Paperback. Massive protests have disrupted global summit meetings from Seattle to Quebec City and from Gothenburg to Genoa. These demonstrations let the world know that resistance to globalization remains strong and vibrant. Not as clearly heard, though, are accounts of local communities organizing popular collective actions to resist those same institutions and policies of globalization. Focusing on four countries — Mexico, Guatemala, United States, and Canada — the narratives in this volume tell of peoples' collective struggles for environmental, economic and social justice. They deal with: indigenous peoples struggles against violence and coercion in Guatemala; Guatemalan refugees mobilizing in exile; environmental education for sustainable agriculture in Mexico; organizing waste pickers of Mexico; the resistance efforts to better working conditions of telemarketing operators; improving seniors housing; and the ways people of color have taken community actions to change oppressive environments in New York City. In all cases the focus is on the meaning and usefulness of individual acts of resistance and their relationship to collective action: the ways people cope with difficult working conditions and how these acts help to change, not only the working conditions, but the workers themselves. Stories of how marginalized groups and individuals battle to gain some measure of control of their lives. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Just Doing it (Paperback)
Publisher: Black Rose Books, Montreal
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 155164200X
ISBN 13: 9781551642000
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Stories of how marginalized groups and individuals battle to gain some measure of control of their lives.

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Desfor, Barndt, and Rahder all teache at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, and directors and faciliators for a three-year graduate student exchange program funded by Human Resources Development Canada. This book is the result of the work done by the students of this exchange program: the Consortium on Sustainable Community Development and Planning.

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