The world was shocked to see more than 50,000 people converge on Seattle in November 1999 to protest the policies of an institution called the World Trade Organization. Pundits and ordinary citizens wondered, who are these people, what are they so angry about, and what do they want? In their analysis of a growing movement, Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark answer those questions by showing how the Seattle protests and subsequent mass demonstrations against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are the dramatic result of a full decade of growing agitation over corporate sponsored...
The world was shocked to see more than 50,000 people converge on Seattle in November 1999 to protest the policies of an institution called the World T...