About the movie: Battle in Seattle
Seattle WTO Ten Years: Global/Local Days of Action: Nov 27 - Dec 5, 2009
Posted November 23rd, 2009 by david in
Our World is NOT for Sale!
Grassroots activists and organizations around the globe are planning local, regional and international actions/events to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the WTO demonstrations in Seattle, the 7th WTO Ministerial in Geneva (Nov 30-Dec 2), and the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (Dec 7-18)
http://www.wiserearth.org/group/seattle10
The WTO and Other Trade Tales
Posted December 18th, 2008 by davidRaj Patel
December 3, 2008
Americas Policy Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
Battle for the spirit of the Seattle demonstrations
Posted November 29th, 2008 by davidReviewed by Dani Barley
Direct Action Website
Let's Renegotiate NAFTA and the WTO Agreement
Posted November 27th, 2008 by davidBy Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet
September 30, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/101027/
Sleepwalking Through Seattle
Posted November 26th, 2008 by davidBy Brian Cook, InTheseTimes
About halfway through Battle in Seattle, writer/director Stuart Townsend's cinematic dramatization of the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle, a group of activists are watching a local TV station's coverage of the explosive events on the streets. Upon hearing the confrontations between the protesters and the police dubbed "The Battle in Seattle," one of the activists derisively scoffs, "Battle in Seattle? Sounds like a monster truck show!"
New Social Mov(i)ements: Battle in Seattle & The Port Huron Project
Posted October 17th, 2008 by davidby Sarahjane Blum
The Brooklyn Rail: critical perspectives on arts politics and culture
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/10/film/new-social-moviements
Putting the Bad in the Battle In Seattle
Posted October 17th, 2008 by davidFILM REVIEW / NICOLE WALLENBROCK.
The GC Advocate; student paper of the CUNY Graduate Center
http://gcadvocate.org/index.php/view/00358/Putting-the-bad-in-the-battle...
Cineaste: An Interview with Battle in Seattle director Stuart Townsend
Posted October 2nd, 2008 by davidBattle in Seattle
An Interview with Stuart Townsend
by Andrew Hedden
Stuart Townsend
On November 30, 1999, another cold, gray, and wet day in Seattle, Washington was transformed into a date in history. A broad network of 50,000 organized demonstrators, representing the concerns of labor, environmentalists, the global South and many others, effectively shut down the ministerial of the World Trade Organization. Police responses quickly spun out of control, and the National Guard was called in as the protests continued for several days afterwards.
An anarchist response to the Battle in Seattle.. “AND WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW?”
Posted October 2nd, 2008 by david“AND WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW?”
Anarchist Resistance and the “Blockbusterization” of Reality…
For pdf version designed to be handed out at movie showings go to:
http://shiftshapers.gnn.tv/blogs/29511/_And_What_About_Tomorrow_An_Anarc...
Indymedia Review
Posted October 2nd, 2008 by davidSF Activists Had Hand in Making of "Battle of Seattle"
However, Hollywood Hype Overarches Movie
by R. Robertson
Tuesday Sep 30th, 2008
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/30/18542059.php
Red-hot in a ruby designer gown, Actress Cherize Theron gushed praise on mainstream media television for her director boyfriend at the opening of "Battle in Seattle". The wall paper behind her screamed not-so-subtle product placement for couture fashion house Christian Dior. Contrast this with the causes Theron claims to clamor for: poverty, injustice, and misery around the world.