So if one looks at the larger movement and the swelling of the ranks of globalization activists around the world, one would have to conclude that this is truly a crossnational movement and very possibly the first truly global movement. - P48
That is to say, the movement was pluralist; it came from many directions, including a constructive critique of the failures of the 1960s and an ethics of power. So you could say that Seattle arose not only from addressing the problem that is "them"—the corporations and governments—but from the problems that have often been "us," the activists, the radicals, the revolution. Its success came out of addressing both of these fronts, a response many years in the making. And out of the moment. - P50