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Peasants and Farmers, Global Protests, and the WTO Peasants and Farmers, Global Protests, and the WTO
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The “First Shot” The “First Shot”
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Peasants and Farmers in Seattle Peasants and Farmers in Seattle
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The International People’s Assembly The International People’s Assembly
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Social Energy after Seattle Social Energy after Seattle
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2 Peasant-Farmer Movements, Third World Peoples, and the Seattle Protests against the World Trade Organization, 1999
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Published:February 2024
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This chapter details the events of November 30, 1999 (N30) and the participation of peasants and farmers in the protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO). Many N30 participants, and peasants and farmers in particular, came to Seattle not only to march in the streets but to network and attend political education forums. These less visible and dramatic aspects of the Seattle events deserve attention, if only because they contributed to building an ongoing movement and to convincing developing-country WTO delegates to resist the unfettered free-trade agenda of the more powerful developed-country governments. Street heat, like the less dramatic forums and assemblies, also played a role in the collapse of the WTO negotiating round. Most fundamentally, however, the significance of N30 has less to do with the proportion of demonstrators who came from the Global South (or of those “of color”) than with the impact that the Seattle events had on those who did come, on developing-country WTO delegates, and on other sympathizers who stayed home but nonetheless followed the situation closely.
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