1.
THE MOVEMENT OF MOVEMENTS:
NIXERS AND FIXERS IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
Daniel Drache, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director
Blake Evans, Graduate Researcher
A Digital Report From
The Counter-Publics Working Group
Please Send Comments To drache@yorku.ca
October 2004
Eye
Conics

2.
The Medium Is The Message
Digital Technology Has Altered How Activists
Relate To One Another. For The First Time The
Web Can Be Used To Effectively Link Local And
Global Struggles. Independent News Is “Only A
Click Away”, All Around Us, Inescapable.

3.
Disturbing Images From The 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
Helped Bring Dissent To The World's Attention

4.
These Iconic Images Tell The Story Of A Movement No
Longer In The Margins, But Neither In The Mainstream

5.
A Global War On Want Which Didn't Start In Seattle,
And Whose Ending Is Nowhere In Sight

6.
The “Movement Of Movements” Is Bigger,
More Diverse, And Has More Staying Power Than Any
Experts Had Predicted

7.
Differences Can
Sometimes Be
Unifying Forces. In
This Case, People
Converge Based On A
Mutual Dislike Of
Corporate Capitalism,
Free Trade, American
Imperialism, And
More Than Anything,
State Authority.

8.
Some Want To Fix The System...

9.
Others Want To Nix It Altogether

10.
Both The Nixers And The Fixers Have Their
Share Of Iconic Talking Heads.
Kofi Annan
Vandana Shiva

11.
Reform Or Revolution?
Are You A Nixer, Or
Are You A Fixer? Most
Of Us Lie Somewhere In
Between.
The 'Devil Is In The
Eyecon'.

12.
Iconic Ideas Subvert The Dominant Paradigm

13.
Why Does The Most Powerful Organization In The
World, The Organization Which Wants To Re-brand
Our Values And Our Identities, Have No Logo?
WTO HQ Geneva
World Trade Centre
GATT, The Founding Meeting

14.
Carnival Against Capitalism:
“If I Can't Dance, It's Not My Revolution”
Raging Grannies
Radical Cheerleaders

15.
Global Dissent: Individual
Acts Of Rebellion,
Organized Chaos or Mass
Collective Action?

16.
But Can A 'Basis Of Unity' Emerge Out Of Diversity Of
Tactics: Can Different Means Achieve The Same Ends?

17.
The State Calls Out Riot Cops To
Do The Dirty Work

18.
The Surveillance State And Preventive Arrest

19.
Crowd Control

20.
Violent Exclusion

21.
Global Village For Business.

22.
Global Pillage For The
Rest Of Us

23.
Fighting Back Defines Global Politics

24.
The Battle in Seattle, December 1999.
WTO Conference.

25.
Washington's Newest Consensus, April 2000.
IMF & World Bank Annual Meetings.

26.
Prague, September 2000.
IMF/World Bank.

27.
Clash In Montreal, November 2000.
Group Of 20.

28.
Davos, January 2001.
World Economic Forum.

29.
Quebec City's Wall Of Shame, April 2001.
Free Trade Area Of The Americas.

30.
Death In Genoa, June 2001.
G8 Summit.

31.
Shock And Awe Fuels World Protest

32.
The World Marches: 25 Million People Worldwide
Protest Bush's War.
Barcelona, Spain
Bankok, Thailand
Cairo, Egypt

33.
Jakarta, Indonesia
Pretoria, South Africa
Sydney, Australia
Calcutta, India
Tokyo, Japan
Washington DC, USA

34.
London Bush Comes Tumbling Down

35.
While Washington Bush Gets Four More Years

36.
Icons Hold A Revolutionary Potential That Can Bring
Dissent To The Public, And Bring The Public To Dissent

37.
Unlike Globalization, Theirs Is The Story Of A Democratic
Art Form Aimed At Mobilizing Counter-Publics

38.
A Story Whose End Has Yet To Be Written