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
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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.
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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
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