*Best of 2025 - WTO/99 - Director Ian Bell
Director Ian Bell joins us to recount the consequential history that took place from November 30th to December 3rd 1999, when tens of thousands of people occupied the streets of downtown Seattle to make known their concerns about the existence of the World Trade Organization and its impacts on the environment, human rights, and labor in the largest protests against economic globalization the US has ever seen. The protests brought together people from divergent sections of society— environmentalists, labor unions, consumer protection advocates, pro-democracy groups, anarchists and even…
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