The New Anti-GlobalistsArticleBy William Finnegan
Exploring the psychology of Seattle, Washington and beyond.Beck was a sophomore at Berkeley, taking a class in international rural development. The daughter of an orthopedic surgeon, she had gone to college planning to do premed, but environmental science caught her interest ...
Beck was a brilliant student"One of these new Renaissance people, so smart they could be almost anything," a former professor of hers recalls. She was intellectually insatiable, and her eagerness to understand the dynamics of economic development propelled her into several academic fields, notably the dry, dizzying politics of international finance and trade.
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Beck had found her strange grand passion--international trade rules--at an auspicious time. Besides the popularity of her class, there were the events last November in Seattle, where fifty thousand demonstrators shut down a major meeting of the World Trade Organization. Beck, who is twenty-seven, was a key organizer of the Seattle protests.
"The Spirit of Seattle," she says, crinkling her eyes and grinning blissfully. "Your body just tingled with hope, to be around so many people so committed to making a better world." Beck says things like "tingled with hope" and "making a better world" with no hint of self-consciousness ...
Another student of Saul Alinksi. My my its interesting how CAFTA always brings your type out of the woodwork.
Your insults are demeaning and do not promote a favorable impression of your side of the discussion.
Communists co-opt words all the time, if the communist anarchists use the word globalist, does that mean they own it now? No one else can use it?
As a pro-CAFTA person (I'd say globalist but the Seattle anarchists own that word now), how do you feel about sustainable development?