Globalization is on the Attack: We Better Build a Powerful Bottom-up Movement.

Today's globalization and neo-liberal policies mean the rich get richer and the poor get poorer - in the developing world and in the United States and the "developing world within." We locate the struggle for basic human needs and collective human rights - economic, political and cultural - in the context of corporate globalization and the emerging bottom-up movement for global justice and equality. Within the U.S. - the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world - the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance has stepped forward as part of the leadership in building the local-global justice movement. GGJ emerged out of the World Social Forum process beginning in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. As grassroots and people of color activists from the U.S., they looked around and saw that the U.S. global justice movement was represented primarily by big NGOs and foundations - mostly middle class and white. A core of these activists and their organizations came together in 2002 to bring a delegation to the WSF that represented their voices and constituencies and to build the global justice movement in the U.S. We share their story and plans for the U.S. Social Forum in summer 2007 as part of the world social forum process and the movement for another world where human needs are put before maximum profits and market economics. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]