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Battle in Seattle to Occupy Wall Street

Historical Antecedents

Influences

The Battle in Seattle sparked a debate about the advancing global trade industry and how it affected the average person. A growing number of people feel the WTO and IMF do not benefit the average person, but instead only widen the already fat pockets of the global elite.

  • Key influences
  • Self-identified “leaderless resistance movement”
  • Sparked interest with Tahrir Square uprising and demonstrations in Spain
  • Canadian magazine Adbusters called for a protest

Inspirations

  • Global protests in Tunisia
  • “Social Justice Summer” in Israel
  • Indignados Movement in Spain
  • Anti-austerity in Greece
  • WTO protests in Seattle
  • Poor Peoples Campaign

Port cities foster Globalization

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Israel_Housing_Protests_Tel_Aviv_August_6_2011b.jpg

Celebrities

Occupy Wall Street was also defending and empowering the average person; the 99%. These protests were led by dissatisfied youth who wanted to fight for social and economic equality in the NY Financial district.

dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2013/01/25/with-protests-egyptians-mark-uprising-anniversary.html

Alec Baldwin: "Stiffer penalties for white collar crime!"

House Dem. Leader

Nancy Pelosi support

Trends in activity

1999 Seattle WTO Protests

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-01-01%202016-09-27&q=%2Fm%2F01tc_x

Media

  • 13 million tweets with related hashtags
  • Source of information: Facebook(64%) and Twitter (23%)
  • Media making: Facebook (74%)
  • Majority used social media to circulate information
  • Traditional
  • Investigations and coverage coming from New York media sources (NYTimes & New Yorker)
  • Most newspapers criticizing the movement regarding arrests made and lack of direction
  • TV discussion on Jon Stewart

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Occupy Wall Street

Battle in Seattle

Ties to Other Movements

Active: protests on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1

  • Started September 17, 2011
  • Led by mostly younger people boasting "We are the 99%"
  • Mainly protest economic inequality
  • Mass media coverage AFTER police brutality on September 24
  • Anonymous support brought more attention

www.peaceproject.com/stickers/fullsize/anti-globalization

http://content.lib.washington.edu/wtoweb

Historical Antecedents

  • 1997 protest against APEC Canada
  • 1998 protest against Multilateral Agreement on Investment

Other Movements

  • Start of the "anti-globalization" movement
  • Occupy Wall Street / Occupy

Ties to Other Movements

Key Moments:

  • Unsuccessful 1998 protest against Multilateral Agreement on Investment
  • Nov. 16, 1999- Bill Clinton's Executive Oder 13141
  • Jan. 30, 2007- jury found that the 4th Amendment was violated in arrests during the protests

  • After being kicked out of Zuccotti Park, protesters focused on occupying other financial districts and institutions
  • Years following have also occupied foreclosed homes, college and university campuses, and natural disasters
  • Occupy Sandy
  • Occupy SEC
  • Occu-evolve
  • May Day 2012
  • Strike debt
  • Other global protests

Websites

Conclusion

Media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests

http://web.mit.edu/schock/www/docs/pubs/mic-check-2012-costanza-chock.pdf

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/occupy-wall-street-gets-celebrity-support/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2044723,00.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Israeli_social_justice_protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-austerity_movement_in_Spain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-austerity_movement_in_Greece

Compare: Occupy Wall Street to 1999 Seattle WTO Protests

Trends

  • Modern social media was not present in 1999.
  • Key Figures
  • Global Exchange
  • AFL-CIO
  • Jubilee 2000
  • Direct Action Network
  • Newspapers
  • NY Times
  • Problems- controlled by large corporations

Occupy Wall Street

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

File:WTO_protests_in_Seattle_

November_30_1999.jpg

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all,all&geo=,&q=%2Fm%2F0h63jfq,%2Fm%2F01tc_x

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2009-08-27%202016-09-27&q=%2Fm%2F0h63jfq

Battle in Seattle to Occupy Wall Street

Presented by: Krista Hayakawa and Timothy Berggren

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