How We Created A Festival Of Resistance at the 1999 Battle of Seattle
I’m writing these notes in early November as fires rage across California. I’ve just returned from supporting family of…
The Indypendent
David Solnit
Direct Action: Standing Rock Water Protectors Establish New Frontline Encampment
Following a sunrise ceremony at the main Standing Rock encampment on Sunday, a mass march, car caravan and troupe…
After the Attacks: A Climate Organizer’s Notes from Paris
I'm in Paris for the month helping with arts and action preparations for Dec 12 and other climate justice…
After the Attacks: A Climate Organizer’s Notes from Paris
I'm in Paris for the month helping with arts and action preparations for Dec 12 and other climate justice…
Looking Back on the Battle of Seattle 15 Years Later
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY: On another rainy November 30 morning in Seattle we gathered in the pre-dawn rain on…
Seattle WTO Shutdown ’99 to Occupy: Organizing to Win 12 Years Later
It’s 3 a.m. on Nov. 30 in San Francisco. Riot cops just raided Occupy Philly and Occupy Los Angeles…
Eleven Years After the WTO Uprising: Seattle, Detroit, Cancun and the Immokalee Workers
Eleven years ago, beginning on November 30, 1999, a public uprising shut down the World Trade Organization and occupied…
Barack Obama’s election seems to have dispelled some of the despair that grew up in the repressive war-making aftermath…
By David Solnit The world is waiting for Americans to show visible resistance and dispel the illusion from the…