Another World is Possible! WTO+20
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2019-12-05

Today in Seattle, and around the world, social movements are taking to the streets, striking, locking down, and engaging in multiple forms of direct action. These tactics build collective power to transform the intersecting crises of our times into opportunities for equity, healing, and sustainability.

In 1919 over 65,000 workers with held their labor during the Seattle General Strike; in 1999 over 50,000 people took to the streets of Seattle, and shut down the World Trade Organization’s conference.

In 2019 we gather to honor this history, and the power of non-violent direct action, through story-telling, trainings, and movement-building workshops, to make another world possible.  
Activists who were part of the mobilization shared stories and lessons learned from the people’s movement which made history by successfully preventing the WTO - one of capitalism’s most powerful global institutions - from further consolidating its power.

In this video of the morning opening dialogue we hear from leaders of today’s movements for justice, from Washington farmworkers to global alliances.

In order of appearance:

Edward Wolcher: Curator of Lectures, Town Hall Seattle

Ken Workman: The great-great-great-great grandson of Chief Seattle; Duwamish Tribal Council Member 3:40

Music by Correo Aereo 14:45

Heather Day: Director of Community Alliance for Social Justice and
Kristen Beifus: Community Organizer at UFCW local 21 20:22

Nancy Haque: Labor/Direct Action Network organizer in ’99, Executive Director of Basic Rights Oregon 35:00

Vandana Shiva: Founder of Navdanya, Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and anti-globalization author. Author of more than twenty books 45:55

Deborah James: WTO activist in '99, Coordinator of Our World Is Not For Sale  network, Director of International Programs, Center for Economic and Policy Research 50:26

Lisa Fithian: Author of Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance 1:04:37

Edgar Franks: Familias Unidas por la Justicia 1:10:10

Paul Cheoketen Wagner: Founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea 1:18:45

Presented by, Community Alliance for Global Justice, UFCW 21 & Town Hall Seattle. 

Co-Sponsors:
350Seattle, American Federation of Teachers, Clean Greens Farm & Market, Earth Care not Warfare, Economics for Everyone, Faith Action Network, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, Greenpeace USA, Health Alliance International, LELO, Mazaska Talks, National Family Farm Coalition, Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace (OMJP), PSARA, Puget Sound Sage, Real Change News, Red May, Red Noses, Seattle Education Association, SEIU 925, Sunrise Movement Seattle, Sustainable Ballard, Tools for Change, UAW 4121, US Women and Cuba Collaboration, WA Fair Trade Coalition, WA State Labor Council.

Recorded 11/30/19

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