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There was a sad inevitability about it. The death in Genoa is the first fatality in the wave of riots that have touched three continents since the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999. But over a year and a half, the level of violence has been gradually stepped up. At the annual conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague last September, protesters hurled Molotov cocktails and chunks of pavement into the faces of Czech police officers. At a summit of the European Union in Goteborg, Sweden, last month, live rounds were fired...
...President Vladimir Putin, were also there for their annual gabfest. Safely sequestered in a medieval palace a mile from the Piazza Alimonda, the issues they talked about--such as a possible world recession and global warming--were overshadowed by the mayhem. In much the same vein, few will remember Genoa's peaceful side. On Saturday a crowd estimated by the police to be 100,000 strong marched through the city. Its banners spoke for the poor, for workers' rights, for all the issues of those who oppose the way in which the world has become knitted together by globalization...
...wearing, hymn-singing crowd--many of whose members had been recruited in churches--ringed the host cities to argue peaceably for a reduction of the debts owed by the world's poorest nations. In very large measure, that campaign has been won; in their statement about the riots in Genoa, the G-8 leaders explicitly said: "We recognize and praise the role that peaceful protest [has] played in putting issues like debt relief on the international agenda." Politicians should, in fact, listen to those who argue that globalization has losers as well as winners; it does. But few leaders...
...event, a self-destructive course. One man died in Genoa; a man, we must presume, who was swayed by the false promise that violence--not peaceful protest, not participation in the democratic process--is the best way to advance a political cause. It is not too much to hope that the next time his friends stoop to pick up a cobblestone, they will remember a lesson learned when plows first broke the Mesopotamian earth: You reap what...
Never mind those world leaders meeting in Genoa. The globe's most potent ambassadors are often its traveling rock stars. With Madonna launching the U.S. portion of her Drowned World tour after a five-city European swing, Notebook looks at how rock's headliners are promoting--and pummeling--international harmony...