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NEWS & LETTERS,
January-February 2002
Column: Our Life and Times by Kevin A. Barry and
Mary Holmes
March in Brussels
Some 20,000 anti-globalization
demonstrators from dozens of countries marched down the streets of Brussels,
Belgium on Dec. 14. The day before, 80,000 attended another demonstration,
called by the European Confederation of Trade Unions. The occasion for both
demonstrations was a summit meeting of European Union leaders. At the anti-globalization
demonstration, the overall slogan was "For Another Europe—Another World
Is Possible." Many of the participants were high school and college-age
youth, ranging from anarchists to Christian humanists. Some Belgian, Italian,
and French labor unions, as well as organizations of the unemployed, also
brought out sizable contingents, as did ecologists and several Trotskyist
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