Free Download One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests (Audiobook)
English | June 18, 2024 | ASIN: B0CLX13XBK | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 9m | 357 MB
Author: DW Gibson | Narrators: Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Jason Culp, Soneela Nankani, Leon Nixon, Ramón de Ocampo, Fred Sanders, Jackie Sanders
The definitive history of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests, featuring over 100 original interviews and timed to the event’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
One week in late 1999, more than 50,000 people converged on Seattle. Their goal: to shut down the World Trade Organization conference and send a message that working-class people would not quietly accept the runaway economic globalization that threatened their livelihoods. Though their mission succeeded, it was not without blowback. Violent confrontations between police and protestors resulted in hundreds of arrests and millions of dollars in property damage. But the images of tear gas and smashed windows that flashed across TVs and newspapers were not an accurate representation of what actually happened that week.