Carlo Giuliani

Carlo Giuliani
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On July 20th, an Italian policeman shot and killed a man named Carlo Giuliani during a fierce scuffle between demonstrators and authorities at the Group of 8 summit in Genoa, attended by the leaders of the seven wealthiest nations, Russia, and, this year, 100,000 protestors.

Make that 99,999.

Giuliani was no saint -- he's said to have had various weapons charges on his record, and he went down hurling a fire extinguisher like a mortar shell at police -- but his death promises to mark a turning point for the world-wide movement gathered under the catch-all banner of "anti-globalization."

The ages of Giuliani and the policeman who shot him -- 23 and 20 -- remind us that both were mere foot soldiers in a much larger struggle.
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On the other, the many prophets of anti-globalization: environmental druids, anarchist ninjas, union organizers, policy grinders, pacifists, political prisoners, poor people, and squatters like Carlo Giuliani -- a vast array opposed for various reasons to the neo-liberal attempt to enclose all that is alive and mysterious in a set of trade agreements and holding corporations.
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Men and women have died in the globalization struggle already, but the shot that killed Carlo Giuliani in Genoa seems to be the one heard around the world, echoing through the pages of newspapers all over the planet.