English (subtitled), 74 min, 2004, USA
‘Rumble in Mumbai’ documents the World Social Forum held in Mumbai, India, in January 2004. Over 100,000 people attended the forum, all looking to build solidarity — and a better world.
With interviews of Shirin Ebadi, Jose Bove, and Walden Bello, and featuring the eloquent speeches of Arundhati Roy, Mustafe Barghouti, Jeremy Corbyn, and Irene Khan, ‘Rumble in Mumbai’ is packed with high-caliber critiques of neo-liberalism gone awry, and damning indictments of the ill effects of globalization.
And as with the forum itself, marginalized voices are given a platform here to air their grievances: Dalit rights, South Asian LGBT issues, handloom weaver unionization, cummunalism and secretarianism, the plight of Palestinians living in the shadow of a new apartheid wall — these issues and many more are explored.