Finding Hope After Seattle
Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement

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Year Published:  2000
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14016

Direct action, as many anarchists tend to define it, can be deeply exclusionary. While it undeniably empowers some — mainly white and middle-class — it disempowers others. Used as a central tactic of mass mobilizations, direct action can in fact implicitly assume a certain degree of privilege, with dire consequences.

Subject Headings

• Activism/Radicalism
• Anarchism
• Anti-Capitalism
• Anti-Globalization