06 Oct Learning From Globalization Protests

October 6th, 2011
By Naomi Klein

Naomi was asked by the New York Times to contribute to an edition of “Room for Debate” about Occupy Wall Street: “The protesters are getting more attention and expanding outside New York. What are they doing right, and what are they missing?” Here is her response.

I can’t help but compare the Occupy Wall Street protests to the movements that sprang up against corporate globalization at the end of 1990s, most visibly at the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle. Like today’s protests, those demonstrations were also marked by innovative coalitions among students, trade unions and environmentalists.