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Solnit: Seattle WTO Shutdown ’99 to Occupy: Organizing to Win 12 Years Later
Znet Article, December, 08 2011
David Solnit
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As the occupy movement grows, wrestles with how to organize and looks forward, perhaps it’s of use to look back to what did and did not work in the space opened up 12 years ago
Solnit: Reflections From Bolivia
Znet Article, August, 03 2010
David Solnit
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In spring 2000, the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia rose up against the privatization of their water, forcing out the US based corporation, Bechtel, and Bolivia’s neo-liberal government to back down.
Solnit: The Battle for Reality
Znet Article, November, 30 2008
David Solnit
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My stomach clenched the first time I heard that actor Stuart Townsend was making a mainstream movie about the 1999 shutdown of the WTO ministerial meetings, Battle in Seattle.
Sitrin: G8 Dispatches: What Does Nike Have to do with Tokyo's Homeless?
Znet Article, June, 29 2008
Marina Sitrin
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Like many other foreigners, we arrived in Japan holding stereotypes of Japan as a prosperous country, not one where tens of thousands of people live in the streets. Surprised by the level of visible poverty and homelessness we saw, we realized our...
Solnit: Back To The Docks
Znet Article, May, 12 2003
David Solnit
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I'm going back to the Oakland docks to picket, to confront the corporations behind the war, to face the Oakland police who attacked us, and to redefine a new antiwar movement that can topple the empire and build a better world. At sunrise Ap...
