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Seattle Ripple Effects
December 29, 1999
Listen/download helpIt was one of the largest and most effective outpourings of dissent in recent decades. Many institutions, organizations, and individuals are now reflecting on the significance of events in Seattle during the week after Thanksgiving 1999 that disrupted the summit of the World Trade Organization. On this program, we take a look at ripple effects from Seattle's protests.
Featuring:
Elaine Bernard, Harvard University Trade Union Program; Mike Prokosch, United For a Fair Economy; Craig Webster and David Solnit, Direct Action Network; Paul Bristow, Seattle protester; Mary Fleur, former rubber glove factory worker; Paul Nicholson, Basque farmer, member of Via Campesina; Bill Christison, National Family Farm Coalition; Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Indigenous Network for Policy Research and Education; Amparo Reyes, assembly worker; Adam Ma-a-Nit. He's with the Corporate Europe Observatory; Sanjay Mangala Gopal, co-coordinator, National Alliance of Peoples Movements in India.
For more information:
Elaine Bernard
Harvard University Trade Union Program
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Rm. 731
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-9265; fax: 617-496-7359; htup@harvard.edu
Mike Prokosch
United For a Fair Economy
37 Temple Pl., 2nd Fl.
Boston, MA. 02111
617-423-2148; fax: 617-423-0191; stw@stw.org
www.stw.org
Craig Webster and David Solnit
Direct Action Network c/o C.A.N.
P.O.Box 95113
Seattle, WA. 98145
206-654-6779
www.directactionnetwork.org