Our World Is Not for Sale: 25 Years of Fighting the WTO

By David Solnit

In an in-depth interview, OWINFS coordinator Debora James reflects on how the fight for trade justice has evolved from the streets of Seattle to today.

"Predictions of increased jobs and prosperity under the WTO system have failed abysmally. Inequalities have soared, leaving hundreds of millions impoverished while billionaires metastasise like cancer,"—Deborah James in Al Jazeera, 5 years ago."

25 WTO Protest Facts @ 25

25 Fun or Otherwise Lesser-Known Facts to Mark the 25th Anniversary of the WTO Protests in Seattle

By gabriel sayegh

1. The #N30History WTO Shutdown History Project tells the story. A small group of organizers who had played key leadership roles in Seattle worked together to build and launch the #N30History Shutdown WTO Organizers’ History website. All of them had been involved in creating and developing the Direct Action Network (DAN), which issued the call to shut down the WTO meeting through nonviolent civil disobedience and worked to achieve it. The site is an invaluable archive of materials related to the events in Seattle, an example of organizers telling our own history, and the best place to learn about what happened and how.

2. The origins of Seattle can be traced to the mid-1980s in the Global South. Especially in Africa and Latin America, people mobilized, as...