Anti-globalization

Anti-globalization is a term most commonly used to describe the political stance of the grouping of social movements which are prominent in protests against global trade agreements and the negative consequences for the poor, for the environment and for peace which they claim follow from them. Participants in these movements often reject the term "anti-globalization", preferring to describe themselves as the Global Justice Movement, the Movement of Movements, the alter-globalization movement or the Anti-corporate Movement.

Mobilizations

Note that the start of this timeline only reflects the start of major American mobilizations; international anti-corporate globalization mobilizations occurred prior to Seattle.

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• November 30, 1999 – Seattle, WTO Third Ministerial conference
• April 16, 2000 – Washington, DC, IMF
• May 1, 2000 – Global, May Day protests
• July 29, 2000 – Philadelphia, Republican National Convention
• August 11, 2000 – Los Angeles, USA, Democratic National Convention
• September 11, 2000 – Melbourne, World Economic Forum
• September 26, 2000 – Prague, Czech Republic, World Bank/IMF
• November 20, 2000 – Montreal, Quebec, G20 meeting
• January 20, 2001 – Washington, DC, Bush inauguration
• January 27, 2001 – Davos, Switzerland, World Economic Forum
• April 20, 2001 – Quebec City, Canada, Summit of the Americas (FTAA)
• June 15, 2001 – Gothenburg, Sweden EU Summit
• July 20, 2001 – Genoa, Italy G8 Summit
• September 29, 2001 – Washington, DC, Anti-capitalist anti-war protests
• February 1, 2002 – New York City, USA / Porto Alegre, Brazil World Economic Forum / World Social Forum
• March 15, 2002 – Barcelona, Spain EU Summit
• April 20, 2002 – Washington, DC (War on Terrorism)
• November 4 to November 10 – Florence, Italy, First European Social Forum
• June 26, 2002 – Calgary, Alberta, and Ottawa, Ontario, G8 summit at Kananaskis, Alberta J26 G8 Protests
• September 27, 2002 – Washington, DC, IMF/World Bank
• weekend of February 15, 2003, March, April – Global protests against war on Iraq about 12 million antiwar protesters
• July 28, 2003 – Montreal, Quebec
• September 14, 2003 – Cancún, Mexico – Fifth Ministerial of the WTO collapses http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=4241
• October, 2003 – regional WEF meeting in Dublin, European Competitiveness Summit, cancelled http://www.freewebs.com/o2o/
• November 20, 2003 – Miami Mobilzation against the Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA
• July 2 to July 8, 2005 – Edinburgh, Glasgow and Gleneagles, Scotland Protests aginst the G8 Summit