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Title: Five Days That Shook the World: The Battle for Seattle and Beyond by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Allan Sekula, Jeffrey St Clair ISBN: 1-85984-779-X Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Oooh That Smell
Comment: The rebellion against global trade policies that erupted on the streets of Seattle was a warning shot heard round the world: transnational corporations and their political servants will be confronted by the people they seek to exploit. Other demostrations followed: in Quebec, Washington, Milan, Davos, and Cancun. The corporadoes have no place left to hide, no place left to hold their secret covens without hearing the voices of the growing global opposition. But there are no illusions here. This new global movement is taking root more firmly in Europe and the developing world than in the US, where its growth is stunted and suppressed by a reflexive loyalty to the Democratic Party, despite its descent into the darkness of neoliberalism. St. Clair's gripping diary of that week describes with chilling prescience the divisions in the movement between the traditional liberals and the new radicals, fed up with being spoonfed morsels by Democratic Party politicians whose real allegiance is to the same network of corporate fat cats who dreamed up the WTO in the first place. These fissures played out first in the 2000 election, when the labor unions and mainstream greens that chanted slogans of defiance in Seattle all came back into the plantation and supported the campaign of Al Gore, a chief architect of NAFTA and the WTO. Now, scared to death by the spectre of another Bush term, the divisions will become even more stark, the rationalizations of surrender more hysterical. This book is must reading for progressives, both for the history it describes and the future it predicts.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eye of the Storm
Comment: A wonderful blend of first-hand, eye-witness reporting and even-handed analysis. Jeremy St. Clair's 40 page "Seatle Diary" alone makes the book worthy of reading. Perhaps the best piece of journalism to emerge from the growing body of Seatle stories. Two clips involving WTO delegates (one pounching a black lady in the face, another waving his revolver at a protestor baracade) utterly blew me away. And in the spirit of the lively and diverse protesters, the book is also funny at times, as when a South Central LA youth named Thomas replies to St. Clair's question, "Why are you here?" He answers: "I like turtles and I hate that ... Bill Gates." To which Sinclair replies, "Good enough for me." You won't be able to put the book down. It has a very genuine, honest and human feel. Along the way, you will run into Brower, the famous French cheese-maker Jose Bove, some interesting college professors, Sierra Club's Carl Pope, many of the so-called "anarchists" which every major media venue categorized all protestors as, and many other important people who turned out for the "Battle in Seatle." The book will not only give you a comprehensive understanding of the issues surrounding the protests and the subsequent media storm, it will also make you feel like you were there. St. Clair's writing is that good.
Rating: 5
Summary: Prescient book, given the Retaliatory Attack on America
Comment: America had never seen anything like the mass movement that took over Seattle to confront the World Trade Organization in the fall of 2001: environmentalists, religious & human rights groups, farmers, civil rights organizations, ordinary people. They came with a message of peaceful protest. They were met with shock troops, billy clubs, rubber bullets and tear gas. 5 Days that Shook the World takes you onto the streets of Seattle and the protests in Washington, Philly and Los Angeles that followed during that remarkable year. But this book isn't about illusions or myths, but about the hard truths. St. Clair and Cockburn were eerily prescient in their prediction that the vaunted coalition of labor and greens would be difficult to hold together as the demands of political reality set in and as the corporate press and the government moved to counter and undermine the movement(s). Big labor and the big greens soon abandoned the cause by endorsing the campaign of pseudo-Democrat, Al Gore, the chief broker of NAFTA and the WTO treaties. Other leaders turned away from the protests following the bloody reprisals of the police in
Quebec and Genoa. But that doesn't mean the anti-globalization movement is dead. Cockburn and St. Clair point out the fakers, but they also show you where the true heart of the movement for global social and environmental justice beats. This book is a a much needed guide to what just may be the most important struggle of our times...
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Title: The Battle in Seattle: The Story Behind and Beyond the Wto Demonstrations by Janet Thomas ISBN: 1555911080 Publisher: Fulcrum Pub Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization by Benjamin Shepard, Ronald Hayduk ISBN: 1859843565 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Globalize This! The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule by Kevin Danaher, Roger Burbach ISBN: 1567511961 Publisher: Community Archives Publications Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler by Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland, Tom Frank ISBN: 0393316734 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization by Amory Starr ISBN: 1856497658 Publisher: Zed Books Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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