ABSTRACT
The World Social Forum (WSF) is just one of the more visible forums of globalizing resistance that has erupted since the acceleration of corporate globalization itself, a potential harbinger of a new era of global labor, global environmental groups, global peace movements, and other popular movements unprecedented in the extent of their global communication and shared global identity. Many have seen the WSF as a jazzlike space for improvisation while still admiring its capacity to bring together activists for dramatic actions like 2003's Global Day of Action against the Iraq war, or for coordinating campaigns to challenge corporations. Pope Francis's Encyclical on Climate and Inequality, issued in 2015, marked an important turning point in progressive global universalizing resistance. Anti-globalization and anti-corporate globalization in progressive circles helps build localizing movements on the Left that agitate for community economics and local production as a more democratic and sustainable model than globalized production.
