We live in an era of a new radicalism, a worldwide challenge to global empire that has inspired millions to flood the streets in resistance, and to take action in their own communities. This movement of movements is gaining momentum, even in the face of post-9/11 repression and war. All over the world people are rebelling against a world ruled by a few who are intent on concentrating power and wealth.

Globalize Liberation weaves together the experiences and insights of community organizers, direct action movements, and global justice struggles from North America, Europe, and Latin America. Thirty-three essays provide food for thought, examples of effective action, and practical tools for everyone to use. This book, the product of hard-fought victories, uprisings and hopeful visions for the future, was created to articulate, popularize, and deepen the rebellious spirit and common sense of the new radicalism.

GLOBALIZE LIBERATION GIVES VOICE & A HOW-TO GUIDE TO THE "NEW RADICALISM"

"New radicalism" is a term used to describe the diverse movement of movements that is challenging empire and corporate capitalism worldwide, inspiring millions to flood the streets in resistance and to take action in their own communities. The new radicalism is new both in how popular and widespread it has become, and in its original methods of organizing for change.

Globalize Liberation weaves together the experiences and insights of community organizers, direct-action movements, and global justice struggles from North America, Europe, and Latin America. It offers clear analysis of our root problems, new strategies and tools for radical change, and examples of effective organizing campaigns and popular rebellions--from the popular rebellion in Argentina to the agricultural fields of Florida, and from the anti-prison organizing in California's Central Valley to the radical popular movement in Italy. Visually rich, with over one hundred and eighty powerful photos and illustrations, Globalize Liberation uses an innovative travel-guide style tab navigation and cutting-edge design.

David Solnit--an organizer of the successful shutdowns of the WTO in Seattle in 1999 and of San Francisco's financial district in 2003, and a cofounder of Art and Revolution, which popularized street theater in mass actions across North America--edits the collection of thirty-three essays. His introduction explains how the shared principles of this new radicalism connect grassroots struggles across the planet into an unprecedented and hopeful global movement.

Highlights include:

Twelve short essays answer the question, "What is at the root of our problems?" froma variety of frameworks: race, class, feminism, globalization, capital,corporations, ruling class, democracy, war, indigenous, and September 11, includingnew writings by Walden Bello, Starhawk and Van Jones.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the most effective and imaginative farmworker movement since the United Farm Workers, explain for the first time how they organize and why they are winning.

Direct-action organizing pioneer George Lakey offers an important new essay, "Strategy for a Living Revolution," where he outlines a coherent framework for understanding the stages of radical movements and the key role of mass nonviolent direct action, using the recent uprisings in Serbia and Argentina as examples.

Patrick Reinsborough's "Decolonizing the Revolutionary Imagination," explains some of the key tools and concepts behind the Smartmeme Training and Strategy Project, which has been utilized by diverse struggles from San Francisco's Direct Action to Stop the War's shutdown of San Francisco to native land struggles in Northern California to small farmers fighting GMO's in Vermont to the resistance at the Republican National Convention.

Several essays offer the best published English language description the popular rebellion in Argentina and explain the new politics, sometimes called "horizontalism," of the most far reaching rebellion in a modern industrialized country in recent history.

Elizabeth Betita Martinez, Arnoldo Garcia, Naomi Klein and John Jordan all explore Zapatismo, applying it locally, offering lessons from the Zapatistas for those of us living outside of Chiapas.

Longtime community organizer Tom Knoche offers a clear nuts and bolts model of radical neighborhood organizing for change.

Cindy Milstein describes the possibilities of moving from reclaiming streets to reclaiming cities; and San Francisco Community Land Trust organizer Tom Wetzel shares his experience of organizing for self-managed housing and envisions how a self-managed city would work.

Successful organizing case studies are explained; from Rachel Neumann's reflection on the International Solidarity Movement's campaign in Palestine to Argentine puppeteer Graciela Monteagudo's use of street theater in popular movements to Ramsay Kanaan's story of how a small group of community organizers in Scotland catalyzed a mass movement that toppled Margaret Thatcher.

Anti-prison and environmental justice organizers Ruthie Gilmore and Craig Gilmore describe the grassroots organizing against California's massive prison-industrial complex and explain the role of prisons in a corporate globalized system.

This unique book is one of the first books on current social movements to prioritize the voices of grassroots intellectuals and street level practitioners. The book amplifies the voices of organizers from many different movements and weaves together a compelling, hands-on vision of how to create a better world.