About the movie "Battle in Seattle"

Seattle WTO Ten Years: Global/Local Days of Action: Nov 27 - Dec 5, 2009

david — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:01:54 -0500

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

david — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:15:00 -0500

Raj Patel
December 3, 2008
Americas Policy Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)

Battle for the spirit of the Seattle demonstrations

david — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:07:30 -0500

Reviewed by Dani Barley
Direct Action Website

http://directaction.org.au/issue6/battle_in_seattle

Let's Renegotiate NAFTA and the WTO Agreement

david — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:57:22 -0500

By Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet
September 30, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/101027/

Sleepwalking Through Seattle

david — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:22:24 -0500

By 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

david — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:23:03 -0400

by 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

david — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:16:39 -0400

FILM 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

david — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:15:38 -0400

Battle 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?”

david — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:22:23 -0400

“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

david — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:15:44 -0400

SF 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.