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."

Here is a quick image to get started... I'l post more snippets later.

Roaming the streets on N30. It has been so long I can't remember the name of the intersections anymore.

One of the environmental groups (Greenpeace, perhaps? Or the Humane Society?) brought a giant inflatable killer whale. Huge, perhaps 30' long.

(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 ...

Showdown in Seattle, the WTO, the Protest of the Century… Well, it’s been more than a month since the exciting events in Seattle. Many of us who wre there are still energized by it, but there’s no mistaking the sense that it’s all fading away. What seemed so remarkable and so unprecedented on November 30, the physical stopping of the WTO meeting by thousands of protesters clogging the streets of Seattle, has been reported, discussed, analyzed, argued, categorized, marginalized, and subjected to the self-serving spin of everyone from network pundits to leftist militants.

The Shocking and Awful series is the document of the events that came out of that first Indymedia center. Over 100 Videographers contributed footage, and 30 minutes of programming was produced daily, uplinked to satellite, and rebroadcast by approximately 75 public access stations around the country, as well as on Free Speech TV. You can check out all the programs at deepdishtv.org. Search the catalogue for Showdown in Seattle, and "view program details."

It was one of the most incredible weeks of my life, in all honestly. It changed me forever.

"And, we are there!" ... Here is a link to a promotional video for Defense Technologies Federal Laboraties (makers of the finest in "less-lethal" crowd crontrol products.) "Seattle, 1999, riots break out, and we are there ... "

Here on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0QoCrqYhP8

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.