The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle

By Rebecca Solnit, David Solnit

Subjects: United states, historiography, World Trade Organization. Ministerial Conference, Anti-globalization movement, Manifestations, Mouvements antimondialisation, Washington (state), politics and government, Cas, Études de, Historiography, Organisation mondiale du commerce, Demonstrations, Organisation mondiale du commerce. Conférence ministérielle, 03, Press coverage, World trade organization

Description: Summary:"From dawn to dusk on November 30, 1999, tens of thousands of people shut down the World Trade Organization meeting, facing cops firing tear gas and rubber bullets, the National Guard, and the suspension of civil liberties. An unexpected history was launched from the streets of Seattle, one in which popular power would matter as much as corporate power, in which economics assumed center stage, and people began envisioning who else they could be and what else their economies and societies might look like." "The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle explores how that history itself has become a battleground and how our perception of it shapes today's movements against corporate capitalism and for a better world."--Jacket