Saturday March 31st, 2007 00:00 USA: social struggles within neo-con crisis

USA: social struggles within neo-con crisis

Coordinated by Beppe Caccia, Uninomade
“We wanted the debate of USA to understand the internal, economical , social, and global dynamic of the Empire. We start remembering the image, that we liked very much, of the Seattle battle.
The new fase of global movement. Financiarial crisis of the new economy, the passage of the immaterial economy ,of symbolic, the born of political and ecological crisis to incorporate in our teorical and practical reading. in Usa, more than in other places, people live and feel the the crisis of representation, its level of corruption of a political system that cannot represent and understand the social movements that are presented in USA. The attack to civil freedoms, the patrioct act, Guantanamo bay, the transformation of police in a military army and the military army in a global police, these are the signs of the multilateralism in Usa, as are the many military attacks in many places...”
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Heather Gautney - Assistant professor of sociology, Towson University, Maryland – USA
"In the United States a moltitude of little groups and movements exists . Every of these movements had expressed an high level of analysis and battle against the economic and military instruments of imperial domination and of globalisation, such as the world bank and FMI. These were the groups that created the battle of Seattle. But everything has changed after September 11th. The security change has changed the instruments of internal repression and so the war has entered in our houses.
Civil freedoms were canceled in the name of security and the behaviour of the people also changed. After the shock of the attack, and the little agibility of movement in the first phase of the war, now the movements have found their way, also after the circulation of Guantanmo and Abu grahib’s photos.
Now we know that the wheapons of distructions were only an excuse and, after katrina hurricane, we saw that the poor level of people and of society were not tutelated. The actions have been multiplied against the recruitment centres and many soldiers havce begun to desert and to inform themselves about the psycological and physic consequences of the war.
The student movements try to forbid the recruitments in the university and of the migrants, who, in this way, can keep their citizenship. Now, the movements are the ones that are trying to experiment a radical option of organization and strategies out of the political parties....."
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Stanley Aronowitz - Distinguished Professor of Sociology, City University of New York – USA
"Why the movement fighting against globalization was born in Seattle and not elsewhere? Movements in the USA have the extraodrinary ability of breaking out in large conflicts and then fade....
The working class, the multitude, material workers turned theirselves to immaterial and precarious workers and, when they joined together, organized from the bottom into a union, couched a radical option such as the one we saw in Seattle. We should try to organize a new way of being movement, a federation of the movements in the USA, to make intervention in the struggles to regain possession of our territories. Social movements have understood that they shouldn’t intervene in movements having connections to the Democrat Party, but have to find their own autonomous way."
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