The Battle in Seattle, 22 Years Later w/ the Shutdown WTO Organizers History Project (G&R 124)

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Nov 30, 2021 · 1h 1m

It’s the 22nd anniversary of the direct action shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle. The WTO is a transnational economic institution created to regulate and facilitate global (corporate) trade. Organized by a scrappy group of organizers, the shutdown kicked off an anti-corporate globalization moment in North America which challenged austerity and the capitalist political economy. Globally, those movements had already been fighting austerity and corporate power for decades.

We talk with Nancy Haque, Stephanie Guilloud and David Solnit (@dsolnit)- three organizers…