Instead of devoting their energy to securing food, jobs and land, social movements around the world are being forced to spend their time fighting the low-level war against their own criminalisation.
The great irony is that these movements are actually waging the real war on terrorism – not with law and order but by providing alternatives to the fundamentalist tendencies that exist wherever there is true desperation.
I never paid that much attention to Naomi Klein or ‘No Logo’, writing her off as part of the fashionably vacuous anti-globalisation movement. This makes me think I may have been rather hasty – good writing and perfectly timed.
