ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the activity of organizing along with the more general organization of the alterglobalization movement, often characterized as horizontal, egalitarian and non-hierarchical. It begins with the way the activist world exists as a 'network' and then examines the role of meetings and leaders in its organization. Larzac-Millau activists frequently speak of the 'activist network' which allows the incorporation of both local people and those from further afield into a united social movement, one in which the range of participants are all broadly opposed to neoliberal globalization. The network emerges most concretely through the activity of communication which takes place in meetings, protests, through mail, the Internet, word of mouth and the telephone. Despite its formal status as an 'association' under French law, Construire un Monde Solidaire, as Catherine once described it, was a 'network'. Many of the committees operated along similar lines, each enacting networks of their own and resulting in a 'network of networks', in Hannerz phrase's.
