There’s something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva, which aim at coming up with a new agreement to bring down tariffs in order to expand world trade and resuscitate global growth. In the face of the looming specter of climate change, these negotiations amount to arguing over the arrangement of deck chairs while the Titanic is sinking.

Indeed, one of the most important steps in the struggle to come up with a viable strategy to deal with climate change would be the derailment of the so-called “Doha Round.”

by NAOMI KLEIN

This article appeared in the November 30, 2009 edition of The Nation.
November 11, 2009

The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It's set to come out ten years after a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, the spark that ignited a global anticorporate movement.

By Patrick Bond

23 October 2009

The decade since the Seattle World Trade Organisation (WTO) fiasco taught civil society activists and African leaders two powerful lessons. First, working together, they have the power to disrupt a system of global governance that meets the Global North’s short-term interests against both the Global South and the longer-term interests of the world’s people and the planet.

Second, in the very act of disrupting global malgovernance, major concessions can be won.

by David Korten
posted Jul 15, 2009
At this stage of history, one of two things is possible: Either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests guided by values of solidarity and sympathy and concern for others, or alternatively there will be no destiny to control.
—Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent

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

On this page, you'll find pdf files you can download and print to create a postcard you can use to promote this website and let other folks know about the People's History of Resistance to the WTO!

We've included a color and a black & white version (there is a front & a back file for each one) - print, copy, forward, & distribute widely!

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Members of a class-action lawsuit have joined forces to donate

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