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Feb 15, 2020

Mark Taylor-Canfield recounts his witness of the Seattle  protests in 1999 during the World Trade Organization negotiations on economic globalization. The conference ended with participants unable to reach an agreement, in part due to the protests.

 

Known as the Battle-in-Seattle. Tens of thousands of people took to...


Feb 10, 2020

In honor of the 20th Anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle. In November 1999, tens of thousands of people filled Seattle’s streets to protest the World Trade Organization. For an entire week, the whole world watched as grassroots activists, labor, environmentalists, farmers, anarchists, and artists made history....