The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization

by Yuen, Eddie; Katsiaficas, George; Rose, Daniel Burton

• ISBN13: 9781887128667
• ISBN10: 1887128662
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

The 1999 World Trade Organization conference in Seattle sparked significant clashes between government and corporate forces and activists. This anthology thoroughly documents the event and includes essays by such authors as Alexander Cockburn and Medea Benjamin.

Table of Contents

I. A Gathering Storm
Introduction	3	(18)
Eddie Yuen
Who Needs the WTO? The Surrealist Movement in America	21	(4)
Revolt of the Globalized
Internationalism Against Globalization	25	(4)
James Davis
Paul Rowley
Seattle Was Not the Beginning	29	(8)
George Katsiaficas
Zapatsimo and the Politics of Solidarity	37	(4)
Manuel Callahan
Migrants	41	(6)
Associazionne Ya Basta!
Resisting Global Capitalism in India	47	(6)
Jaggi Singh
Roots of the Movement
Not Your Parents' Protest	53	(6)
Barbara Epstein
Scaling the Heights of Seattle	59	(10)
David Kubrin
Reclaiming the Streets, Then the World
Germany's Autonomen	69	(4)
George Katsiaficas
World Trashed Organization! A SchNEWS Correspondent	73	(4)
Global Carnival Against Capital	77	(6)
Katherine Ainger
II. N30 Aftermath
The Globalization of Resistance	83	(10)
Mark Laskey
So Who Did Win in Seattle? Liberals Rewrite History	93	(6)
Alexander Cockburn
Jeffrey St. Clair
Anarkids and Hypocrites	99	(4)
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Breakdown Inside the Ministerial	103	(6)
Paul Richmond
Rebellion and Repression
A Place for Rage	109	(6)
Rachel Neumann
N30 Communique ACME Collective	115	(6)
Imagine	121	(4)
Geov Parrish
Who Are Those Masked Anarchists?	125	(6)
L.A. Kauffman
Jail Solidarity in Seattle	131	(8)
Kari Lydersen
Police State Targets the Left	139	(14)
Jim Redden
Mass Action Since Seattle	153	(22)
George Lakey
III. Uneasy Alliances
This Is What Bureaucracy Looks Like	175	(8)
Jim Davis
The Meaning of Seattle	183	(12)
Noam Chomsky
Seeds of a Movement	195	(8)
Stanley Aronowitz
Together with the Right Against Globalization?
Millenium Round of the WTO Under Fire From Both the Left and Right	203	(6)
Alain Kessi
Seattle `99: Wedding Party of the Left and Right?	209	(6)
Eric Krebbers
Merijn Schoenmaker
The Showdown Before Seattle	215	(10)
Kristine Wong
Spark, Fire and Burning Coals	225	(12)
Stephanie Guilloud
IV. The Movement So Far
Where Was the Color at A16?	237	(4)
Colin Rajah
Mayday Diary	241	(6)
Jay Griffiths
The Battle of Philadelphia	247	(4)
David Lindorff
Throwing Away the Key	251	(2)
David Lindorff
Prague 2000: The People's Battle	253	(16)
Boris Kagarlitsky
Infernal Pain In Prague	269	(6)
pol potlash
fran harris
paul hawkin
Direct Action Convergences Y2K	275	(8)
Andrea del Moral
Holidays in the Sun	283	(6)
Ramor Ryan
Genova and the Antiglobalization Movement	289	(12)
Silvia Federici
George Caffentzis
And Balanced With This Life, This Death	301	(10)
Ramor Ryan
V. Watershed: Towards a New Movement
The Vision Thing	311	(8)
Naomi Klein
Is there an Alternative to Capitalist Globalization?	319	(8)
George Katsiaficas
New Movements
The New Student Movement	327	(8)
Liza Featherstone
An Experiment in Media Democracy	335	(4)
Jeffrey Perlstein
A New Movement on the Horizon	339	(4)
John Zerzan
Color Blind	343	(4)
Andrew Hsiao
From Seattle to South Central	347	(6)
Juan Gonzalez
Spiritual Warfare	353	(6)
Hakim Bey
On Populism and the Antiglobalist Movement	359	(12)
James O'Connor
Glossary	371	(15)
Iain Boal
Notes on Contributors	386	(5)
Resources	391	(1)
Index	392