[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: N30

[Lance Larkin]

Wow, two features on the same topic within a few
minutes. I like both features and think that we should
take the time to combine them, as they both take a
different spin on the same thing. 

I will take some time after eating to take a look at
both to compare. Thanks Jonathan.

Lance

--- jonathan lawson <jonathan at indymedia.org> wrote:
> subtitle: N30: PEOPLE'S HOLIDAY, DAY OF ACTION
> title: Day of Action: Resisting Neoliberalism at
> Home
> 
> Novemeber 30, 1999 represented a triumphal moment
> for worldwide civil 
> resistance against a <a 
>
href="http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=376">global
> 
> economic system</a> which gives private corporations
> more power than 
> governments and eschews all value systems which
> could slow the 
> concentration of wealth by a small class of
> corporate masters. In the 
> morning hours of N30, 1999, tens of thousands of
> activists from across the 
> globe converged in the streets to shut down meetings
> of the World Trade 
> Organization, the undemocratic, international
> governing forum of neoliberal 
> globalization. The conflict became infamous around
> the world, partially 
> because of the disproportionately violent police
> response to the largely 
> peaceful demonstrations.
> 
> <p>In years since, N30 has been remembered in the
> streets of Seattle with 
> marches, rallies and celebrations of resistance.
> This year, community 
> activists have called for a <a
> href="http://www.riseup.net/n30"><b>Day of 
> Action</b></a>. One group of N30 organizers charge
> that previous years' 
> commemorations have been "self congratulatory, self
> referential, largely 
> ineffective day of 'protest,'" in which activist
> messages have devolved 
> into simplistic faceoffs with police, resulting in
> needless police violence 
> and arrests. These organizers hope to focus on
> issues demonstrating the 
> negative local effects of the global neoliberal
> economic system, reserving 
> the hotspot of Westlake Park for a day-long Resource
> Share and designated 
> "safe space." At the same time, the group's >a 
>
href="http://www.riseup.net/n30/n30.html">website</a>
> describes local 
> police as "the enemy" and encourages affinity groups
> to develop <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20129">independent
> 
> plans</a> for disruptions around the city. Weekend
> events are listed <a 
>
href="http://www.brizone.com/buynothing/events.html">here</a>.
> Highlights:<br>
> 
> <b>Friday</b> 6:30 pm, Grand Lodge Hall,, 117 15th
> Ave. S: potluck dinner 
> to commemorate the N30 BATTLE OF SEATTLE through
> INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY.
> <b>Saturday</b> Noon, Westlake Park: WTO ANNIVERSARY
> & DO SOMETHING! <a 
>
href="http://www.riseup.net/n30/index1.html">Resource
> Share</a> (march at 
> 1pm) <br>
> 1 pm, 4th And Jackson St: N30 RADICAL STREET
> FESTIVAL<br>
> 4-5 pm, Westlake Park: 911 Peace Coalition PEACE
> VIGIL
> 6-9 pm, SCCC: WTO Anniversary Candlelight Vigil
> 7:30, IMC: Screening of <a 
>
href="http://www.geocities.com/urbanwarrior_northwest/film.html">Urban
> 
> Warrior</a>
> 
> Candlelight vigil at SCCC, 6-9pm n30
>
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19908
> 
> <p><a href="http://www.riseup.net/n30">N30 2002 Day
> of Action</a> | <a 
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/n30/">Peoples
> Holiday events, N30 
> 2001</a> | <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=1592">Report
> 
> from the street, N30 2000</a> |
> <a href="http://www.permitthis.org/">Permit This!
> Lawsuit info</a>  | 
> IMC/Bruderhof Radio: <a 
>
href="http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11730">Looking
> Back 
> at N30 1999</a> | Blind Spot WTO coverage (pdf):
> <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/blindspot1.pdf">1</a>
> <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/blindspot2.pdf">2</a>
> <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/blindspot2.pdf">3</a>
> <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/blindspot2.pdf">4</a>
> <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/blindspot2.pdf">5</a>
> <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/blindspot_wrap-up.pdf">5</a>
> 
> 
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