Shutting Down the Streets
Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era
Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers of the Group of Eight (G8). The wall manifested a level of security that is increasingly commonplace at meetings regarding the global economy. The authors of Shutting Down the Streets have directly observed and participated in more than 20 mass actions against global in North America and Europe, beginning with the watershed 1999 WTO meetings in Seat…
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Weitere Autoren: Starr, Amory / Scholl, Christian
- ISBN: 978-0-8147-0873-6
- EAN: 9780814708736
- Produktnummer: 21432514
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'760 KB
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Luis A. Fernandez, Amory Starr, Christian Scholl
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