Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.
There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.
There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.
This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.
People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.