This Is What Democracy Looks Like (Seattle 1999 WTO)

Documentary following the events of the 1999 WTO Protests in Seattle.

From the website:

This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a co-production of the IMC and Big Noise Films, weaves the footage of over 100 videographers into a gripping document of what really happened on Seattle's streets. The film cuts through the confusion and tear gas to paint an intimate, passionate portrait of a week that changed the world.With narration by SUSAN SARANDON and SPEARHEAD's MICHAEL FRANTI, and with a driving soundtrack including RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, DJ SHADOW, DJ MUSAKA, and COMPANY OF PROPHETS, This Is What Democracy Looks Like is the first documentary to capture the raw energy of the WTO protests, while clarifying their global and historic significance.

The Independent Media Center provided a production infrastructure for over 450 media activists during the WTO protests in November 1999. With autonomous, volunteer-run media centers operating in four continents, ten countries and twenty-one cities, the IMC represents a new and powerful emerging model for independent media.

"The IMC isn't waiting for the old guard media to tell the true story. . . the IMC is simply doing the job itself, reporting directly form the front lines." Naomi Klein, author of NO LOGO

As always support the makers of this film by buying the DVD.
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[Karim Azizi]

Technically, we the tax-paying people are financing their paychecks. And the paychecks of their bosses come from our pockets as well. Isn't democracy a big paradox?

[Ji hye Kim]

"Those who exploit natural resources, exploit human resources... "what a powerful statement.

[FallacyProduction]

LIGHTS OUT! GUERRILLA RADIO!

[hugadarn]

You lost me in 5 seconds. Parrots.

[Sekou Kaba]

only 8,000 views??

[Grieve Graves]

"Once unions were against were against the law & slavery was fine

Women were denied the vote & children worked the mine

The more you study history the less you can deny it

A rotten law stays on the books till folks with guts defy it"

Fuckin awesome lyric

[Grieve Graves]

35:42

[ZombifiedStorm]

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[ZombifiedStorm]

This is one of the many films I've watched this term, the response of authoritarian figures disgusts me and angers me

[kashi294]

Watching the police in this video makes me feel sick to my stomach