Global Racism

Alternative to Global Racism

There is an implicit  North-South global alliance that introduces issues of power and international racism into the distribution of planetary resources, energy consumption, and toxic waste.

Global Theatrics and Capitalism: Proposed paper for Theatrics Symposium for 2001 Academy of Management - D. Boje

Vol. 3, issue 2, ISSN: 1532-5555  Papers Due to TAMARA June 15, 2002 (issue scheduled for Aug 1, 2002) Proposed Theme: Global Racism and Decolonising - A generic context setting, focusing on global racism within the context of rethinking the institutions and
ethics of development and globalization. TAMARA JOURNAL at http://www.zianet.com/boje/tamara/

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BACKGROUND:
It is appalling how Northern corporations function in the Global South, demonstrating a lack of concern for local environmental and social ethics and needs, disrupting human-ecology interactions within which labor functions. Such exclusions lead not only to malpractices that are internationally  endorsed as 'norm' and 'equitable', but lends to social and ecological violence that characterizes much of life in the postcolonial South. The issue is to rethink labor practices, within a larger context that compels a reframing of the institutions and ethics of development and globalization. 

Global racism is embedded in the ideologies and social structures of global capitalism. Ideologies of racial/ethnic superiority shape the organization of supply chains. Despite continuing proliferation of Codes of Conduct, there is a global division of sweatshop labor.

Indigenous people, from New Zealand, Australia, Bolivia, Greenland, Alaska, India or Botswana -- view land as essential to survival. The relationship to Mother Earth is sacred, part of cultural and spiritual identity. The extraction of indigenous land-resources through mining, logging, tourism, etc. -- threatens traditional ways of life.  Models of economic development imposed by the "developed" nations exploit natural resources without regard to the survival of traditional communities.

We can work to eliminate global racism by starting with our own community

A wide variety of groups are concerned with global racism, from church, anti-globalization, indigenous, to socialist:

As in other parts of the country, after the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, folks in Boston got excited and got moving... "There is great potential in the coming year(s). First, because capitalism’s worst impacts do fall on people of color around the world, there is an opportunity to address global racism. Second, with our growing population of immigrants whose families are still scattered around the globe, multinational unity can be built as our movement pays more attention to their homeland issues. Third, there is resistance building around the world. We are really followers here, following the lead of peoples in the global South."

See = Strengthening the New Movement