ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how critical social movements and anti-globalization protests, have engaged with an alternative strategic debate on the meaning, nature and site of political power and what it means to be engaged with a politics of resistance to globalization. The National Consulta included a process of preparation, diffusion and realization of the consultation for an all inclusive mobilization on the character of municipalities, regions and states. The world of neoliberalism is a world of economic, political, cultural and social exclusion, and a world of increasing poverty wrought by the bellicose 'race to the bottom'. According to the Encuentros, the new technologies will be a 'true space for democratic struggle' in a struggle for humanity against neoliberalism 'a new form of participation' in Mexico and part of a worldwide struggle'. The 1996 encounters reverberated through networks of local resistances by cultivating a global solidarity through non-hierachical critical social movements.
