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Part 1 of "SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE, 5 Days That Shook the WTO" (Nov 29, 1999) Ten years ago the WTO came to Seattle, the only American city with a statue of Lenin, and got run out of town. It was a moment legends are made of, but it was real life. Sixty thousand protesters, all in one way or another saying "shut it down," para-trouped in behind corporate lines, regrouping into alliances and affinity groups. They formed the legions of a political army, with all the division of labor any other army would have. It was "People, United," and they would NOT be defeated. They DID shut it down, physically and politically, internally, and perhaps eternally. The people stood up, not in some Obama music video, but in real life. Diversity of tactics and timing allowed the action to go on all week, and our side--people's army that it was--didn't abandon our casualties. In the end, the WTO, in disarray, asked the City of Seattle if they could please extend their stay by a day or so. The City said "No, leave as scheduled," and firmly ran them out of town. One good thing that came out of those times was the birth of the Seattle Indymedia Center (IMC). Before 1999 there was much less thought about going to the Internet to follow an event like a political uprising. The IMC cobbled together servers galore and a phat pipeline to the web. Even if Corporate America had wanted to cover the story of the opponents to the WTO, they couldn't have done so well. CBS or NBC might have one camera on the ground, and that most likely in with the dignitaries, but every gang and gaggle of activists likely included somebody who recorded it or reported it. Citizen journalism was alive, and even Corporate News turned to the IMC website for accurate reporting. An ad-hoc collaboration of some pre-existing video groups under the auspices of the IMC, gathered this footage and produced a daily video in a series called "Showdown in Seattle, 5 Days that Shook the WTO." Indymedia Presents #370, is Part 1 of that original series, produced Nov 29, 1999, a day of banner drops, debt drop, and raindrops, with a big show that night in the Seattle Center. Episode #371 of Indymedia Presents will be the second part in the 5-part series, and so on. We hope these original episodes can be useful in providing some deeper understanding of the issues, many of which have become mainstream, hidden in a sound-bite mention of the 10th anniversary of those days of action. In these 5 shows we can see a victory for the people and for people?s media. It was messy, but the WTO is still in shambles, while the IMC, with its collaborative model, went viral.

Part 1 of "SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE, 5 Days That Shook the WTO" (Nov 29, 1999) Ten years ago the WTO came to Seattle, the only American city with a statue of Lenin, and got run out of town. It was a moment legends are made of, but it was real life. Sixty thousand protesters, all in one way or another saying "shut it down," para-trouped in behind corporate lines, regrouping into alliances and affinity groups. They formed the legions of a political army, with all the division of labor any other army would have. It was "People, United," and they would NOT be defeated. They DID shut it down, physically and politically, internally, and perhaps eternally. The people stood up, not in some Obama music video, but in real life. Diversity of tactics and timing allowed the action to go on all week, and our side--people's army that it was--didn't abandon our casualties. In the end, the WTO, in disarray, asked the City of Seattle if they could please extend their stay by a day or so. The City said "No, leave as scheduled," and firmly ran them out of town. One good thing that came out of those times was the birth of the Seattle Indymedia Center (IMC). Before 1999 there was much less thought about going to the Internet to follow an event like a political uprising. The IMC cobbled together servers galore and a phat pipeline to the web. Even if Corporate America had wanted to cover the story of the opponents to the WTO, they couldn't have done so well. CBS or NBC might have one camera on the ground, and that most likely in with the dignitaries, but every gang and gaggle of activists likely included somebody who recorded it or reported it. Citizen journalism was alive, and even Corporate News turned to the IMC website for accurate reporting. An ad-hoc collaboration of some pre-existing video groups under the auspices of the IMC, gathered this footage and produced a daily video in a series called "Showdown in Seattle, 5 Days that Shook the WTO." Indymedia Presents #370, is Part 1 of that original series, produced Nov 29, 1999, a day of banner drops, debt drop, and raindrops, with a big show that night in the Seattle Center. Episode #371 of Indymedia Presents will be the second part in the 5-part series, and so on. We hope these original episodes can be useful in providing some deeper understanding of the issues, many of which have become mainstream, hidden in a sound-bite mention of the 10th anniversary of those days of action. In these 5 shows we can see a victory for the people and for people?s media. It was messy, but the WTO is still in shambles, while the IMC, with its collaborative model, went viral.

It was Wednesday, day 3 of WTO week in Seattle, and day 2 of the Ministerial meetings. Tuesday had been a disaster for the authorities on every level, as wave after wave of activists poured into the town like the Seattle rain that poured from the skies. The WTO had been shut down before it could even open and by Tuesday evening the National Guard had been called out, a large area in downtown Seattle had been designated a political free-fire zone, and public opinion had swung heavily against the WTO. Wednesday morning the world wondered whether things would settle down or what would happen next. One of the great strengths of the anti-WTO protests in Seattle in late 1999 was what later became known as "diversity of tactics." Different groups had taken different parts of the week to stage their activities, so that the movement always had fresh forces and a new focus to keep the pressure up. On Wednesday the Steelworkers held a permitted rally down on the waterfront. Other activists gathered in the Westlake area of downtown to challenge the legitimacy of the hastily declared "no-protest zone." Episode 3 of the 5-part "Showdown in Seattle" series is entitled "Occupied Seattle." It takes up the street battles of the day, but beyond that it brings to the screen a group little mentioned by most documentaries of the protests, the Filipino community. One of the contingents, numbering in the thousands, that marched in its own march into downtown Seattle on Tuesday was organized by a coalition of Filipino groups. They understood and were there to protest the effects of "neoliberalism" which is the term for what the WTO represents. Indymedia Presents #372 contains the third of five episodes of "SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE" produced at the Seattle Indymedia Center during the week of protests. IP #370 was episode 1, IP #371 contained episode 2. We will soon post the final 2 episodes as IP #373 & 374. For a good but short definition of "neoliberalism" see www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=376 Here's the short course: Economic liberalism is different from the political liberalism most Americans associate with the left. Conservative politicians who say they hate "liberals" -- meaning the political type -- have no real problem with economic liberalism, including neoliberalism. The main points of neo-liberalism include: 1. THE RULE OF THE MARKET. Liberating "free" enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers' rights. No more price controls. All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. 2. CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing government's role. Of course, they don't oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business. 3. DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminish profits, including protecting the environment and safety on the job. 4. PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. 5. ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF "THE PUBLIC GOOD" or "COMMUNITY" and replacing it with "individual responsibility." Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves -- then blaming them, if they fail, as "lazy."

It was Wednesday, day 3 of WTO week in Seattle, and day 2 of the Ministerial meetings. Tuesday had been a disaster for the authorities on every level, as wave after wave of activists poured into the town like the Seattle rain that poured from the skies. The WTO had been shut down before it could even open and by Tuesday evening the National Guard had been called out, a large area in downtown Seattle had been designated a political free-fire zone, and public opinion had swung heavily against the WTO. Wednesday morning the world wondered whether things would settle down or what would happen next. One of the great strengths of the anti-WTO protests in Seattle in late 1999 was what later became known as "diversity of tactics." Different groups had taken different parts of the week to stage their activities, so that the movement always had fresh forces and a new focus to keep the pressure up. On Wednesday the Steelworkers held a permitted rally down on the waterfront. Other activists gathered in the Westlake area of downtown to challenge the legitimacy of the hastily declared "no-protest zone." Episode 3 of the 5-part "Showdown in Seattle" series is entitled "Occupied Seattle." It takes up the street battles of the day, but beyond that it brings to the screen a group little mentioned by most documentaries of the protests, the Filipino community. One of the contingents, numbering in the thousands, that marched in its own march into downtown Seattle on Tuesday was organized by a coalition of Filipino groups. They understood and were there to protest the effects of "neoliberalism" which is the term for what the WTO represents. Indymedia Presents #372 contains the third of five episodes of "SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE" produced at the Seattle Indymedia Center during the week of protests. IP #370 was episode 1, IP #371 contained episode 2. We will soon post the final 2 episodes as IP #373 & 374. For a good but short definition of "neoliberalism" see www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=376 Here's the short course: Economic liberalism is different from the political liberalism most Americans associate with the left. Conservative politicians who say they hate "liberals" -- meaning the political type -- have no real problem with economic liberalism, including neoliberalism. The main points of neo-liberalism include: 1. THE RULE OF THE MARKET. Liberating "free" enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers' rights. No more price controls. All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. 2. CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing government's role. Of course, they don't oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business. 3. DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminish profits, including protecting the environment and safety on the job. 4. PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. 5. ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF "THE PUBLIC GOOD" or "COMMUNITY" and replacing it with "individual responsibility." Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves -- then blaming them, if they fail, as "lazy."

Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, Campus Antiwar Movement to End the Occupation (CAMEO), Rev. Jim Rigby, Spoken Word Poets, Community Activist, Castro's Beard, Joe Carr and the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), to name a few joined together to voice opposition the the war machine at the Healthcare Not Warfare Rally in Austin on Oct. 17, 2009.

PLAYLIST: 1) Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddamn (Interview) [excerpt, starts 0.12] 2) Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (Live) [starts 0.52] 3) Paul Hardcastle - 19 [excerpt, starts 3.32] 4) Leadbelly - The Bourgeois Blues [starts 6.08] 5) Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit [starts 9.26] 6) Bob Dylan - Hurricane [starts 12.11] 7) Fugazi - Five Corporations [starts 22.24] 8) The Smiths - Meat Is Murder [starts 24.50] 9) Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) [starts 30.37] 10) Public Enemy - Fight The Power [starts 36.07] 11) Bigg Jus - This Is Poor People's Day [starts 40.43] 12) Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty [starts 45.02] 13) Crass - Do They Owe Us A Living? [starts 48.25] 14) Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding [starts 49.49] 15) Autechre - Flutter [excerpt, starts 55.11]

About 130 workers were finally laid off on October 8, 2009 as the ongoing labor battle at the Stella D'Oro cookie factory came to an end in the Kingsbridge neighborhood of the northwestern Bronx. Former owner Brynwood Partners closed the factory while Lance, Inc., the new owners of the Stella D'Oro brand plan to move the machinery, but not the workers, to a non-union factory in Ashland, Ohio. About 75 former workers, community supporters and labor activists arranged a protest outside the factory on October 9 to condemn the decision.

Press release from: Health Care For America Now. Minnesota HCAN Coalition Says Health Insurance System Set Up To Generate Profits While Failing To Provide Health Care and Denying Claims Minnetonka, MN - UnitedHealth Group, the nation s largest private health insurer, was targeted Monday morning by over one-hundred members of the Minnesota contingent of the Health Care for America NOW (HCAN) coalition, including small business, labor, faith-based, and non-profit advocacy organizations. The group convened outside the doors of UnitedHealth Group s Minnetonka headquarters protesting the health insurer s practice of denying care and claims in order to generate record profits. Six arrests were made after protesters refused to stop blocking the doors to the headquarters. We re here today to stop UnitedHealth Group from continuing its business practice of denying health coverage and insurance claims as the primary means of turning a profit, said Julie Schnell, President of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and one of those arrested. Enough is enough. The status quo is failing most Americans. The time has come for Congress to ensure we have the health care we can afford and that means the choice of a public health insurance option. While health insurance CEO s took home $690 billion, health insurance premiums have been going up four times faster than wages. In addition to ongoing federal lobbying efforts, UnitedHealth Group has also been involved in work to prevent a public option from becoming law. In an August email, the insurer s advocacy group UnitedHealth s United for Health Reform, urged employees to attend town hall meetings and contact congressional members to elevate anti-reform messaging. And UnitedHealth Group, through its subsidiary Ingenix, is the sole owner and funder of the Lewin Group, which produces polling and research content widely cited by the GOP to stop health care reform. Diane Brennan, small business owner and grandmother, and one of those arrested, said she was involved in Monday s protest because Americans across this country are angry that many members of Congress are more interested in what insurance industry lobbyists have to say and the $1.4 million they spend every day to oppose reform -- than what working families need. Change may be threatening to private insurers because they have the most money to lose. But whose side is Congress on? All I know is that if the insurance companies win, we lose. Names of those arrested: - Anna Brelje (Political Director, Mpls Regional Labor Federation) - Pamela Twiss (Program and Organizing Director, TakeAction Minnesota) - Julie Schnell (President, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota) - Sean Anderson (Organizer with SEIU Local 26) - Diane Brennan (Small Business Owner, Grandmother and ISAIAH Leader) - Mary Rosenthal (SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and former UnitedHealth Group employee)

U Beogradu i danas protest protiv nasilja. Skup "Odgovor gra ana na nasilje" po eo je u 16 asova u Pionirskom parku. Distributed by Tubemogul.

As the protesters march, a small group of counter protesters try to dissuade them from continuing to march.

CBS affliate WHITV reports on Anonymous protesting Scientology's fraud and abuse at Indiana State Campus (September 26th 2009).

On World Refugee Day June 20th 2009 a group of concerned citizens (including Rev. Jim Rigby) from Texas gathered at the Private, For Profit Prison, T. Don Hutto "Family Residential Center" in Taylor, TX to voice their concerns about this corrupt prison industrial complex that is spreading. This vigil was organized by a coalition that includes Williamson County residents, the Border Ambassadors, Amnesty International, and the national chapter of LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens).Visit http://tdonhutto.blogspot.com/ to learn more.

"International Action Day "Freedom not Fear 2009 Stop Surveillance Mania! on 12 September 2009 A broad movement of campaigners and organizations is calling on everybody to join action against excessive surveillance by governments and businesses. On 12 September 2009, concerned people in many countries will take to the streets, the motto being "Freedom not fear 2009 Stop Surveillance Mania!". The Piraten Partei was massively represented with DJ Tanith on the decks throughout the parade and into the night...

Edited video from 4/25/07 protest by free Tibet activists on Mount Everest. The footage was captured from a live satellite streaming video. Three Tibetan independence activists, including one Tibetan-American, were detained by Chinese authorities Wednesday after demonstrating at Mount Everest's main base camp in Tibet, unfurling a banner reading "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008" in English, and "Free Tibet" written in Tibetan and Chinese. The protest was held on the eve of the International Olympic Committee's announcement of the final Beijing 2008 Olympic torch relay route and as a Chinese team of climbers prepared a trial ascent of the mountain with the Olympic torch. The activists are currently being detained by China, who is refusing to give them access to US consular services.