Produced November/December '99 by Big Noise Films, Changing America, Headwaters Action Video Collective, JustAct, Paper Tiger TV, Sleeping Giant Productions, VideoActive and Whispered Media, and Wholesome Goodness in conjunction with the Independent Media Center (IMC). (5, half-hour shows)

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     Showdown in Seattle is a five part series that features an on-the-ground, non-corporate perspective and analysis you won't find anywhere else, in addition to incredible footage of police repression and popular resistance. Each half hour show is made up of segments produced by an unprecedented collaboration of video artists and activists from around the U.S. working under the umbrella of the Independent Media Center. The programs in this series were produced on location in Seattle and satellitecast across the North America on each day of the WTO ministerial. Each show focuses on a general theme (Overview, Labor and Human Rights, Women and Development, Agriculture and Environment, and a Wrap-up) while remaining as fluid as the daily protests. The shows are lively and colorful, full of footage from the streets and meaningful interviews with protest participants. Acclaimed thinkers, such as Michael Parenti, Vandana Shiva andKevin Danaher provide engaging critiques of the WTO, corporate globalization and the corporate-owned media.

 

Watch:
Showdown in Seattle, Part 1 of 5
Showdown in Seattle, Part 2 of 5
Showdown in Seattle, Part 3 of 5 [ 80 kbps ] [ 200 kbps ]
courtesy seattle.indymedia.org

Articles:
A letter from Seatle, by Micheal Moore
Notes on Seattle, by Mark Hosler of Negativeland
Notes from Seattle, by Jeff Taylor

Reviews:
Seattle Times
Alternative Press Review
Video Librarian

Links:
The ACLU is continuing to monitor the symptoms and stories that are arising out of the police's misconduct. Their page is set-up to do just that and it is also linked off of the DAN website
Adbusters' page on the WTO An interesting page that raises key questions
Center For International Environmental Law
Chemical Cops People often ask about the nature of the "tear gas" and other chemical weapons used by modern american police against nonviolent protestors. This posting by In These Times is very informative
Corporate Watch A great corporate watchdog on the web.
Direct Action Network (DAN) Direct Action gets the goods! DAN is on the cutting edge of blockading and other direct action techniques and they are dedicated to global justice. Visit this site and get involved!
Food First The Institute for Food and Development Policy, FOOD FIRST - takes on issues of genetic engineering, overuse of pesticides, the fallacies of "high-yield" varities and explores truly sustainable and equitable options. They were very active in Seattle and DC
Global Action This group looks unflinchingly at the real issues surrounding the top-down, centralized, eurocentric ways of treating the world that the WTO represents and makes the case for a variety of tactics when confronting unaccountable corporate power. Plus, it features a great graphic, "Greetings from Seattle."
Global Arcade The "Virtual Empowerment Center": an innovative site combining entertaining shockwave video games and engaging articles to deftly illustrate issues of corporate globalization.
Global Exchange's page on the Global Economy This page is a guide to the "rulemakers" of the global economy.
JustAct JustAct promotes youth leadership and action for global justice.
International Forum on Globalization (IFG) The IFG was among the first organizations to warn of the dangers of corporate globalization, and they organized teach-ins leading up to Seattle, and also the protests against the World Bank and IMF Cassettes of their teach-in are available on their website.
International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Members of the ILWU shut down the major ports all along the West Coast on November 30. This page from their website explains where they stand on the WTO, the Mobilization to free Mumia, and other issues.
National Lawyer's Guild Guild lawyers were present in Seattle and provided invaluable advice and services to protesters and onlookers. They are continuing to monitor cases involving police brutality and excessive use of chemical weapons in Seattle.
Project Underground This site also contains legal updates and contact information for people who were abused by authorities in Seattle
Rainforest Action Network
Ruckus Society The Ruckus Society is a group that trains budding activists in the latest direct action techniques.
seattle.indymedia.org Seattle Independent Media Center
Third World Network The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues.
Tradewatch's page on Globalization Maintained by Public Citizen - this site continues to inform people on the dangers of bad trade agreements and bogus bodies like the WTO.
United Steelworkers of America (USWA) Do you remember reading about the Boston Tea Party? The Steelworkers were very instrumental in helping to facilitate a huge labor presence, in Seattle, to object to the WTO's horrible record on labor issues. An excerpt from their website, "Hundreds of Steelworkers were joined by more than a thousand student protesters at the port of Seattle yesterday where they dumped mock steel I-beams into the water in a demonstration aimed at dramatizing the continuing crisis of foreign steel being dumped on the American market. Human rights, environmental and student activists joined trade union protests throughout the week in what is a growing and broad-based coalition in opposition to the unfair trade practices advanced by the World Trade Organization (WTO)."
WTO's own homepage
Gatt.org Yet Another WTO homepage? You decide.

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