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1999 Seattle WTO protests

Index 1999 Seattle WTO protests

1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle or the Battle in Seattle, were a series of protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, when members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999. [1]

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A People's History of the United States

A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn.

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Affinity group

An affinity group is a group formed around a shared interest or common goal, to which individuals formally or informally belong.

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Alter-globalization

Alter-globalization (also known as alternative globalization or alter-mundialization—from the French alter-mondialisation—and overlapping with the global justice movement) is the name of a social movement whose proponents support global cooperation and interaction, but oppose what they describe as the negative effects of economic globalization, considering that it often works to the detriment of, or does not adequately promote, human values such as environmental and climate protection, economic justice, labor protection, protection of indigenous cultures, peace and civil liberties.

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American Left

The American Left has consisted of a broad range of individuals and groups that have sought fundamental egalitarian changes in the economic, political, and cultural institutions of the United States.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Anarchism in New Zealand

The anti-capitalist, anti-state and anti-domination political philosophy of anarchism has played a small, but important and colourful role in New Zealand politics.

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Anarchism in the United States

Anarchism in the United States began in the mid-19th century and started to grow in influence as it entered the American labor movements, growing an anarcho-communist current as well as gaining notoriety for violent propaganda by the deed and campaigning for diverse social reforms in the early 20th century.

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André 3000

André Benjamin (born May 27, 1975), better known by his stage name André 3000 (formerly known as André), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor, best known for being part of hip hop duo Outkast alongside fellow rapper Big Boi.

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Anti-Capitalist Convergence

Anti-Capitalist Convergences (ACC) are organizations which sprang up in North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s as forms of coordinating activities by the growing social justice, anarchist, and environmentalist anti-capitalists.

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Anti-corporate activism

Anti-corporate activism holds that the influence of big business corporations is a detriment to the public good and to the democratic process.

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Anti-establishment

An anti-establishment view or belief is one which stands in opposition to the conventional social, political, and economic principles of a society.

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Anti-globalization protests in Prague

Anti-capitalist Protests in Prague took place during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank summit in September 2000 in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic.

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Antonia Juhasz

Antonia Juhasz (born 1970) is an American oil and energy analyst, author, journalist and activist.

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APEC China 2001

APEC China 2001 was a series of economic and political meetings between the 21 member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum held in the People's Republic of China during 2001.

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Arborist

An arborist, tree surgeon, or (less commonly) arboriculturist, is a professional in the practice of arboriculture, which is the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants in dendrology and horticulture.

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Audioslave

Audioslave was an American rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2001.

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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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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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Battle of Seattle

Battle of Seattle may refer to.

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Bayani (album)

Bayani is the second full-length album by alternative hip hop group Blue Scholars.

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Become the Media

Become the Media is the sixth spoken word album by Jello Biafra.

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Ben Manski

Ben Manski (born July 16, 1974) is an American sociologist, lawyer, and democracy advocate.

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Ben White (environmentalist)

Ben White (Benjamin Lewis White, Jr., Sept. 3, 1951 - July 30, 2005) was an arborist, environmentalist, animal rights and Native American rights activist.

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Bill Blaikie

William Alexander "Bill" Blaikie, (born June 19, 1951) is a retired Canadian politician.

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Binaural (album)

Binaural is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on May 16, 2000 through Epic Records.

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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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Blue–green alliance

A Blue–green alliance describes either an alliance or coalition between "blue" conservative parties and green parties, or "blue" labor organizations, such as labor unions, and environmental organizations such as green parties.

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Brad Will

Bradley Roland Will (June 14, 1970 – October 27, 2006) was an American activist, videographer and journalist.

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Carnival Against Capital

The Global Carnival Against Capital took place on Friday, 18 June 1999.

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Chris Crass

Chris Crass (born c. 1973) is an American social justice activist and writer.

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Christopher Fitzgerald (artist)

Christopher Fitzgerald is an American painter based in Austin, Texas.

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Come as You Are (Nirvana song)

"Come as You Are" is a song by American grunge band Nirvana, written by frontman Kurt Cobain and released as the second single from the band's second studio album Nevermind in March 1992.

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Contemporary anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, or harmful.

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Cultural depictions of turtles

Turtles are frequently depicted in popular culture as easygoing, patient, and wise creatures.

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Death of Carlo Giuliani

During an anti-globalization demonstration outside the July 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, protester Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by riot police among demonstrators who attacked their van, making his the first death during an anti-globalization demonstration since the movement's rise from the 1999 Seattle WTO protests.

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Deborah James

Deborah James is Director of International Programs at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and is on the Board of Directors of Global Exchange.

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DeeDee Halleck

DeeDee Halleck (born January 5, 1940) is a media activist, founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network.

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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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Diversity of tactics

Diversity of tactics is a phenomenon wherein a social movement makes periodic use of force for disruptive or defensive purposes, stepping beyond the limits of nonviolence, but also stopping short of total militarization.

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Doha Development Round

The Doha Development Round or Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is the trade-negotiation round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which commenced in November 2001 under then director-general Mike Moore.

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Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2000

Donald Trump's presidential campaign of 2000 for the nomination of the Reform Party began when real estate magnate Donald Trump of New York announced the creation of a presidential exploratory committee on the October 7, 1999 edition of Larry King Live.

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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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Electronic civil disobedience

Electronic civil disobedience (also known as ECD, cyber civil disobedience or cyber disobedience), can refer to any type of civil disobedience in which the participants use information technology to carry out their actions.

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Ellen Lesperance

Ellen Lesperance (born 1971) is an artist based in Portland, Oregon.

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EU Summit 2001

The 2001 meeting of the European Council was held in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, from 14–16 June.

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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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Fences and Windows

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate is a 2002 book by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein and editor Debra Ann Levy.

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Food Not Bombs

Food Not Bombs is a loose-knit group of independent collectives, sharing free vegan and vegetarian food with others.

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Free Speech TV

Free Speech TV (FSTV) is an American news and opinion network.

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Free speech zone

Free speech zones (also known as First Amendment zones, free speech cages, and protest zones) are areas set aside in public places for the purpose of political protesting.

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Future Primitive and Other Essays

Future Primitive and Other Essays is a collection of essays by anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan published by Autonomedia in 1994.

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Gil Kerlikowske

Richard Gil Kerlikowske (born November 23, 1949) is a former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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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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Global governance

Global governance or world governance is a movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors, aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region.

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Global justice movement

The global justice movement is a network of globalized social movements opposing what is often known as the “corporate globalization” and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Glossary of Wobbly terms

Wobbly lingo is a collection of technical language, jargon, and historic slang used by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies, for more than a century.

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Green liberalism

Green liberalism, or liberal environmentalism, is liberalism that includes green politics in its ideology.

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Green Mountain Anarchist Collective

The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (GMAC) was politically active between the years 2000 and 2009 and constituted the Vermont affiliate of Northeast Federation of Anarcho-Communists.

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Grievance (song)

"Grievance" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam.

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Hip hop music in the Pacific Northwest

Northwest hip hop is hip hop or rap music that originates from the Pacific Northwest of North America, encompassing major cities such as Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

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History of anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies often defined as self-governed voluntary institutions, but that several authors have defined as more specific institutions based on non-hierarchical free associations.

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History of left-wing politics in the United States

The history of left-wing politics in the United States dates back to Marxist immigrants in the mid-19th century.

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History of Seattle

This is the main article of a series that covers the history of Seattle, Washington, a city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America.

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History of Seattle since 1940

History of Seattle, Washington since 1940.

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History of socialism

The history of socialism has its origins in the 1789 French Revolution and the changes which it wrought, although it has precedents in earlier movements and ideas.

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History of the socialist movement in the United States

Socialism in the United States began with utopian communities in the early 19th century such as the Shakers, the activist visionary Josiah Warren and intentional communities inspired by Charles Fourier.

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History of Washington (state)

The history of Washington includes thousands of years of Native American history before Europeans and Americans arrived and began to establish territorial claims.

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Human microphone

A human microphone, also known as the people's microphone, is a means for delivering a speech to a large group of people, wherein persons gathered around the speaker repeat what the speaker says, thus "amplifying" the voice of the speaker without the need for amplification equipment.

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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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Index of philosophy articles (R–Z)

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Infamous (video game)

Infamous (stylized as inFAMOUS) is an action-adventure video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3.

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Infernal Noise Brigade

The Infernal Noise Brigade was a Seattle, Washington-based musical group, who originally formed to participate in the protests at the WTO Meeting of 1999.

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International Socialist Tendency

The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff (1917-2000), founder of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain (not to be confused with the unrelated Socialist Workers Party in the United States).

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Jello Biafra

Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), better known by his stage name Jello Biafra, is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys.

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Jeroen Mettes

Jeroen Mettes (Eindhoven, March 24, 1978 - The Hague, September 21, 2006) was a Dutch poet, essayist and blogger.

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Jessamyn West (librarian)

Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is an American librarian and blogger, best known as the creator of librarian.net and for her unconventional views on her profession.

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Joe Szwaja

Joseph Brian "Joe" Szwaja (born October 10, 1956) is an American public school teacher and political activist.

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John Zerzan

John Zerzan (born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author.

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Jonathan Rosenblum (activist)

Jonathan Rosenblum (born 1961) is a community and labor activist, writer and a union and community organizer based in Seattle, WA.

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Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University.

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Katya Komisaruk

Katya Komisaruk is an American civil rights lawyer and social justice activist.

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Kim Thayil

Kim A. Thayil (born September 4, 1960) is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden, which he cofounded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984.

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Law collective

A law collective is a non-hierarchical organization which provides legal aid to a community or communities in need.

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Left Turn

Left Turn was a bimonthly activist news magazine that focused on international social justice movements.

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Leo Gerard

Leo W. Gerard (born 1947) is a steelworker and a Canadian and American labour leader.

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Libertarian socialism

Libertarian socialism (or socialist libertarianism) is a group of anti-authoritarian political philosophies inside the socialist movement that rejects socialism as centralized state ownership and control of the economy.

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Libertarianism

Libertarianism (from libertas, meaning "freedom") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.

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Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution

Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution is an American non-governmental organization "rooted in the belief that the American Revolution is a living tradition whose greatest promise is democracy." Their purpose is to foster a broad-based democracy movement in the United States.

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List of Columbia University people in politics, military and law

This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University.

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List of Community characters

Community is an American television sitcom created by Dan Harmon.

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List of controversial video games

This is a list of video games considered controversial.

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List of demonstrations against corporate globalization

This article lists significant demonstrations by the anti-globalization movement against corporate globalization since 1999.

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List of films based on actual events

This is a list of feature films that are based on actual events.

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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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List of political slogans

The following is a list of notable 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st-century political slogans.

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List of protests in the United States

This is a list of protests in the United States.

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List of riots

This is a chronological list of known riots.

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List of words derived from toponyms

This is a list of English language words derived from toponyms, followed by the place name it derives from.

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Marion Irvine

Marion Irvine (born October 19, 1929)Kislevitz, p. 139.

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Matt Pizzolo

Matt Pizzolo (born on Long Island, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, comic book writer, playwright, and entrepreneur, best known for his work as creator of the transmedia franchise Godkiller, writer-director of the indie movie Threat, and director of music videos for Atari Teenage Riot.

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Maud Daudon

Maud Smith Daudon is the president and chief executive officer of the.

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Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin; September 10, 1952) is an American political activist, best known for co-founding Code Pink and, along with activist and author Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange.

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Media in Seattle

Media in Seattle includes long-established newspapers, television and radio stations, and an evolving panoply of smaller, local art, culture, neighborhood and political publications, filmmaking and, most recently, Internet media.

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Mediastrike

Mediastrike is an independent media activist organisation based in Adelaide, Australia.

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Mike Webb (radio host)

Mike Webb (September 4, 1955–April 14, 2007) was an American radio personality.

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Militarization of police

Militarization of police refers to the use of military equipment and tactics by law enforcement officers.

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Ministerial Conference

The Ministerial Conference is the top decision making body of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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Movement for a New Society

The Movement for a New Society (MNS) was a U.S.-based network of social activist collectives, committed to the principles of nonviolence, who played a key role in social movements of the 1970s and 80s.

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Multilateral Agreement on Investment

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) was a draft agreement negotiated between members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) between 1995 and 1998.

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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire is a book by post-marxist philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, published in 2004.

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N30

N30 may refer to.

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New antisemitism

New antisemitism is the concept that a new form of antisemitism has developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, emanating simultaneously from the far left, Islamism, and the far right, and that it tends to manifest itself as opposition to Zionism and the State of Israel.

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New media

New media are forms of media that are native to computers, computational and relying on computers for re-distribution.

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No Logo

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by the Canadian author Naomi Klein.

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.

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Norm Stamper

Norman Harvey Stamper (born 1944) is an American former chief of police and writer.

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November 30

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Off the Hook (radio program)

Off the Hook is a hacker-oriented weekly talk radio program, hosted by Emmanuel Goldstein, which focuses on the societal ramifications of information technology and the laws that regulate how people use them.

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Outkast

Outkast (stylized as OutKast) is an American hip hop duo formed in 1991 in East Point, Georgia, composed of Atlanta-based rappers André "André 3000" Benjamin (formerly known as Dré) and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton.

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Outline of anarchism

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to anarchism: Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, The following sources cite anarchism as a political philosophy: Slevin, Carl.

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Patrick Reinsborough

Patrick Reinsborough (born 1972) is an American writer, activist, social change theorist and practitioner.

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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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Pedro the Lion

Pedro the Lion is an indie rock band from Seattle, Washington.

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Pike Street (Seattle)

Pike Street is an east-west street in Downtown Seattle.

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Police riot

A police riot is a riot carried out by the police; a riot that the police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation; an event characterized by widespread police brutality; a mass police action that is violently undertaken against civilians for the purpose of political repression.

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Political positions of Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is an intellectual, political activist, and critic of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments.

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Politics of Harry Potter

There are many published theories about the politics of the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, which range from them containing criticism of racism to anti-government sentiments.

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Prefigurative politics

Prefigurative politics are the modes of organization and social relationships that strive to reflect the future society being sought by the group.

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Presidency of Bill Clinton

The presidency of Bill Clinton began at noon EST on January 20, 1993, when Bill Clinton was inaugurated as 42nd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2001.

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Propaganda of the deed

Propaganda of the deed (or propaganda by the deed, from the French propagande par le fait) is specific political action meant to be exemplary to others and serve as a catalyst for revolution.

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Protest

A protest (also called a remonstrance, remonstration or demonstration) is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situations.

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Puppetista

Puppetista is a word coined in 2000 by a group of puppeteers who make and use puppets in street theater and political demonstrations.

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Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Raj Patel

Raj Patel (born 1972) is a British Indian academic, journalist, activist and writer.

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Reclaim the Streets

Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is a collective with a shared ideal of community ownership of public spaces.

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Richard Lee (journalist)

Richard Lee is a self-declared "independent journalist" from Seattle, Washington.

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Richard McIver

Richard McIver (died March 9, 2013) was a member of the Seattle City Council.

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Robert Newman (comedian)

Robert "Rob" Newman (born 7 July 1964) is a British comedian, author and political activist.

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Robin Hahnel

Robin Eric Hahnel (born March 25, 1946) is an American economist and professor of economics at Portland State University.

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Sanjay Pugalia

Sanjay Pugalia is a veteran Indian political and business journalist with print and broadcast experience who is the former editor-in-chief of CNBC Awaaz in Mumbai, India.

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Sascha Altman DuBrul

Sascha Altman DuBrul, Sascha DuBrul or Sascha Scatter, (born 1974) is an American activist, writer, farmer and punk rock musician known as the bass player of the classic 90s ska-punk band Choking Victim.

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Sea Turtle Restoration Project

The Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP), founded in 1989, is a project of Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN), a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization with a goal of protecting endangered sea turtles from human-caused threats at nesting beaches and in the ocean.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Seattle Arctic drilling protests

Protests against Arctic drilling began in Seattle in 2015 in response to the news that the Port of Seattle authority made an agreement with Royal Dutch Shell to berth offshore drillships and semi-submersibles at the Port's Terminal 5 (T5) during the off-season of oil exploration in Alaskan waters of the Arctic.

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Seattle Mardi Gras riot

The Seattle Mardi Gras riot occurred on February 27, 2001, when disturbances broke out in the Pioneer Square neighborhood during Mardi Gras celebrations in Seattle, Washington.

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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 riots

Seattle riots may refer to.

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Sharyn Alfonsi

Sharyn Elizabeth Alfonsi (born June 3, 1972) is an American journalist and correspondent for 60 Minutes”'.

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Small-world network

A small-world network is a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but the neighbors of any given node are likely to be neighbors of each other and most nodes can be reached from every other node by a small number of hops or steps.

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South Park Blocks

The South Park Blocks form a city park in downtown Portland, Oregon.

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State of Emergency (video game)

State of Emergency is a beat 'em up video game developed by VIS Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and by Global Star Software for Microsoft Windows.

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Stephan Said

Stephan Othman Said (ستيفن سعيد) (May 30, 1968) aka Stephan Smith is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, writer, and global activist.

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Steven Staples

Steven Staples is a Canadian policy analyst.

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Susan George (political scientist)

Susan George (born June 29, 1934) is an American and French political and social scientist, activist and writer on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt.

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Tactical frivolity

Tactical frivolity is a form of public protest involving humour; often including peaceful non-compliance with authorities, carnival and whimsical antics.

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Teach-in

A teach-in is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs.

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Teen Dance Ordinance

The Teen Dance Ordinance was a controversial Seattle law which severely curtailed the ability of concert and club promoters to hold events for underaged patrons.

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The Hidden Connections

The Hidden Connections is a 2002 book by Fritjof Capra, in which the author proposes a holistic alternative to linear and reductionist world views.

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The No WTO Combo

The No WTO Combo was a one-shot punk rock band started by Krist Novoselic (former Nirvana bassist).

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Timeline of alternative rock

Alternative rock is generally understood to have begun in the late 1970s and early 1980s, primarily in the United Kingdom.

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Timeline of Seattle

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Timeline of the World Trade Organization

This is a timeline of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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Tom Hayden

Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden (December 11, 1939 – October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author and politician, who was director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles County, California.

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Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and alter-globalization author.

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WAAKE-UP!

WAAKE-UP! (World Awareness and Action Koalition of Equal United Progressives) was a student and community coalition at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) active from 1998 to 2001.

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Walden Bello

Walden Flores Bello (born November 11, 1945) is a Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social worker who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.

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Warcry (activist)

Warcry (known also as Priya Reddy) is an environmentalist and anarchist activist, filmmaker, writer and political organizer living in New York City.

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Washington A16, 2000

Washington A16, 2000 was a series of protests in Washington, D.C. against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that occurred in April 2000.

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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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Westlake Center

Westlake Center is a four-story shopping center and twenty-five story office tower in Downtown Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Whiteaker, Eugene, Oregon

Whiteaker is a neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon, United States.

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Women's March on Seattle

Women's March on Seattle, also referred to as the Womxn's March on Seattle, was the Seattle affiliate of the worldwide 2017 Women's March protest on January 21, 2017.

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Workers Solidarity Movement

The Workers Solidarity Movement is an anarchist-communist organisation in Ireland, identifying itself as broadly within the platformist tradition of Nestor Makhno.

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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 Social Forum

The World Social Forum (WSF, Fórum Social Mundial) is an annual meeting of civil society organizations, first held in Brazil, which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future through the championing of counter-hegemonic globalization.

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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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1984 Network Liberty Alliance

1984 Network Liberty Alliance is a loose group of software programmers, artists, social activists and militants, interested in computers and networks and considering them tools to empower and link the various actors of the social movement around the world.

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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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1999 in the United States

Events from the year 1999 in the United States.

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2000 Democratic National Convention

The 2000 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention for the Democratic Party.

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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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3rd Summit of the Americas

The 3rd Summit of the Americas was a summit held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, on April 20–22, 2001.

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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

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