CONTENTS

I / Windows of Dissent

Washington, D.C.

II / Fencing in Democracy: Trade and Trade-Offs

Democracy in Shackles

The Free Trade Area of the Americas

No Place for Local Democracy

The War on Unions

The NAFTA Track Record

Higher Fences at the Border

Making—and Breaking—the Rules

The Market Swallows the Commons

Genetically Altered Rice

Genetic Pollution

Foot-and-Mouth’s Sacrificial Lambs

The Internet as Tupperware Party

Co-opting Dissent

Economic Apartheid in South Africa

Poison Policies in Ontario

America’s Weakest Front

III / Fencing in the Movement: Criminalizing Dissent

Cross-Border Policing

Pre-emptive Arrest

The “Citizens Caged” Petition

Indiscriminate Tear-Gassing

Getting Used to Violence

Manufacturing Threats

Stuck in the Spectacle

IV /Capitalizing on Terror

The Brutal Calculus of Suffering

New Opportunists

Kamikaze Capitalists

The Terrifying Return of Great Men

America Is Not a Hamburger

V / Windows to Democracy

Democratizing the Movement

Rebellion in Chiapas

Italy’s Social Centres

Limits of Political Parties

From Symbols to Substance

Acknowledgments