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This is a good piece overall. A few thoughts.

It'd be a useful primer for new activists to connect to some history and some debates.

The global justice movement in the U.S. was already falling apart pre-9/11 due to feelings of protests and summit mobilizations being a dead end held by many participants, as well as assorted intragroup conflict. Minimizing that fact and rewriting the history of what happened lessons the usefulness of this piece by avoiding (unintentionally I imagine) the real conflicts that led to demobilization before September. No one writes about it really because it tarnishes the history of the 'glory days' of a few dozen organizers and academics who have led the way in making things look a lot rosier than they ever were.

The author really overlooks an absolutely remarkable number of struggles in the 80s, 90s and 2000s that were part of the NVDA movement, in one way or another (using the timeframe the author sets up which, while provocative, is questionable to me). For example, Earth First!'s militancy, the '80s international solidarity movements, the proliferation of FNB chapters etc. In presenting a history that boils down to Clamshell -> Seattle -> Occupy there's far too much left out that makes it a much less nuanced story with all sorts of internal struggles around these issues.