke and Jordan Moss

Community development and community organizing: Apples and oranges? Chicken and egg? / Randy Stoecker

Joy, justice, and resistance to the new global apartheid / Benjamin Shepard.