Below is an account of the N30 protests I wrote shortly after the tear gas cleared and the WTO left Seattle in disarray. I had come to Seattle a week before the protests to write about it for my website.

November 30, 2008

What lessons can we learn from the shutdown of the 1999 WTO
Ministerial in Seattle 9 years ago today and from the last decade and
a half of global justice organizing as we face today's major crises
under an Obama Administration? This was the question a group of
organizers from different parts of the last decades of global justice
organizing responded to last week at a forum in New York City put
together by Deep Dish TV, an independent video/media pioneer. Here are
my thoughts.

Nine years ago today:

What I Learned At The WTO Protests In Seattle...
by Pete Tridish,

A Ruckus I Couldn't Miss:

What I Learned At The WTO Protests In Seattle...
by Pete Tridish,

A Ruckus I Couldn't Miss

My name is Storm, i am 47 years old, and i identify as Revolutionary Ecologist, eco-anarchist, and a radikal scientist. I work principally under the auspices of Earth First! and Rising Tide North America. I was born white, male, rather hetero-oriented, working class amerikan...i would not consider myself "well-adjusted."

(This article was originally published in the December 1999 issue of UltraViolet, newsletter of LAGAI Queer Insurrection. More recent issues of UV are online at www.lagai.org.)

This article was originally published in the December 1999 issue of UltraViolet, the newsletter of LAGAI - Queer Insurrection (more recent issues are online at www.lagai.org).

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Leftist Revisionist / Battle in Seattle
Current mood: hopeful
Category: News and Politics

Dear David Solnit,

I went to the recent screening of "Battle in Seattle" and I stayed for the monologues that followed. I was disappointed in the movie and in what Kevin and Randy had to say. But, I was glad that you were there and that you chose to speak. I gathered from what you said that you and I would have similar critiques of the movie ...

by Mark Hosler of Negativland
(www.negativland.com)

On Tuesday, November 30th, 1999 (and shortly before moving from Olympia, Washington to Santa Fe, New Mexico), I was part of the march and direct action protest against the WTO that was organized by the DIRECT ACTION NETWORK in Seattle.

[published/posted Dec. 13, 1999 in Raptorial 'zine]

THE AMBRO WEEK IN REVIEW!

BY JOHN AMBROSAVAGE - YOUR CORRESPONDENT!

SUSPECTED TERRORIST SEIZED AT PORT ANGELES!

IT IS SUSPECTED THE SUSPECT WANTED TO BLOW UP THE SPACE NEEDLE NEW YEAR'S EVE!

WHY NOT BLOW UP THE KINGDOME INSTEAD? IT'S SLATED FOR DEMOLITION - MAYBE THE CITY COULD WORK OUT SOME KIND OF DEAL WITH THE TERRORIST- HE'S GOT EVERYTHING WE NEED IN THE TRUNK OF HIS CAR! COULD SAVE SOME BIG DEMOLITION DOLLARS!

THE OUTRAGE CONTINUES!