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From ACT UP to the WTO: urban protest and community building in the era of globalization
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Verso
Publication Date
2002
Language
English
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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.
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185984653
9781859843567
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