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The Battle for Reality
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David Solnit was one of the Direct Action Network organizers for the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle. He looks at what really happened in Seattle, what politicians and the mainstream media have done with the story, and what difference the new movie "Battle in Seattle" might make to public thinking about the 1999 demonstrations.
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Issues
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Purple America
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7 Ways the Battle of Seattle Changed the World
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Ten years later, the protests of 1999 are still having an impact.
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People Power
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The WTO and the Myth of Activist Violence
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The people who have made our world through direct action have been treated as dangerous, even if they are revered when their radical acts are at a safe distance.
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People Power
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The World Turned Out in Seattle
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WTO+10: The 1999 protests changed America's image in the eyes of the world, crippled the WTO, and energized an international civil movement for social and economic justice.
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People Power
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One More Thing Seattle's WTO Shutdown Taught the World
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Among the many ripple effects of the successful shutdown of the WTO in Seattle in 1999 is one that few know about. The organizing that went into the direct action, marches, media center, and forums inspired the organizers of the World Social Forums, which have become some of the world's most important centers of people power.
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YES! Blogs
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Sarah van Gelder
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Seattle + 10
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Time to declare our independence from Wall Street
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New Economy
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The "Battle in Seattle" at 10
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WTO+10: Did the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization actually make a difference?
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New Economy
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The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action
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WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action.
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New Economy
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Waking Up to the Dangers of "Free Trade"
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WTO+10: When Fran Korten first started warning people about NAFTA, many had never heard of it. But the 1999 protests in Seattle showed that Americans were learning what many in the developing world had known for years: free trade agreements are not just esoteric rules about what goods can cross borders. They are about who rules—corporations or people.
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New Economy
