Part One: Alter-globalization Continues: How the Movement of Movements Used Carnivals and Riots to Fight Neoliberalism

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks about how people confronted trade summit after trade summit, fighting tooth, nail, and pom-pom against unelected world governance.

Sources:

https://crimethinc.com/2021/11/30/epilogue-on-the-movement-against-capitalist-globalization-22-years-after-n30-what-it-can-teach-us-today

http://www.ainfos.ca/99/jun/ainfos00181.html

https://crimethinc.com/2017/06/18/flashback-to-june-18-1999-the-carnival-against-capital-a-retrospective-video-and-comic

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/j18.htm

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1:14.6	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff, your weekly reminder that we come from an infinitely long legacy of rebels and freethinkers who've stood up against the man-made horrors
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1:25.0	infinitely long legacy of rebels and free thinkers who stood up against the man-made horrors that dominate the world.
1:29.3	I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and this week is another solo episode.
1:33.8	I like doing these sometimes because it lets me be a little bit more freeform in how I like
1:39.0	tell these stories.
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