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...antiglobalists, an advantage to having no head is that your enemies can't lop it off. A disadvantage is having no single voice. Though the coalition is singing one song--We Aren't the World, let's call it--it's hardly singing in harmony. Some protesters can't even agree about the purpose of the rally against the IMF. For Emily LaBarbera-Twarog, who works at the Midwest office of the Campaign for Labor Rights, the goal is "to stop the meeting from happening." For Vaughan the aim is "to give us a voice at the table...
...some ways, the IMF protest was a reunion. It wasn't a replay, though. In Seattle, organized labor ran interference for the ragtag groups assembled behind it, marshaling several thousand union members who feared that free trade might send their jobs abroad. In Washington, labor focused on lobbying Congress over the China-trade issue, leaving the IMF and the World Bank to the ad hoc Netocracy. Munson, the anarchist, thinks it's just as well. "The union heads are into a protectionist, nationalist agenda," he says. "They want to prevent China from entering the WTO. Our position is that...
Into what, though? And into how many pieces? The antiglobalists seem, at times, like "anything but"-ers, like connoisseurs of chaos. With their affinity groups and spokescouncils and e-mail listservs, they have mastered the art of creating disorderly order and vice versa. It's a real achievement, despite the feeling of some that they've failed hugely in winning poor Americans and minorities to their sometimes remote, confusing cause. Globalization is a big word and an even bigger enemy. Maybe for people with everyday concerns like paying the rent and keeping the car gassed up, it's a little...
...million to 18 million people--more than half the population--living in dire poverty, with 12.5 million of them unable to afford the most basic needs. These men and women, almost all subsistence or small-plot cash-crop farmers, have been structurally adjusted half to death. Though Adams points to progress--51% of Tanzanians now survive on $1 a day or less, down from 65% in the mid-1980s--his statistic makes Tanzanian analysts laugh bitterly, because it misses the fact that everything in a farmer's life costs more today. Currency devaluation and the elimination of agricultural subsidies doubled...
Maybe this one won't last either. Maybe the buyers will ride in on their white horses once again and save the day. It's simply too early to tell. What we know for sure, though, is that they didn't ride in last week, when the only tracks in evidence were left by the bears who trampled the NASDAQ, which fell a record 25.3% for the week, and the Dow, which on Friday suffered its worst one-day point loss--a, ahem, dip of 618 points...