20th anniversary of Indymedia / Seattle 1999 WTO protests

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
+ ShutdownWTO20 site +
+ Indymedia history and vision +
+ Films documenting Seattle 1999 +


- This document version = 8:25pm PST November 29 -

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Shutdown WTO 20 - A website documenting Seattle 1999
https://www.shutdownwto20.org/

A small group of co-founders and core organizers of the Direct Action Network, the organization that called for the shutdown of the WTO conference twenty years ago, put the #ShutdownWTO20 site together to share their reflections from a critical moment in movement history: with historical narratives from people who organized locally and regionally; articles and resources developed over the last 20 years; and new analysis to support collective efforts to look forward to the next 20 years and plan for our futures.

((( Indymedia is included very briefly )))


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INDYMEDIA - HISTORY, PURPOSE, ANALYSIS, POSSIBILITY

Interview with Jeff Perlman, Director of the Independent Media Center in Seattle
by Miguel Bocanegra, October 2000 (20-page PDF)
https://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/interviews/Perlstein.pdf
https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/05/06/perlstein.pdf

"On the origin and context of the indymedia network"
Interview with rabble (Indymedia volunteer, reporter, activist) May 2006
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/25/18253281.php
+ With link to summary of Indymedia & Indybay histories:
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/03/11/17262451.php

Holding Out for Un-alienated Communication
"What could a global independent media/tech network be in the era of corporate social media?"
by Indymedia Montreal 2016 Convergence Working Group
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/holding-out-for-un-alienated-communication
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/09/10/18802794.php

Another Network is Possible
"Indymedia defined an early era of networked protest — and showed us another way the web could work."
by April Glaser, August 2019
https://logicmag.io/bodies/another-network-is-possible/

“Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media”: Reflections on 20 Years of Indymedia, a Radical Media Movement
by Democracy Now with guests Jill Friedberg, Rick Rowley, Tish Stringer, Renée Feltz. 25-min, November 2019
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/27/indymedia_independent_media_seattle_wto_1999


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VIDEO - FILMS

Three full length films of Seattle'99, a five-part series, and a PSA

Breaking The Spell
https://vimeo.com/18805691
https://youtu.be/D2MxtwAmeOY
https://archive.org/details/BreakingTheSpell1999

This is What Democracy Looks Like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-LfN3V3id8
https://archive.org/details/ThisIsWhatDemocracyLooksLike

Showdown in Seattle (1-hour version of five-part series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Xltn0jW_0

Showdown in Seattle: 5-part series (20-28min each)
p1 - Seattle Prelude https://youtu.be/mFLOvz9zPW8
https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_a_showdown_in_seattle
p2 - People Unite, Police Riot https://youtu.be/EEfk1ZtrtGc
https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_b_showdown_in_seattle
p3 - Occupied Seattle https://youtu.be/dKXaDZ4Dy_I
https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_c_d_showdown_in_seattle
p4 - Unwilling Captives https://youtu.be/LWja20rOM00
https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_d_showdown_in_seattle
p5 - What Democracy Looks Like https://youtu.be/GYyCDE6dbDU
https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_e_showdown_in_seattle

Shut Em Down / Seattle WTO 1990
(Short 9-min PSA for 2000 World Bank / IMF protests)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq9YFfLof4w

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