SHUTDOWN - The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War - trailer

In the winter of 2003, as the US was building up to attack Iraq, people around the world responded with a series of the largest protests in history.
In San Francisco, the response was a mass uprising orchestrated by Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) that shut down the financial district the morning after the war started.
But neither the uprising nor DASW outlasted the occupation.
Created by organizers from within DASW, SHUTDOWN goes behind the scenes for a look at the successes and pitfalls of mass organizing.

Directed by
Beca Lafore, Helia Rasti, Jonathan Stribling-Uss
45 mins.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• anti-war organizing
• peace protests
• mass organizing
• political organizing
• protest
• consensus
• anarchist organizing
• general strike
• uprising
• san francisco
• financial district
• civil unrest
• civil disobedience
• horizontalism
• Iraq
• Bush
• anti-bush
• DASW
• riots
• cops
• peace

[votestriker]

Great video 5*