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From the street protests in Seattle and Washington D.C. to behind the scenes in the halls of power, here's where you'll find MoJo's up-to-date coverage of globalization issues and events.
2000 General Globalization Coverage
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Seattle, One Year Later
(12/2/00)
The first anniversary of the massive anti-WTO protests in Seattle was only faintly echoed in Seattle's streets -- but the fallout continues to rain down on Seattle city officials.
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A Job on the Line
(March/April 2000)
After 34 years, Mollie James lost her place on the global assembly line. Now Balbina Duque holds her job in Mexico -- and both women struggle to make ends meet.
Sept. 2000 Coverage of the IMF/World Bank Meeting in Prague
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Prague Prepares for Siege
(9/22/00)
The Czech capital braced for the IMF/World Bank protests with the biggest military buildup since the Soviets crushed the Prague Spring in 1969.
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Prague in Perspective
(9/22/00)
A guide to alternative views and news of the IMF/World Bank protests and the participants.
July/Aug. 2000 Presidential Convention Protests
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Shadowing the Conventions
(6/21/00)
Political celebs are planning to descend on L.A. and Philly this summer to throw their own counter-conventions in an effort to draw attention to the issues both parties prefer to ignore.
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Rage Against the Ennui
(8/15/00)
Americans aren't watching the conventions because, well, they're bored. But look to the protestors for some hints on how to make politics a ratings-winner: It's all about spectacle.
April 2000 IMF/World Bank Coverage
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What We've Won
(4/21/00)
The anti-globalization demonstrations in Seattle and DC were remarkable victories for grassroots activism, and it's worth taking the measure of everything that's gone right. Of course, the struggle has only just begun. In Focus on the Corporation.
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Moving Toward a Movement?
(4/20/00)
The IMF/World Bank protests were a strong second step for the emerging alliance of progressive forces fighting globalization. But can the activists keep up the momentum to build a real movement?
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Cops, Protesters Make Nice
(4/18/00)
Our man-on-the street reports in from the front lines of the DC protests, in which -- except for a little tear gas, pepper spray, and a pack of unjustified arrests -- everyone goes home happy.
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Mild in the Streets
(4/17/00)
The A16 protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund failed to disrupt the annual meetings of the two institutions. But the protesters say they won anyway.
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The Domino's Effect
(4/15/00)
The International Finance Corporation -- a little-known arm of the World Bank -- is supposed to fight global poverty, but instead is pouring millions into luxury hotels and Domino's Pizza franchises.
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Talkback on Globalization
(4/10/00)
Bill McKibben, in his article "Muggles in the Ozone" says last winter's protests in Seattle were an attack on something even more pervasive than free trade: the conventional wisdom. How different is the current anti-globalization movement from the anti-war protests of 30 years ago? Join the discussion
here.
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The IMF's Dirty Dozen
(4/6/00)
The top 12 reasons to protest the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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Seattle,the Sequel
(3/30/00)
Lords of the global economy vs. grassroots dissidents, round two: Thousands of protesters are heading for Washington, DC to disrupt a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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The IMF Stumbles
(3/24/00)
The International Monetary Fund's strategy of blackmailing developing countries into opening up to trade is finally drawing fire from economically dominant nations, including the United States.
1999 World Trade Organization Coverage
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Exporting the Mess
(12/6/99)
Trade organizers and corporations are finding market solutions to pesky protestors, such as exporting dissenters from rich countries to poor ones; after all, developing nations are woefully underprotested.
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Uncommon Ground
(12/2/99)
Even as tear gas filled Seattle's streets and demonstrators its jails, the wildly diverse collection of protesters gathered there to oppose the World Trade Organization appeared to maintain their surprising unity -- and even more surprisingly, good will from political figures from President Clinton to Pat Buchanan.
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Circus in Seattle
(11/24/99)
Unlikely bedfellows from steelworkers to treehuggers are coming together in Seattle to push their pet grievances about unfettered world trade with marches and made-for-TV guerilla theater.
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World Trade or World Domination?
(11/24/99)
To its supporters, the WTO is a ray of hope for free trade and growth for even the poorest developing countries. To its detractors, and there are many, it is the enemy of human rights, the environment, labor, and local self-determination. Just what is the WTO, anyway?
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The Scoop Takes On the WTO
(11/24/99)
How the WTO undermines democratically elected national governments in the name of an ideal -- free trade -- which doesn't even exist outside bullish economists' daydreams. And guess what? You lose.
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Globalization and the Maquiladoras
(11/24/99)
Increased competition across borders means businesses need to keep costs down. That means ever more factories moving out of rich nations and into poorer ones, where wages are low and worker protections few. Mexican maquiladora workers are converging on Seattle to demand justice.
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Hot-Button Issue: Genetically Modified Foods
(11/24/99)
Is banning the import of genetically modified foods a sensible protection for the environment and human health, or an illegal barrier to free trade? Seattle hosts the showdown.
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Top 10 Reasons to Shutter the WTO
(11/24/99)
Focus on the Corporation: At the WTO, commercialism trumps human rights, democracy, the environment, and labor, while communities and developing nations get the shaft.
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Readers Weigh in on the WTO
Your letters about the events in Seattle.
Earlier Globalization Coverage
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