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Journalist and author DW Gibson tells the story of the protests, the WTO meetings and the police response in his new book, “One Week to Change the World” (out June 18).
The protests against the WTO Conference in 1999 were short-lived. But their legacy has reverberated through American political life ever since.
The group organizing demonstrations and protests against the WTO event in Seattle, Woodward says, was called Direct Action Network (DAN). In November 1999, ...
Social media is undermining the power of protest by framing it as "cringe," making the front line of change weaker.
The protests that all but shut down last year's World Trade Organization meeting may have been a surprise, but they were no fluke, organizers and observers say. Instead, they marked the emergence of a ...
The WTO protests have been framed largely as a protest from the left. But there were other threads running through them that have turned out to be even more important in the long run. GOP far right ...
Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske on Friday praised and defended his officers who first watched, then cracked down on demonstrations marking the first anniversary of the World Trade ...