Globalization is by some authors considered as a process of increased cultural, political and economic interdependence that de-centers the national scale and locus of contentious action. Departing from the question about the impact of globalization processes on collective action as suggested by these North-centric theories, this article shows an in-depth analysis of the Argentinean branch of the continental anti-Free Trade Area of the Americas coalition -a Southern case of a coalition of local actors confronting a global process that evolved with success in the opposite direction to the proposed by some Northern theories of globalized collective action.