World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. The World Trade Organization’s meeting in Seattle of November 1999, for example, “saw the birth, and to date, the high point of this new mode of activism,” where protesters aimed to “shut down, or at least badly disrupt, the meetings of the global elite” (Angry and Effective, 2). Protestors have greater aims than simply disrupting the work of international organizations; they wish to bring attention to a variety of issues. The major issues of globalization that have prompted people to protest are environmental destruction, human rights standards, labor injustices, and the growth of multinational corporations. Specific problems within these issues include industrialized countries exploit the resources of developing countries, corporations exploit underprivileged people in labor, the outsourcing of jobs, and corporations transforming culture and consumerism. Other issues that prompt protests are animal rights, the distribution of wealth (inequality), and the loss of culture and tradition. While each of these issues, no matter how few or many protest them, hold importance, some are more convincing reasons for protest than others. The vast disparity in wealth between the upper class and the impoverished, and developed countries and developing is staggering. As globalization has continued, multinational corporations, foreign investors, and citizens of more powerful nations have entered a time of great prosperity and a high standard of living, much at the expense of the third world. Much of globalization has become an “affair of the industrial North…destroying local cultures, widening world inequalities and worsening the lot of the impoverished, the majority condemned to a life of misery and despair” (Giddens, 33). Although this is a rather pessimistic view of globalization, statistics prove the daunting truth of disparity: “The UN Development Program reports that the richest 20% of the world’s population consume 86% of the world’s resources while the poorest 80% consume just 14%.” (Top Ten Reasons, 2). One of the main reasons for the growing disparity is that more powerful countries already have

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