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Alter-globalization (also known as alternate globalization, Alter-mundialization ( from the French "altermondialisme") or the global justice movement) is the name of a social movement that supports global cooperation and interaction, but which opposes the negative effects of economic globalization, feeling that it often works to the detriment of, or does not adequately promote, human values such as environmental protection, economic justice, labor protection, protection of indigenous cultures and human rights. The name may have been derived from a popular slogan of the movement: 'Another world is possible', which came out of the World Social Forum. “The alter-globalization movement is a cooperative movement designed to protest the direction and perceived negative economic, political, social, cultural and ecological consequences of neoliberal globalization” (Krishna-Hensel 202) . Many alter-globalists, unlike anti-globalists, seek to avoid the “disestablishment of local economies and disastrous humanitarian consequences” ([1]). Most members of this movement shun the label "anti-globalization" as pejorative and incorrect since they actively support human activity on a global scale and do not oppose economic globalization per se. Instead they see their movement as an alternative to what they term neo-liberal globalization in which international institutions (WTO, World Bank, IMF etc.) and major corporations devote themselves to enriching the developed world while giving little or no attention to the detrimental effects of their actions on the people and environments of less developed countries, countries whose governments are often too weak or too corrupt to resist or regulate them. This is not to be confused with proletarian internationalism as put forth by communists in that alter-globalists do not necessarily oppose the free market, but the disregard for human values that sometimes comes with it. From Wikipedia under the
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UDAY'S DIARY 2008-12-20 09:00:00 She is a figure-head of the anti-globalization/. alter-globalization. movement and a vehement critic of neo-imperialism. In response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan, Roy wrote The End of Imagination, . ... The Economics of Global Democracy
Editor 2008-11-14 06:46:00 it's being variously called economic democracy, living democracy, earth democracy, democratic mundialization, or simply . alter-globalization. -- with all of its component off-shoots including water democracy, food democracy or food . ... Development Redefined BanglaPraxis
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