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LATE JANUARY 2002: Noam Chomsky, one of the intellectual leaders of the broadly named Anti-Globalization movement, is addressing a cheering crowd of 3000 at the World Social Forum in Puero Allegre, Brazil. ‘[The Forum] offers,” announced the ecstatic Professor, “the real possibility of building a new international.” The title of the Forum, ‘Another World is Possible,’ underscored the real purpose of the event: to build the burgeoning Left-wing movement from a protest to a party. weiter lesen

Thomas Williams is a twelve year old boy. He lives in the lower income part of the city and goes to a school that is overcrowded. The classroom he sits in every morning was meant to hold 20 students when it was built in the 1950’s but now sees itself with 40. He is not able get the attention that he deserves. The teacher can only invest a few minutes of her time to him everyday. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are living just above the poverty line and survive paycheck to paycheck. They yearn to move out of their dilapidated surroundings and enroll their son in a better school, but their situation will not allow it, so they must stay. weiter lesen