Word: antiglobalist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ralph Nader is wandering around (see accompanying story), and so is satirical filmmaker Michael Moore, but they're not calling the shots or giving marching orders. The Mobilization for Global Justice isn't a top-down affair. Like the Internet itself, and unlike the coalition's corporate enemies, the antiglobalist movement is a body that manages to survive, and even thrive, without a head...
...bone up on the arcana of Third World debt relief. "It all ties back to economic injustice," says Vaughan, who marvels at how the movement has drawn in youthful nonconformists of every stripe. Keith Mann, an adjunct professor of history and sociology at DePaul, agrees that all the antiglobalist roads seem to converge on a single point. "The students feel they are of the same ilk, but they're not sure why," he says. "In an age of diffuse power, this is something students can grab onto. The IMF and the World Bank are a clear and present power...