Anti-globalization activists are particularly critical of the undemocratic nature of capitalist globalization and the promotion of neoliberalism by international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank without much regard to the often devastating effects of global capital on local conditions.

Category: Anti-globalization activists

Category: Anti-globalization activists

Category: Anti-globalization activists

Category: Anti-globalization activists

Category: Anti-globalization activists

Category: Anti-globalization activists

Category: Anti-globalization activists

Category: Anti-globalization activists

Category: Anti-globalization activists

There is particular criticism of the role played by NGOs and the assumption by the Western Anti-globalization movement that they should seek to influence the politics of the Third World.

Anti-globalization advocates urge that preservation of the natural environment, human rights ( especially workplace rights and conditions ) and democratic institutions are likely to be placed at undue risk by globalization unless mandatory standards are attached to liberalisation.

Anti-globalization militants worried for a proper functioning of democratic institutions as the leaders of many democratic countries ( Spain, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom ) were acting against the wishes of the majorities of their populations in supporting the war.

Anti-globalization protests in Edinburgh during the start of the 31st G8 summit.

** Anti-globalization protests in Prague ( some 15, 000 protesters ) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.

Seen as symbols of U. S. dominance and perceived cultural imperialism, American fast food franchises have often been the target of Anti-globalization protests and demonstrations against the U. S. government.

Some have aimed to change government policy, such as the anti-war movement, the Ecology movement, and the Anti-globalization movement.

Anti-globalization critics further claim that First World countries impose what the critics describe as the consensus's neoliberal policies on economically vulnerable countries through organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and by political pressure and bribery.

Anti-globalization activist Naomi Klein reported that Sgrena was " fully aware " of but willing to take " tremendous risks " in order to document the war.

Anti-globalization is a sociocultural movement rather than an economic process.

This made her a lightning rod for criticism of the Clinton Administration from activists who often denounced the federal government as a threat to their fundamental freedoms.

Some vegans and animal rights activists boycott the use of all items made from leather, believing the practice of wearing animal hides to be unnecessary and cruel in today's society.

The year marked the 40th anniversary of the riots, giving journalists and activists cause to reflect on progress made since 1969.

Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made more than thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

Bari's activism made her seem egocentric, humorless, and strident to some, and her tactics often not only rankled the timber industry and political establishment, but fellow environmental activists.

Its activists scored a major victory in 2003 when the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling which made same-sex marriage legal in Ontario, the first jurisdiction in North America to do so.

Pankhurst made their Russell Square home into a centre for grieving sisters, attracting activists of many types.

Catonsville was briefly made quite famous during the 1968 protest by the " Catonsville Nine ", during which draft records were burned by Catholic anti-war activists.

With criticism allowed, some of the minorities ' activists made public their protest against " Han chauvinism " which they saw in formal approach of the party officials toward the local specifics.

Regular, even daily emails to Dow representatives from hired security analysts list the YouTube videos liked, Twitter and Facebook posts made and the public appearances of these activists, including the Yes Men.

Her politics and her dedication to a peaceful world interaction made sense to the new-wave activists, and recognized the strides Rankin had taken in the realms of peace and civil rights.

The album made it to No. 18 in the U. S. It is also the group's most overtly political album, though they had been activists and fund-raisers for environmental, AIDS and animal rights causes for many years.

In theory, the idea is to send all the weapons and money made from the stolen goods to Partisan guerrillas fighting in the woods, however, much to Blacky's dissatisfaction, many of the ' activists ' are using the rackets for personal gain.

Upon announcement of Hodel becoming president of the CCA, he expressed a desire to serve the grassroots activists that made up the Coalition: "... I am here.

Also in 1961, Davis made the film Seduction of the Innocent, targeting teenagers with the message that marijuana use leads to heroin addiction, a message that many marijuana activists dispute as an example of a slippery slope fallacy.

His parents were anti-apartheid activists in the Liberal Party of South Africa, for which they were made " banned persons ", briefly jailed, and prevented from working.

Tatchell also pointed out that the African statement contained no concrete evidence to confirm the allegations made by African activists, that many African activists had refused to sign it and that many African activists continue to work with him.

Ford's pardon of Nixon just before the 1974 midterm elections was not well received, and the Democrats made major gains, bringing to power a generation of young liberal activists, many of them suspicious of the military and the CIA.

The British academic James Dunkerley noted that Morales had gathered together a cabinet made up of indigenous activists and leftist intellectuals which was, on the whole, " extremely inexperienced " at governing.

Climate activists made the song the centerpiece of their Occupy COP17 rally on December 9, 2011, the final day of the UN climate treaty negotiations.

The CP also exerted a great deal of influence within the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America ( or UE ), founded in 1936 by the merger of a number of federal unions created by the AFL and small shop caucuses, largely made up of CP activists and other socialists and radicals, at General Electric, Westinghouse Electric Company and other unorganized companies.

The Council to Aid Jews, Żegota, was the continuation of an earlier secret organization set up for this purpose, called the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews ( Tymczasowy Komitet Pomocy Żydom ), founded in September 1942 by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz (" Alinka ") and made up of Polish Democrat as well as other Catholic activists.