Subject: [BRC-NEWS] The Best of the “Battle in Seattle”
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:57:21 -0500
From: Art McGee <amcgee@blackradicalcongress.org>
To: brc-news@lists.tao.ca

Hi Folks,

Wow! I can’t even remember how much email I received in the last week regarding the WTO and “Globalization.” If I said 1,000 messages that would be a serious understatement.

In order to relieve you of the burden of being flooded with so much information, which would have been counterproductive, I instead decided to send a compilation of the most important sites containing news and information about the WTO and the events in Seattle last week, which you can browse at your leisure.

If most of what you know about the protests and demonstrations was what you read/heard/saw in the mainstream media, you’re in for a shock:

Emperors New Clothes http://www.emperors-clothes.com

(In particular, take a look at an article called “Collateral Damage in Seattle” at http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/collater.htm )

Independent Media Center http://www.indymedia.org

(They were ground zero for alternative media coverage of the WTO events)

Public Citizen/Global Trade Watch http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/gatthome.html http://www.seattle99.org

(Take a look at “A Citizen’s Guide to the WTO” at address http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/wto-book.pdf )

ZNet/Z Magazine http://zena.secureforum.com/wto-watch/index.cfm http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Globalism/GlobalEcon.htm

(Lots of original commentaries from many famous Leftists)

Corporate Watch http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/wto/

(Always my favorite site on just about any subject they tackle)

AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/wto.html

(A good collection of articles summarizing many of the issues)

Left Business Observer http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Seattle.html

(On the ground reports and photos from Doug Henwood)

Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org

(Pacifica Radio archived feed that you can listen to with RealPlayer)

National Lawyers Guild http://www.nlg.org/wto/

(They’re helping with the legal issue of getting protestors out of jail)

rTMark http://www.gatt.org

(Spoof of the official WTO/GATT site. The only difference is the truth!)

OneWorld http://www.oneworld.org/campaigns/wto/

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy http://www.wtowatch.org

Global Exchange http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/rulemakers/wto.html

Food First http://www.foodfirst.org/progs/global/trade/wto99.html

The Preamble Center http://www.preamble.org/wto/wto.htm

Postcards from Seattle http://www.brasscheck.com/seattle/

Ruckus Society/Globalize This! http://www.globalizethis.org http://www.ruckus.org

Mid-Atlantic Infoshop http://www.infoshop.org/no2wto.html

People for Fair Trade http://www.peopleforfairtrade.org

World Trade Observer http://www.worldtradeobserver.org

Art & Revolution/Direct Action Network http://www.agitprop.org/artandrevolution/wto/

Third World Network http://www.twnside.org.sg/souths/twn/trade.htm

Direct Action Media Network http://damn.tao.ca/wtopage/wto.htm

Grist Magazine http://www.gristmagazine.com

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