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79 relations: AFL–CIO, AK Press, Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-globalization movement, Banner drop, Battalion, Battle in Seattle, Bill Clinton, Black bloc, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Carnival Against Capital, Center for Public Integrity, Christopher DeLaurenti, Civil disobedience, Constitutional right, CrimethInc., Curfew, Dan Savage, Darwin, Northern Territory, David Graeber, Democracy Now!, Direct action, Direct Action Network, Downtown Seattle, Drama (film and television), Economic globalization, Electrohippies, Eugene, Oregon, Financial Times, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Free trade, Gary Locke, Global Exchange, Governor, Greg Nickels, Independent Media Center, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, International Monetary Fund, Joe Hill, Jubilee 2000, King County Sheriff's Office, List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States, Molotov cocktail, Non-governmental organization, Norm Stamper, North–South divide, Paul Schell, Peoples' Global Action, ..., Pepper spray, Perth, Probable cause, Property, Rebecca Solnit, Seattle, Seattle Center, Seattle Police Department, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Soft power, Stun grenade, Tear gas, The Independent, The Nation, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vandalism, Via Campesina, Washington (state), Washington Army National Guard, Washington State Convention Center, Washington State Patrol, Wendy McElroy, World Bank, World Trade Organization, World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999, 1988 IMF/World Bank protests, 30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle 2000, 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team. Expand index (29 more) »
AFL–CIO
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States.
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AK Press
AK Press is a worker-managed, independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature.
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.
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Anti-capitalism
Anti-capitalism encompasses a wide variety of movements, ideas and attitudes that oppose capitalism.
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Anti-globalization movement
The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization.
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Banner drop
A banner drop is the act of putting a banner in place as a protest tactic.
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Battalion
A battalion is a military unit.
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Battle in Seattle
Battle in Seattle is a 2007 political action-thriller film written and directed by Stuart Townsend, in his directorial debut.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Black bloc
A black bloc is a name given to groups of protesters who wear black clothing, scarves, sunglasses, ski masks, motorcycle helmets with padding, or other face-concealing and face-protecting items.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.
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Carnival Against Capital
The Global Carnival Against Capital took place on Friday, 18 June 1999.
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Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose stated mission is "to reveal abuses of power, corruption and dereliction of duty by powerful public and private institutions in order to cause them to operate with honesty, integrity, accountability and to put the public interest first." With over 50 staff members, the CPI is one of the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative centers in America.
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Christopher DeLaurenti
Christopher DeLaurenti (born 1977) is a Seattle-based composer, improvisor and phonographer.
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Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government or occupying international power.
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Constitutional right
A constitutional right can be a prerogative or a duty, a power or a restraint of power, recognized and established by a sovereign state or union of states.
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CrimethInc.
CrimethInc., also known as CWC, which stands for either "CrimethInc.
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Curfew
A curfew is an order specifying a time during which certain regulations apply.
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Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and activist for the LGBT community.
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Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.
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David Graeber
David Rolfe Graeber (born 12 February 1961) is an American anthropologist and anarchist activist, perhaps best known for his 2011 volume Debt: The First 5000 Years.
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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.
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Direct action
Direct action occurs when a group takes an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue.
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Direct Action Network
Direct Action Network (DAN) was a North American confederation of anti-corporate, anti-authoritarian and anarchist affinity groups, collectives, and organizations.
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Downtown Seattle
Downtown is the central business district of Seattle, Washington.
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Drama (film and television)
In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.
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Economic globalization
Economic globalization is one of the three main dimensions of globalization commonly found in academic literature, with the two others being political globalization and cultural globalization, as well as the general term of globalization.
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Electrohippies
The Electrohippies Collective (Ehippies) is an international group of internet activists based in Oxfordshire, England, whose purpose is to express disapproval of governmental policies of mass media censorship and control of the Internet "in order to provide a 'safe environment' for corporations to do their deals." (PDF) December 2000 communiqué of Electrohippies Collective.
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Eugene, Oregon
Eugene is a city of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Oregon.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.
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Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.
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Free trade
Free trade is a free market policy followed by some international markets in which countries' governments do not restrict imports from, or exports to, other countries.
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Gary Locke
Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 10th United States ambassador to China (2011–14).
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Global Exchange
Global Exchange is an advocacy group and non-governmental organization (NGO), based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Governor
A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state.
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Greg Nickels
Gregory J. "Greg" Nickels (born August 7, 1955) was the 51st mayor of Seattle, Washington.
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Independent Media Center
The Independent Media Center (also known as Indymedia or IMC) is a far-left open publishing network of journalist collectives that report on political and social issues.
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and Canada.
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International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
The is an independent think-and-do-tank, engaged in the provision of information, research and analysis, and policy and multistakeholder dialogue, as a not-for-profit organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of "189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world." Formed in 1945 at the Bretton Woods Conference primarily by the ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, it came into formal existence in 1945 with 29 member countries and the goal of reconstructing the international payment system.
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Joe Hill
Joe Hill (Gävle, Sweden, October 7, 1879 – Salt Lake City, Utah, November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies").
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Jubilee 2000
Jubilee 2000 was an international coalition movement in over 40 countries that called for cancellation of third world debt by the year 2000.
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King County Sheriff's Office
The King County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) is a local police agency in King County, Washington.
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List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States
Wikipedia has articles on most of the major episodes of civil unrest.
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Molotov cocktail
A Molotov cocktail, also known as a petrol bomb, bottle bomb, poor man's grenade, Molotovin koktaili (Finnish), polttopullo (Finnish), fire bomb (not to be confused with an actual fire bomb) or just Molotov, commonly shortened as Molly, is a generic name used for a variety of bottle-based improvised incendiary weapons.
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Non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.
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Norm Stamper
Norman Harvey Stamper (born 1944) is an American former chief of police and writer.
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North–South divide
The North–South divide is broadly considered a socio-economic and political divide.
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Paul Schell
Paul E. S. Schell (born Paul Ervin Schlachtenhaufen; October 8, 1937 – July 27, 2014), served as the 50th mayor of Seattle, Washington.
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Peoples' Global Action
Peoples' Global Action (PGA) is the name of a worldwide co-ordination of radical social movements, grassroots campaigns and direct actions in resistance to capitalism and for social and environmental justice.
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Pepper spray
Pepper spray (also known as capsicum spray) is a lachrymatory agent (a chemical compound that irritates the eyes to cause tears, pain, and temporary blindness) used in policing, riot control, crowd control, and self-defense, including defense against dogs and bears.
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Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.
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Probable cause
In United States criminal law, probable cause is the standard by which police authorities have reason to obtain a warrant for the arrest of a suspected criminal or the issuing of a search warrant.
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Property
Property, in the abstract, is what belongs to or with something, whether as an attribute or as a component of said thing.
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Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit (born June 24, 1961) is an American writer.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.
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Seattle Center
Originally built for the 1962 World's Fair, the Seattle Center is an arts, educational, tourism and entertainment center in Seattle.
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Seattle Police Department
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, except for the campus of the University of Washington, for which responsibility falls to the University of Washington Police Department.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Soft power
Soft power is the ability to attract and co-opt, rather than by coercion (hard power), which is using force or giving money as a means of persuasion.
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Stun grenade
A stun grenade, also known as a flash grenade, flashbang, thunderflash or sound bomb, is a non-lethal explosive device used to temporarily disorient an enemy's senses.
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Tear gas
Tear gas, formally known as a lachrymator agent or lachrymator (from the Latin lacrima, meaning "tear"), sometimes colloquially known as mace,"Mace" is a brand name for a tear gas spray is a chemical weapon that causes severe eye and respiratory pain, skin irritation, bleeding, and even blindness.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Vandalism
Vandalism is an "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property".
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Via Campesina
La Vía Campesina (from Spanish la vía campesina, the campesino way, or the peasants' way) was founded in 1993 by farmers organizations from Europe, Latin America, Asia, North America, Central America and Africa.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Washington Army National Guard
The Washington Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army and the Washington National Guard based in Washington.
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Washington State Convention Center
The Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) is a convention center in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Washington State Patrol
The Washington State Patrol (WSP) is the state police agency for the U.S. state of Washington.
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Wendy McElroy
Wendy McElroy (born 1951) is a Canadian individualist feminist and anarcho-capitalist writer.
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World Bank
The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.
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World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade.
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World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999
The WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 was a meeting of the World Trade Organization, convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington, USA, over the course of three days, beginning Tuesday, November 30, 1999.
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1988 IMF/World Bank protests
The 1988 annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank were met with an international protest in West Berlin.
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30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle 2000
30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle 2000 is a documentary film shot during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity and contains interviews with many of the protest leaders.
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81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team
The 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team is a modular brigade of the United States Army National Guard based in Washington, Oregon and California and is subordinate to the 7th Infantry Division.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
