Global Justice as a Social Movement

The global justice movement (GJM) – also called the alter‐globalization, the anti‐corporate globalization, or (by its critics) the antiglobalization movement – is a transnational social movement, rooted in the confluence of the human rights, labor, environmental, indigenous, peasant, and feminist movements' shared opposition to neoliberal globalization (“free market” globalization, which GJM activists see as promoting the hyper‐exploitation of people and the environment) and in a vision of a more democratic, equitable, ecologically sustainable world. Constituent organizations range from traditional nonprofits and volunteer groups in the industrialized world to large, grassroots labor, peasant, and indigenous organizations in the developing world. The strands making up the GJM coalesced in the 1990s and became highly visible in the United States following the massive 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, Washington, though much current activism is more local and less visible in nature. The movement has built dense networks facilitating global coalitions and campaigns; these emerged as a result of not just the Internet but face‐to‐face global conferences such as the World Social Forum

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