World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest collection WTO Seattle collection, 1993-2011

Overview of the Collection

Title
World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest collectionWTO Seattle collection
Dates
1993-2011 (inclusive)
Quantity
46.85 cubic feet (33 boxes)
27 videocassettes and 1 CD Rom disk
6 oversize objects
3 tubes
2 packages
1 vertical file
Collection Number
5177
Summary
Protest materials from the 1999 WTO Ministerial Conference held in Seattle
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users, but access to portions of the collection is restricted. Contact repository for details.

Request at UW

Languages
English

Historical BackgroundReturn to Top

The WTO History Project and its associated archives are largely a response to the momentous protests that took place between November 29 and December 3, 1999 in Seattle during the World Trade Organization Ministerial meetings. The project also documents the mobilization that preceded the Ministerial. The protests were mounted by a wide array of groups and individuals, especially organized labor, environmentalists, and pro-democracy activists concerned that the WTO encouraged trade practices harmful to workers and the environment and operated in a manner which they considered largely undemocratic.

The WTO History Project was a partnership based at the University of Washington that included the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, and the University Libraries. The groups collaborated to ensure that future researchers of the WTO protests would have access to documentary evidence relating to the range of people involved in the protests, the many strategies and issues they brought to the streets and the meeting rooms, and the coalitions they formed.

During the nearly nine month mobilization in 1999, local and national non-governmental groups representing a variety of interests determined how to publicize the threat posed by the WTO and how to frame their messages to attract the attention of the public, the media and the WTO itself. The lengthy and often contentious mobilization process led to a six-week period immediately preceding the protests during which activists prepared themselves and the public with public teach-ins, training, and debates.

On November 30, 1999, first day of the ministerial meetings, thousands of largely peaceful protestors blocked delegates’ entrance to the opening plenary session. According to press reports, Seattle police in riot gear responded by releasing volleys of tear gas and pepper spray at 10:00 am and continued to do so throughout the day. The police eased up when the 20,000-member labor march reached the downtown core from the Seattle Center, where a large rally had been held. WTO officials cancelled the opening ceremonies. At a time difficult to verify after the fact, Mayor Paul Schell declared a civil emergency, ordering streets to be cleared by 7:00 pm and imposing a curfew on a large area of downtown, from Yesler Way to Denny Way and from Interstate 5 to Elliott Bay. Word of the curfew reached people on the streets at about 4:00 pm. Some dispersed, but others remained and were herded out of downtown by police firing tear gas and pepper spray. At approximately 10:00 pm the State Patrol reinforced the police. Scattered vandalism and looting of several downtown businesses had occurred during the day.

Early the following day, Wednesday, December 1, Seattle police established a ‘demonstration-free zone’ around the WTO meeting site at the Seattle Convention and Trade Center. They severely restricted access to the area, but protests continued. The ministerial meeting was shut down for five hours that day. Governor Gary Locke sent additional State Patrol troopers and two National Guard units to relieve and assist the Seattle police. Clashes between protesters and police spilled over in the evening to Capitol Hill, east of downtown. By then the focus had shifted somewhat, away from the WTO and towards the police response to the protests. Several hundred protesters were arrested, and other protesters demonstrated outside the King County Jail.

The following day the Mayor’s Office reduced the size of what it called a ‘limited curfew zone’ to the area bounded by Fourth Avenue, Pine Street, Boren Avenue, Seneca Street, and Interstate 5. Some protests were staged on Friday, especially inside the convention center. Protestors demonstrated outside the King County jail again on Friday evening. Eventually charges were dropped against most of the over 400 people arrested.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The WTO Seattle Collection is composed of one large and several smaller accessions. Accession 5177-003, the largest, primarily covers the period from mid-1999 to early 2000. Included are publicity materials, other ephemeral material distributed during various events, reports, published and unpublished writings about the many issues of concern to activists, photos, audio recordings, and communications among the activists who organized events. Oversize items include posters, signs used in teach-ins and protests, and rain ponchos and other objects worn or used in the protests. Personal accounts written after the protests describe the impact the events had on several individuals and often contrast sharply with media accounts of the same events.

Many items in this collection were created by organizations identified in the finding aid as subgroups. Other items were received and kept by these groups to document issues and events. Many gifts of this material were sought and received by WTO History Project staff in the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. Still other batches were collected by interested individuals and forwarded to the Libraries or to the Bridges Center. Subgroups have been established for the following records-creating organizations: the RECORDS SUBGROUP I: DIRECT ACTION NETWORK , a loosely-organized non-hierarchical umbrella organization for groups of protestors; RECORDS SUBGROUP II: EARTHJUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND , a nonprofit law firm that represents public interest clients; the RECORDS SUBGROUP III: INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION , a coalition of organizations concerned about the effects of globalization; the RECORDS SUBGROUP IV: KING COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL ; the Ralph Nader-sponsored RECORDS SUBGROUP V: PEOPLE FOR FAIR TRADE/NETWORK OPPOSED TO WTO and its UW student affiliate organization; and RECORDS SUBGROUP VI: PUBLIC CITIZEN'S GLOBAL TRADE WATCH , a coalition of trade and labor groups. The RECORDS SUBGROUP VII: ALAN RABINOWITZ includes materials contributed by Dr. Rabinowitz, a Seattle resident who helped fund educational activities in advance of the Ministerial. Included in it, besides audio cassettes of World Trade Watch are printed e-mails of preparatory reports, of writings of various friends and contacts of Rabinowitz, of correspondence about the creation of the Independent Media Center, and of news articles.

Although the RECORDS SUBGROUP VIII: NGO COMMITTE FOR THE SEATTLE HOST ORGANIZATION , the organization that sponsored the Ministerial is represented by a subgroup, this segment is very small and consists mainly of packets and other information for delegates.

During processing in 2000-2001, materials were also grouped chronologically within each subgroup. “ Pre-WTO” reflects advance planning and reports about issues posed by the World Trade Organization. “During WTO” documents activities during the week of the Ministerial meetings, November 29-December 3. “Post-WTO” includes subsequent analyses as well as local materials which address the activists’ counter-response to the police actions during the Ministerial week.

Major correspondents include Alan Rabinowitz; Jeremy Simer, an activist with People for Fair Trade/No to WTO; and Patti Goldman, an attorney with the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund and the environmental community’s representative to the Seattle Host Organization.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Some restrictions exist on copying, quotation or publication. Contact Repository for details.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized into 16 accessions.

  • Accession No. 5177-003, World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1993-2000
  • Accession No. 5177-004, World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1999
  • Accession No. 5177-005, World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1998-2000 December
  • Accession No. 5177-006, World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1999 October-2000 December
  • Accession No. 5177-007, World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1999-1999
  • Accession No. 5177-008, World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 2000
  • Accession No. 5177-009, WTO Seattle collection, 1999
  • Accession No. 5177-010, WTO Seattle collection, 1999
  • Accession No. 5177-011, WTO Seattle collection, 1996-2000
  • Accession No. 5177-012, WTO Seattle collection, 2000
  • Accession No. 5177-013, WTO Seattle and global justice collection, 1998-2011
  • Accession No. 5177-014, WTO Seattle collection, 1999-2003
  • Accession No. 5177-015, Ruth Yarrow WTO Seattle protests collection, 1999
  • Accession No. 5177-016, World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference umbrella, bag, and media guide, 1999
  • Accession No. 5177-017, "No World Trade Without Workers Rights" WTO protest banner, 1999
  • Accession No. 5177-018, World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Bus Advertisement Sign, 1999

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Accession No. 5177-003: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1993-2000Return to Top

31.17 cubic feet (15 boxes, 3 tubes, 5 oversized objects)

Scope and Content: Issue files consisting primarily of clippings as well as organizational files and ephemera used by People for Fair Trade/No To WTO. Records of other organizations such as Direct Action Network, EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund, International Forum On Globalization, King County Labor Council, No To WTO/UW, and Seattle Host Organization NGO Committee include: correspondence, email, calendars, packets, minutes, newsletters, news releases, speeches and writings, publications, ephemera, posters, videotapes, artifacts, maps, lists. Also includes personal accounts, audio tapes, photographs, ephemera, posters, and picket signs, from other sources, documenting opposition groups' preparations for the WTO round in Seattle, WTO week protests and events and the aftermath, 1999-2000.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users, but access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact repository for details.

Restrictions on Use: Some restrictions exist on copying, quotation or publication. Contact Repository for details.

Processing Info: Accession 5177-003 was formed by a merger of accession 5177-001 received 4/29/2000 and accession 5177-002 received 1/5/2001.

Container(s) Description Dates
item
RECORDS SUBGROUP I
DIRECT ACTION NETWORK (DAN) )
Part 1: Pre-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 5177-003
Organizing Packets
1/2 5177-003
Agenda – Neighborhood Groups Meeting
8/28/99
1/3 5177-003
Memoranda
1/4 5177-003
Subject Series - Street Theater Convergence
1/5 5177-003
Ephemera
Part 2: During WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/6 5177-003
Action Packet
1/7-8 5177-003
Bibliographies—News Articles re WTO Protests
11/30/1999-1/6/2000
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
1/9 5177-003
Legal Team
1/10 5177-003
Radical Jeerleaders’ Cheers
Box/Folder Accession
1/11 5177-003
Ephemera
Artifacts (Used at Teach-In, in DAN office, and during Week of WTO) OVERSIZED
Flags
Box/Folder Accession
15/1 5177-003
Yellow/Gray “Resist”
Red/Blue “Rise Up”
Posters
Box/Folder Accession
15/2 5177-003
“November 30, 1999—Resist the WTO”
“World Trade Organization—What Are They Trading Away?”
“No To WTO!”
“Vote”
“Alienation”
“The WTO is Biocide”
“We Oppose the WTO”
“Whose World Are They Trading Away?”
Box/Folder Accession
15/3 5177-003
“Peaceful Protest Zone”
“Tell the WTO”
“Things We Oppose:”
“Citizens’ Trade Campaign”
“Sierra Club. No Globalization”
Box/Folder Accession
11/1 5177-003
DAN Legal Team ID Badge
Part 3: Post-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/12 5177-003
Organization – DAN Continental Confederation
1/13 5177-003
General Correspondence
12/99
1/14 5177-003
Meeting Notes
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
1/15-17 5177-003
Legal Team
1/18 5177-003
Medical Collective
Box/Folder Accession
1/19 5177-003
Ephemera
RECORDS SUBGROUP II
EARTHJUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
Part 1: Pre-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/20 5177-003
Outgoing Letter
7/15/99
1/21 5177-003
Calendars
Speeches and Writings
Box/Folder Accession
1/22 5177-003
Goldman, P. and J. Fawcett-Long, Farms and Food Safety At Risk
undated
1/23 5177-003
Goldman, P. & J. Scott, Our Forests at Risk
9/1999
1/24 5177-003
Goldman, P. & M. Wagner, Trading Away Public Health
11/1999
1/25 5177-003
Puckett, Jim, When Trade is Toxic
10/1999
1/26 5177-003
Wagner, M. & P. Goldman, The Case for Rethinking the WTO
11/1999
1/27 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
1/28 5177-003
Billboard Campaign
1/29 5177-003
Coffee, Birds and Trade Policy
10/1999
1/30 5177-003
Environmental Media Services Briefing
1/31 5177-003
Sierra Club - Bioinvasions
1/32 5177-003
Trade Pacts
7/24/99
Box/Folder Accession
1/33 5177-003
Newsletters – WTO News: The Road To Seattle
9/10 – 10/20/99
1/34 5177-003
News Release
12/1/99
1/35 5177-003
Ephemera
9/7/99
1/36 5177-003
Clippings
Part 2: During WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/37 5177-003
Calendars & Schedules
1/38 5177-003
Lists – Delegates and Observers
1/39 5177-003
Videotape—The WTO’s Race to the Bottom
1/40-41 5177-003
Newsletter – World Trade Observer
Nov-Dec. 1999
1/42 5177-003
News Release
12/1/99
1/43 5177-003
Photographs (Negatives only)
RECORDS SUBGROUP III:
INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION
Part 1: Pre-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/44 5177-003
Organization
1/45 5177-003
News Release
1/46 5177-003
Timeline—The Trouble With Trade, 1944-1999
1/47 5177-003
Report – “Beyond The WTO”
12/26/99
1/48 5177-003
List – WTO Publications
Speeches and Writings
Box/Folder Accession
1/49 5177-003
Anderson, Sarah, Ed., Views From the South
undated
1/50 5177-003
Barker, D. & J. Mander, Invisible Government
10/99
1/51 5177-003
Clarke, Tony, By What Authority!
undated
1/52 5177-003
Menotti, Victor, Free Trade, Free Logging
11/99
1/53 5177-003
Unidentified, “Eight Myths of Economic Globalization”
undated
Part 2: During WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/54 5177-003
Audiocassettes (2)—Teach-In
11/26-27/99
1/55 5177-003
Videotape—Town Hall Debate
11/30/99
1/56 5177-003
Invitation
1/57 5177-003
News Releases
RECORDS SUBGROUP IV
KING COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL
Part 1: Pre-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/58 5177-003
Incoming Letter – Labor Party. Seattle Chapter
undated
1/59 5177-003
Outgoing Letter - Invitation to Student Activists re WTO Rally
11/3/1999
1/60 5177-003
Planning Packet
1/61 5177-003
Packet – “Workers’ Rights and the World Trade Organization (AFL-CIO)
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
1/62 5177-003
Baskin, Martha
8/2/99-2/12/2000
1/63 5177-003
Coalition of Labor Union Women
1/64 5177-003
Herman, Alexis, US Secretary of Labor, Speech
10/25/1999
1/65 5177-003
Port Truck Driver Campaign
9/99
1/66 5177-003
Washington State Labor Council
9/99
Box/Folder Accession
1/67 5177-003
Newsletters—Labor’s Voice
10/99
1/68 5177-003
Speeches and Writings
Feldman, Rich, “New Rules For the Global Economy”
9/15/99
1/69 5177-003
Ephemera
Part 2: Post-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/70 5177-003
Speeches and Writings – Ohio AFL-CIO President
2/15/00
RECORDS SUBGROUP V:
NO! TO WTO--UW
Part 1: Pre-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
1/71 5177-003
Incoming Letters – King County Labor Council
11/3/99
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
1/72 5177-003
Corporate Watch
9/98-8/99
1/73 5177-003
Eat The State
9&11/99
Justice
9-10/99
Ruckus
Box/Folder Accession
1/74 5177-003
Sweatshop Watch
10/20/99
Box/Folder Accession
1/75 5177-003
Personal Account – Ramy Khalil
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
1/76 5177-003
Committees
1/77 5177-003
Maquiladora Industry
10/20/99
Box/Folder Accession
1/78-80 5177-003
Guides For Organizers
1/81 5177-003
Background Facts re WTO
1/82 5177-003
Surveys
Speeches and Writings
Box/Folder Accession
2/1 5177-003
Hyde, David, “The WTO Does Not Affect You!”
11/28/99
2/2 5177-003
Murphy, Gillian & L. Mogford and D. Hyde, “A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organization”
10/25/99
2/3 5177-003
Unidentified, “Welcome fellow Students!”
11/30/99
Speeches and Writings by Others
Box/Folder Accession
2/4 5177-003
Clinton, Bill. Remarks By the President at the Democratic Leadership Council Gala
10/13/99
2/5 5177-003
Lucas, Caroline, Watchful In Seattle
11/99
2/6 5177-003
Miller, Scott. Director, National Government Relations, Proctor & Gamble. Statement Before the Interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee
6/7/99
2/7 5177-003
Schweke, William and Robert K. Stumberg, Could Economic Development Become Illegal In the New Global Policy Environment?
7/99
2/8-16 5177-003
Copies of Published Articles
Box/Folder Accession
2/17 5177-003
Clippings
2/18 5177-003
Ephemera
Part 2: During WTO
Box/Folder Accession
2/19 5177-003
Organizer’s Guide
Ephemera
Box/Folder Accession
2/20 5177-003
Student Walkout
2/21 5177-003
Misc.
Part 3: Post-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
2/22 5177-003
Newsletter – Ruckus
1/2000
2/23 5177-003
Ephemera
RECORDS SUBGROUP VI
PEOPLE FOR FAIR TRADE/NO TO WTO
Part 1: Pre-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
2/24 5177-003
Organization - Website
2/25 5177-003
Incoming Letters
8/6 – 9/7/99
2/26 5177-003
Outgoing Letters
7/30/99
2/27-28 5177-003
Meeting Notes
7/9 – 8/24/00
2/29 5177-003
Memoranda
2/30-31 5177-003
Calendars
2/32 5177-003
Pledge Cards
Lists
Box/Folder Accession
2/33 5177-003
Ballard Meeting Facilities
2/34 5177-003
Experts, Speakers, Meeting Attendance
2/35-36 5177-003
Media Web Sites
2/37 5177-003
Websites
2/38 5177-003
WTO Project
Box/Folder Accession
2/39 5177-003
Maps
10/1 5177-003
Telephone Logs 11/18/99 – 3/14/00 CLOSED until 5/2005
2/40 5177-003
Packet–“Loaded against the poor, World Trade Organisation” Oxfam
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
2/41 5177-003
Buckhorn Bulletin
8/99
Center Focus
11/99
Corporate Europe Observer
7/99
Box/Folder Accession
2/42 5177-003
Drillbits & Tailings
10/23/99
2/43 5177-003
High Country News
9/97
2/44 5177-003
Report From Washington
2/6/98
2/45 5177-003
Washington Trout Report1998
Publications
Box/Folder Accession
2/46 5177-003
Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange
11/99, n.d
2/47 5177-003
“Handbood for Nonviolent Action”
2/48 5177-003
Multinational Monitor
10-11/99
2/49 5177-003
NAFTA Superhighways
1998
2/50 5177-003
“One Big Movement, Creating the End of Corporate Rule”
undated
2/51 5177-003
“The WTO, Global Capitalism and the Socialist Alternative” publ. by Justice
Box/Folder Accession
2/52 5177-003
Writing – Madsen, Jeremy
9/4/99
Speeches and Writings by Others
Box/Folder Accession
2/53 5177-003
Statements re: International Day of Action Against the WTO
9/15/99
2/54 5177-003
Collingsworth, Terry, “U.S. Advocacy for Reform of the WTO—Progress or Posturing?”
undated
2/55 5177-003
Cornwell, Rachel and Andrew Wells, “Deploying Insecurity”
1999
2/56 5177-003
Korten, David C., The Lexus and the Olive Tree A Book Review
undated
2/57 5177-003
Lamy, Pascal, “Communication from the Trade DG of the European Commission”
10/6/99
2/58 5177-003
Mokhiber, Russell & Robert Weissman, “10 Reasons to Dismantle the WTO”
undated
2/59 5177-003
Unidentified, “Ministerial Decision on Trade, Globalisation, Development and Labour Issues”
3/12/99
2/60 5177-003
Newsletter Articles from e-Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
2/61 5177-003
Fact Sheets
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
2/62 5177-003
Adbusters Originals
undated
2/63 5177-003
Animal Rights
1999
2/64 5177-003
Ballard-Fremont Neighborhood
8/99
2/65 5177-003
Bananas
1999
2/66-67 5177-003
Churches
1999
2/68 5177-003
Clise Property
1999
2/69 5177-003
Delegate Visa Problems
11/8/1999
2/70-74 5177-003
Democracy/Legalities
1999, n.d.
2/75 5177-003
Downtown Seattle Association
1999
2/76 5177-003
Education/Youth
1999
2/77 5177-003
Environment Issues
10 – 11/99
2/78 5177-003
Forests
undated
2/79 5177-003
Fundraisers
10/4/99
2/80-81 5177-003
Health
6/99, n.d.
2/82 5177-003
Joint Pledge Card Proposal
1999
2/83 5177-003
King County Council Resolution
8-9/99
2/84-86 5177-003
Labor
1999, n.d.
2/87 5177-003
Larson, Eric
undated
2/88-89 5177-003
Logistics
11/99, nd.
2/90 5177-003
Methodist Church
1999, n.d.
2/91 5177-003
NGO Press Center
11/99
2/92 5177-003
Neighborhood Organizations
8-9/99
2/93 5177-003
No! WTO Student Teach-In
11/6/99
2/94 5177-003
“The Opposition”—CIBER/UW, Simer, Jeremy
7/99, n.d.
2/95 5177-003
“The Opposition”—WTO & SHO Information, Simer, Jeremy
1999
2/96 5177-003
Seattle Student/Youth Organizing
8-9/99
2/97-101 5177-003
Social Justice
1999
2/102 5177-003
Street Committee
8/25/99
2/103-105 5177-003
Trade/WTO Anti-Corp
1998-99
2/106 5177-003
Trade/WTO Pro-Trade
n.d.
2/107-110 5177-003
Trade/WTO—Trade Treaties
1993-99
2/111 5177-003
Volunteers
9-11/99
2/112 5177-003
Washington Council on International Trade
5/2000
2/113 5177-003
Workers & Families For Free Trade
n.d.
Box/Folder Accession
3/1 5177-003
Notice re Noise Ordinance
3/2 5177-003
Resolutions - Labor
3/3 5177-003
Conference - Evergreen State College
10/23-24/1999
3/4 5177-003
Graphics
3/5 5177-003
Notes
3/6-7 5177-003
News Releases
3/8-11 5177-003
Ephemera
3/12-27 5177-003
Chronological Files (Mostly clippings)
6/99-11/28/99
3/28 5177-003
Clippings
11/24-25/1999
3/29-38 5177-003
Clippings - Articles, In-Depth
Posters OVERSIZED
Box/Folder Accession
14/1 5177-003
Information about WTO and its record --Foamboard 3-panel
Tube 17 5177-003
No To WTO Teach-In
11/6/99
Part 2: During WTO
Box/Folder Accession
3/36 5177-003
Schedule
3/37 5177-003
Notebook – “Front Desk Information”
Speeches and Writings
Box/Folder Accession
3/38 5177-003
Chants
3/39 5177-003
Humane Society of the United States
11/29/99
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
3/40 5177-003
Food and Agriculture Day
1999
10/2 5177-003
Infernal Noise Brigade
3/41 5177-003
Medics—Re Basic Medic Kit
11/22/99
3/42 5177-003
Oleoresin Capsicum (Pepper Spray)
11/30/99
3/43 5177-003
Protest Targets
1999
3/44 5177-003
Seattle International Peoples’ Assembly
1999
3/45 5177-003
Volunteers
11/28-12/3/99
3/46 5177-003
Women, Development, Democracy Day at WTO
1999
3/47 5177-003
WTO Ministerial
1999
Publications
Box/Folder Accession
3/48 5177-003
Belltown’s Regrade Dispatch
12/12/99
3/49 5177-003
The Spectator (Seattle University)
12/2/99
Box/Folder Accession
3/50 5177-003
Newsletters
3/51 5177-003
News Releases
3/52 5177-003
Maps
tube:oversize
18 5177-003
Map OVERSIZED
General Notes: Large map of downtown Seattle used by the Direct Action Network in planning the shut-down of downtown Seattle Nov. 30, with the Convention Center at the epicenter and "pie slices" radiating outward; each of these slices was adopted by an "affinity group" or "cluster" of affinity groups and it was their responsibility to blockade their particular slice.
Box/Folder
3/53 5177-003
Photographs
3/54 5177-003
Financial Records
3/55-57 5177-003
Ephemera
Artifacts
Box/Folder Accession
11/2 5177-003
Armband, black, reads: “City-Wide Walkout”
11/3 5177-003
Bumper Stickers
11/4 5177-003
Buttons
11/5 5177-003
Cigarettes (presented to people released from jail)
11/6 5177-003
Hat, Parade Marshall’s
Particulate Mask
Box/Folder Accession
11/8 5177-003
Photograph of Dee Dee Rainbow, autographed
11/9 5177-003
Police Tape (false) reads: “Unseen Crimes”
11/10 5177-003
Swim Goggles
11/11 5177-003
T-Shirt, black, torn piece
11/12 5177-003
Item list, with notes, by Jeremy Simer
Posters OVERSIZED
Box/Folder Accession
13/1 5177-003
Calendars
13/2 5177-003
“Fremont/Ballard Neighborhood”
Handmade sign announcing opening of Network Opposed To World Trade Organization offices
Agenda (Handmade sign)
“Showdown In Seattle”
“Congratulations, Seattle”
“The Golf War”
Box/Folder Accession
13/3 5177-003
Miscellaneous Posters distributed by Dana Schuerholz
13/4 5177-003
Sierra Club
“The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”
“Make Trade Clean, Green, and Fair”
“No Globalization”
13/5 5177-003
“Tell Schell”
“Stop the Corporate World Takeover”
“Benefit!”
“Beyond the WTO Ministerial”
“Do You Know?”
Box/Folder Accession
13/6 5177-003
“That’s Right, Tiffany”
“Nine Things to Do”
“Shhhhhh”
World Trade Organization (Turtle)
Box/Folder Accession
13/7 5177-003
“Defend Free Speech” (Handmade Poster)
“Fair Trade”
“Food and Agriculture Day”
“Stop the WTO!”
“We Believe in Fair Trade, How About You, Al Gore?”
Box/Folder Accession
Tube 16 5177-003
Banner OVERSIZED
“WTO Hurts Working Families--Seattle Center Rally and Meeting Nov. 30/1999 8 am” (street banner—white with red Letters—airflow cuts)
Part 3: Post-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
3/58 5177-003
Minutes
12/13/99
3/59 5177-003
Incoming Letters
12/7/99-7/28/00
3/60 5177-003
Outgoing Letter
3/61 5177-003
Speeches and Writings - Atkin, Jerry, Jobs With Justice
undated
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
3/62 5177-003
N30 Mural Project
3/63 5177-003
Views on Food and Agriculture Day
Box/Folder Accession
3/64 5177-003
Newsletter - World Affairs
12/99
Publications
Box/Folder Accession
3/65 5177-003
Bringing Democracy Home
4/2000
3/66 5177-003
Rebuild the Balkans
7/1999
3/67 5177-003
Standing
3/2000
Box/Folder Accession
4/1 5177-003
Report - Seattle International Peoples’ Assembly—Report from the Secretariat
1/00-2/00
Web Page Printouts
Box/Folder Accession
4/2 5177-003
Eat the State
4/3 5177-003
Pure Food
4/4 5177-003
World Socialist
4/5 5177-003
World Trade Organization
Box/Folder Accession
4/6 5177-003
Ephemera – re: Celebration of Victory
4/7-8 5177-003
Ephemera
RECORDS SUBGROUP VII
PUBLIC CITIZEN'S GLOBAL TRADE WATCH
Part 1: Pre-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
4/9 5177-003
Organization
4/10 5177-003
Outgoing Letter
8/31/99
4/11 5177-003
Contact Lists – Environmental and Health Day
4/12 5177-003
Packet – “WTO: What Are We Trading Away?”
undated
4/13 5177-003
Subject Series - Michael Moore, Director of WTO
10/1/1999
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
4/14 5177-003
Eco WTO Watch
4/99
4/15 5177-003
Harmonization Alert
11/98, 6/99-7/99
Box/Folder Accession
4/16 5177-003
News Releases
Speeches and Writings
Box/Folder Accession
4/17 5177-003
Nader, Ralph & Lori Wallach, “GATT, NAFTA, and the Subversion of the Democratic Process”
undated
4/18 5177-003
Parrish, Geov, “Shutting Down Seattle”
8/19/99
4/19 5177-003
Wallach, Lori M., International ‘Harmonization’ of Social, Economic, and Environmental Standards
7/98
4/20 5177-003
Wallach, Lori M., Testimony of Lori Wallach, Global Trade Watch, Re: U.S. Preparations for the WTO’s 1999 Ministerial Meeting
8/5/99
4/21 5177-003
“Comments of Public Citizen…”
10/22/98
4/22 5177-003
“Five-Year Record of WTO Reveals Disturbing Trends: Food Safety, Environment Undermined, Accountable Governance Eroded”
10/13/99
Statement of Joan Claybrook on WTO
10-13-99
Box/Folder Accession
4/23 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Publications
Box/Folder Accession
4/24 5177-003
Anderson, Alfred F., Challenging Newt Gingrich
1996
4/25 5177-003
A Citizen’s Guide To The World Trade Organization
7/99
Box/Folder Accession
4/26 5177-003
Ephemera
4/27 5177-003
Miscellany
Part 2: During WTO
Box/Folder Accession
4/28 5177-003
Schedule
4/29 5177-003
Newsletter - Mobilization Against Corporate Globalization
11/29-12/3/00
4/30 5177-003
News Releases
RECORDS SUBGROUP VIII
ALAN RABINOWITZ
Box/Folder Accession
9/1-8 5177-003
E-mail On Floppy Disk With Printouts—“65 Files Plus Early Newspaper Clippings.” Includes Copy Of The Fake Seattle Post-intelligence Of 11/30/99
7 – 12/99
Part 1: Pre-WTO
Incoming Letters
Box/Folder Accession
4/31 5177-003
International Forum on Globalization
10/22/98-11/17/99
4/32 5177-003
Miscellaneous
2/20-11/21/99
Box/Folder Accession
4/33 5177-003
Outgoing Letter
4/12/99
4/34 5177-003
Audiocassettes:
Making Contact, Democracy for Sale
7/7/99
World Trade Watch Demo Tape
undated
Subject Series – Institute For Agriculture and Trade Policy
Box/Folder Accession
4/35 5177-003
Incoming Letters
1/27/99-8/10/99
4/36 5177-003
Annual Reports
1996-97, 98-99
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
4/37 5177-003
Agriculture Biodiversity News
11/98-3/99
4/38 5177-003
The Road to Seattle Issue VII
9/10/99
4/39 5177-003
IPR---info: Information About Intellectual Property Rights
5/95-7/98
Box/Folder Accession
4/40 5177-003
Proceedings - Meeting on the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
9/30-10/4/98
Speeches and Writings
Box/Folder Accession
4/41 5177-003
Dawkins, Kristen, “Defending Biological Diversity and Food Security in the Face of Globalization”
11/97
4/42 5177-003
Dawkins, Kristen, “Trade Strategy of U.S.: Analysis of Current Agricultural Policy”
1/8/99
4/43 5177-003
Dawkins, Kristen & Steve Suppan, Sterile Fields: The Impacts of Intellectual Property Rights and Trade on Biodiversity & Food Security
11/96
4/44 5177-003
Hausknost, Daniel, “In Europe, Consumers Think Twice: A look at the Uproar Over Genetically Engineered Food”
7/10/98
4/45 5177-003
Kraker, Daniel & Kristen Dawkins, “The Continuing Threat From Trade Negotiations”
3/99
4/46 5177-003
Lehman, Karen, “Alternatives To The Global Trading System For Agriculture”
5/16/96
4/47 5177-003
Murphy, Sophia, “Trade and Food Security—An Assessment Of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture”
1999
4/48 5177-003
Murphy, Sophia, Trade-Related Agenda, Development and Equity (Trade) Working Papers
11/99
4/49 5177-003
Teitel, M., Fund, C.S., and H. Shand, The Ownership of Life, When Patents and Values Clash
6/97
4/50 5177-003
“Building the ‘capacity to trade’ through trade related policy reform: Towards revising the Agreement on Agriculture and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights”
9/8/97
4/51 5177-003
“Strengthening Complementarities Between Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development”
3/17-18/98
Box/Folder Accession
4/52 5177-003
Ephemera
Subject Series - International Forum on Globalization
Box/Folder Accession
4/53 5177-003
Audiotapes - Teach-In
11/26/99
4/54 5177-003
Report - Beyond the WTO, Alternatives to Economic Globalization
11/26/99
4/55 5177-003
Partial Summary of Media Coverage—IFG WTO Campaign
undated
Speeches and Writings (Publications)
Box/Folder Accession
4/56 5177-003
Barker, D. & J. Mander, Invisible Government
10/99
4/57 5177-003
Barlow, Maude, Blue Gold
6/99
4/58 5177-003
Newsletters
10-11/99
4/59 5177-003
Publications
Speeches and Writings by Others
Box/Folder Accession
4/60 5177-003
Ad Hoc Working Group on the MAI, “ MAI—Democracy For Sale?”
undated
4/61 5177-003
Shrybman, Steven, “The World Trade Organization: The New World Constitution Laid Bare”
undated
4/62 5177-003
Cuernavaca Consensus—Draft
undated
4/63 5177-003
“Solidar Briefing”
11/99
Box/Folder Accession
4/64 5177-003
Ephemera
4/65 5177-003
Clippings
Part 2: During WTO
Box/Folder Accession
4/66-67 5177-003
Audiocassettes - World Trade Watch, Five Days of the WTO (10 tapes total, 2 sets)
11/29-12/3/99
4/68 5177-003
Workshop - Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
11/30/98
4/69 5177-003
Publications
4/70 5177-003
Ephemera
4/71 5177-003
Clippings
Part 3: Post-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
5/1 5177-003
Incoming Letters
World Trade Watch
12/11/99
International Forum On Globalization
12/20/99
5/2 5177-003
Outgoing Letter
2/1/2000
5/3 5177-003
Newsletters
Feb-Apr/2000
5/4-5 5177-003
Publications
5/6 5177-003
Clippings
5/7 5177-003
Ephemera
“The Whole World Is Watching, Art, Images & Literature From The WTO Protests” Center On Contemporary Art Exhibit Brochure
Misc.
RECORDS SUBGROUP IX:
SEATTLE HOST ORGANIZATION: NGO COMMITTEE
Box/Folder Accession
5/8 5177-003
Organization
Incoming Letters
Box/Folder Accession
5/9 5177-003
Wiehoff, Dale e-mail
2/17/99
5/10 5177-003
To Goldman, Patti
8/6/-11/24/99
Box/Folder Accession
5/11 5177-003
Outgoing Letter
5/12 5177-003
Calendars
Packets
Box/Folder Accession
5/13 5177-003
Corporate Hospitality
5/14 5177-003
Delegates’
Box/Folder Accession
5/15 5177-003
Agenda - Trade And Environment Session
12/2/1999
5/16 5177-003
Ephemera
Part 1: Pre-WTO
Box/Folder Accession
5/17 5177-003
Historical Features – World Trade Organization
5/18 5177-003
Incoming Letter – Fidel Castro To Jim Mcdermott
11/29/99
5/19 5177-003
Outgoing Letter – Church Council Of Greater Seattle To Castro
10/1/99
5/20 5177-003
Calendar
Packets/handbooks
Box/Folder Accession
5/21 5177-003
Alliance For Better Foods
5/22 5177-003
Body Shop – “Wasting Trade Opportunities”
5/23 5177-003
Global Environmental Protection
5/24 5177-003
Greenpeace International
5/25 5177-003
“A Handbook of World Trade” MinComEx Columbia
5/26 5177-003
Preamble Center
5/27 5177-003
National Wildlife Federation
5/28 5177-003
World Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
5/29 5177-003
Alliance For Democracy
5/30 5177-003
American Lands Alliance
8/6/99
5/31 5177-003
Asia Pacific Center for Justice and Peace
1998-99
5/32 5177-003
Coffee
5/33 5177-003
Falun Gong
11/99
5/34-35 5177-003
Friends Of The Earth
1999
5/36 5177-003
Grassroots International
5/37 5177-003
Green Party
1999
5/38 5177-003
International Federation for Alternative Trade
5/39 5177-003
Manana Coalition
10/5/99
5/40 5177-003
No On I-695 Campaign
5/41 5177-003
Pacific Northwest Junior State
5/42 5177-003
Ruckus Society
5/43 5177-003
Seattle Anarchist Response
5/44 5177-003
Seeds Of Liberation
5/45 5177-003
Sierra Club
5/46 5177-003
United For a Fair Economy
5/47-49 5177-003
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
5/50 5177-003
U.S. Congress
5/51 5177-003
Women and Trade
5/52 5177-003
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
5/53 5177-003
WTO Student Ambassador Program
Box/Folder Accession
5/54 5177-003
News Releases
Publications
Box/Folder Accession
5/55 5177-003
The Big Picture, Visualizing The Global Economy
Compost The Corporations
The Dispatcher
Dossier—Medicines
Box/Folder Accession
5/56 5177-003
Eat The State
3-11/1999
5/57 5177-003
Eugene Weekly
European Public Health Update
Handbook For Nonviolent Action
Infusion
Instant Planet
Box/Folder Accession
5/58 5177-003
Real Change
8-11/1999
5/59 5177-003
Seattle Weekly
5/60 5177-003
Storm Warning!
Street Roots
Teamsters On The Front Line—Local 174
Trade Union World
The World Bank
Z Magazine
Speeches And Writings
Box/Folder Accession
5/61 5177-003
Canwright, Lois, “Action Advice & Globalization and the WTO”
undated
5/62 5177-003
Godfried, Mike, “WTO Talking Points”
undated
5/63 5177-003
History Committee of the General Strike Committee, The Seattle General Strike of 1919
1999
5/64 5177-003
Stanton, Arnold, “Ode: To All Oligarchs And Their Minions”
1998
5/65 5177-003
Japan Proposal, “Toward the Establishment of Trade Rules For the 21st Century that Contribute to the Era of Diversity And Coexistence”
undated
5/66 5177-003
Japan Proposal, “Proposal of Japan on the WTO Negotiations”
5/67 5177-003
Legal Opinion re Child Labor Laws & Gatt
7/15/93
5/68 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Brochures
Box/Folder Accession
5/69 5177-003
Consumers International, “Consumer Rights and the Multilateral Trading System”
8/99
5/70 5177-003
Environmental Media Services, “Understanding International Trade and the Environment”
undated
5/71 5177-003
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, “Building Workers’ Human Rights Into the Global Trading System”
1999
6/1 5177-003
Royal Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals
6/2 5177-003
Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD)
10/99
6/3 5177-003
United States Trade Representative
6/4 5177-003
World Vision
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
6/5 5177-003
Socialist
6/6-7 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Box/Folder Accession
6/8 5177-003
Report – U.s. Trade Representative – “accelerated Tariff Liberalization…”
11/99
Lists
Box/Folder Accession
6/9 5177-003
Labor & NGO Allies
undated
6/10 5177-003
Seattle Public Library reading list
Ephemera
Box/Folder Accession
6/11 5177-003
Revolutionary Communist Party U.S.A. Seattle Branch
6/12-17 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Box/Folder Accession
6/18-20 5177-003
Clippings
Part 2:During WTO
Packets
Box/Folder Accession
6/21 5177-003
Delegate Packet
6/22 5177-003
Press Pack
6/23 5177-003
European Union Millennium Round Packet
6/24 5177-003
Seattle Round Agricultural Committee Media Packet
Box/Folder Accession
6/25-40 5177-003
Personal Accounts
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
6/41 5177-003
Citizens For Free Trade
undated
6/42 5177-003
Civil Disobedience
6/43 5177-003
Independent Media Center (incl. Newsletter – Blind Spot, A Daily Bulletin Of Underreported Anti-WTO Activism, Issues 1-5)
Ephemera
Box/Folder Accession
6/44 5177-003
Industrial Workers Of The World
11/99-1/00
6/45 5177-003
Seattle, City of
6/46 5177-003
Seattle Police Department
11/30/99,n.d.
6/47 5177-003
United Steelworkers of America
6/48 5177-003
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
6/49 5177-003
Washington Toxics Coalition
11/28/99, n.d.
Box/Folder Accession
6/50 5177-003
Court Paper
12/2/99
6/51 5177-003
Cartoons
12/1 5177-003
Comics Oversized
Publications
Box/Folder Accession
6/52 5177-003
Seattle Post Intelligence (Parody)
11/30/99
6/53 5177-003
Washington Free Press
11-12/99
6/54 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Publications (WTO Week Accounts)
Box/Folder Accession
6/55 5177-003
Labor Press
6/56 5177-003
Socialist Press
6/57-7/1 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Newsletters
Box/Folder Accession
7/2 5177-003
Bridges, Daily Update On The Third Ministerial Conference
12/3/99
7/3 5177-003
The Current
7/99-8/99
7/4 5177-003
Environment & Climate News
2/2000
7/5 5177-003
GovLink WTO Traffic Alerts
12/1-8/99
7/6 5177-003
Puget Sound Council Of Senior Citizens
10/99-1/00
7/7 5177-003
WTO Watch
12/99
Speeches And Writings
Box/Folder Accession
7/8 5177-003
Clinton, Wm. J., Remarks by the President at the Signing of ILO Convention 182
12/2/99
7/9 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Box/Folder Accession
7/10 5177-003
News Release - Caribbean Community
7/11 5177-003
Programs
“GMOs and the World Trade Organization: Food For Thought”
12/1/99
“Seattle Symposium On International Trade Issues In The First Decades Of The Next Century”
12/1/99
7/12-13 5177-003
Photographs
Conferences And Conventions
Box/Folder Accession
7/14 5177-003
ICFTU Conference on Globalisation and Workers’ Rights: Core Labour Standards in the Global Economy
11/28-29/99
7/15 5177-003
LELO—Workers’ Voices Coalition
12/4/99
Ephemera
Box/Folder Accession
7/16 5177-003
Events
7/17 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Box/Folder Accession
7/18-20 5177-003
Clippings
Artifacts Oversized
Box/Folder Accession
12/2 5177-003
Plastic WTO Rain Ponchos
12/3 5177-003
Black & Yellow “Insurrection” Banner
23 5177-003
Turtle Costumes
Picket Signs Oversized
Box/Folder Accession
19 5177-003
Darth Vader, on a stick
20 5177-003
“Reclaim The Streets”, on a stick
21 5177-003
Tear Gas Canister, on a stick
22 5177-003
Tree, on a stick
Posters Oversized
Box/Folder Accession
15/4 5177-003
WTO Octopus
12/4 5177-003
“First Amendment”
“Expose & Oppose the WTO”
“Nov. 30 No To WTO! People’s Assembly March & Rally”
“WTO Basta!”
“Junk WTO”
Box/Folder Accession
14/2 5177-003
“Congratulations Everyone” with Post-Intelligencer Front Page
12/4/99
No To WTO
Box/Folder Accession
14/3 5177-003
“Stop the Global Gamblers,” Foamboard
Union-Related Posters
“Labor Says WTO Ends Democracy”
Firefighters Logo, Foamboard
Teamsters Local 174—“No To WTO”
Box/Folder Accession
14/4 5177-003
Sweatshops (GAP)
Make Trade Green, Clean, and Fair (3)
Trade/Debt “Boomerangs”
Economic Institutionalized Racism
Seattle Police Department Training
Box/Folder Accession
14/5 5177-003
Stop the WTO
Art and Revolution Convergence
Box/Folder Accession
14/6 5177-003
Horsey 1999 Post-Intelligencer Cartoon (enlarged photocopy)
Poetry Event
Poem by Eric Larson
Training Posters
Part 3: Post-WTO
Subject Series
Box/Folder Accession
8/1 5177-003
China Admission To WTO
12/99
8/2 5177-003
Seattle. City Council Hearings
12/99 – 1/00
Box/Folder Accession
8/3 5177-003
Speeches And Writings
“Funder’s Network On Trade Globalization, Background Information”
3/00
Publicatons
Box/Folder Accession
8/4 5177-003
Eat The State
12/99-2/00
Fifth Estate
Spring 2000
Box/Folder Accession
8/5 5177-003
Leschi News
12/99, 1/00
8/6 5177-003
People’s Weekly World
12/99 – 1/00
8/7 5177-003
Washington Free Press
Jan-Feb. 2000
8/8 5177-003
Z Magazine
1/00
8/9 5177-003
Spanish Language
8/10 5177-003
Miscellaneous
Box/Folder Accession
8/11-14 5177-003
Ephemera
8/15-16 5177-003
Clippings
Posters Oversized
Box/Folder Accession
12/5 5177-003
Jubilee 2000
N30 “We will not be silenced”
N30 Whose Day? Our Day!
Box/Folder Accession
14/7 5177-003
Anarchist Teach-In Handmade Posters (2)
3/2000
Box/Folder Accession
12-23 5177-003
Oversized Material (as Described Above)

Accession No. 5177-004: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1999Return to Top

2.33 cubic feet (2 boxes )
includes 5 videotapes

Scope and Content: Posters, videotapes, ephemera, and published material. Videotapes include the four-part video "Labor Beat: WTO Seattle."

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Rights in artwork and videos not transferred. Materials may be loaned for exhibits in secure locations.

Acquisition Info: Donated 2/22/2001.

Accession No. 5177-005: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1998-2000 December (bulk 1999 August-2000 December)Return to Top

.42 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: Ephemera, publications, clippings, relating to the April 16, 2000 protest against the IMF at World Bank meeting in Washington D.C.,and the WTO demonstrations in Seattle; minutes of one post-WTO mtg, People for Fair Trade, transcript of radio program of a teach-in, 11/99, "The Day the WTO Stood Still," and a report by the ACLU of Washington on official responses to the Seattle protests.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Donated 3/26/2001.

Accession No. 5177-006: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1999 October-2000 December (bulk 1999 November-December)Return to Top

1.42 cubic feet (4 boxes)
Includes 14 videocassettes (VHS) and 1 compact disc sound recording

Scope and Content: Ephemera, videotaped speeches, independently produced videotapes of programs prior to and programs following the 1999 meetings in Seattle, compact disc recording of protest songs, T-shirt, publications, press releases.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Some restrictions exist on copying, quotation or publication. Contact Repository for details.

Acquisition Info: Donated 7/5/2001.

Accession No. 5177-007: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1999-1999 (bulk 1999)Return to Top

.42 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: Ephemera, publications, clippings, email, newsletters, news releases, documenting various opposition groups' preparations for the WTO round in Seattle, WTO week protests and events, and the aftermath.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Donated 8/16/2001.

Accession No. 5177-008: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 2000Return to Top

.42 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: Oral history transcripts of the WTO History Project.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Donated 9/25/2001.

Accession No. 5177-009: WTO Seattle collection, 1999Return to Top

0.42 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: This accession includes newsletters, flyers, and pamphlets relating to issues and events surrounding the WTO conference in Seattle in 1999 that were sent to lawyers at Earthjustice. Earthjustice was a registered NGO at the WTO conference, and specialized in environmental law. Some lawyers had published articles in the newsletters and were supposed to give lectures on Nov. 29, 1999, the day of the rally.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries

Acquisition Info: Earthjustice, March 26, 2007

Accession No. 5177-010: WTO Seattle collection, 1999Return to Top

6 cubic feet (1 box, 2 bundles)

Scope and Content: Picket signs and other oversize material related to preparation for and participation in the WTO protests of 1999. Created by various organizations, including SPEEA (AFL-CIO), Inland Boatmen's Union, Direct Action Network, and the Sierra Club.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries

Accession No. 5177-011: WTO Seattle collection, 1996-2000Return to Top

1 cubic foot (1 box)
Includes 7 video recordings

Scope and Content: Booklets, pamphlets, flyers, documents, and videos pertaining to Seattle's WTO protest of 1999. See printed email contents list in box.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries

Acquisition Info: Hans Nesse, July 10, 2008

Accession No. 5177-012: WTO Seattle collection, 2000Return to Top

.03 cubic feet (1 folder)

Scope and Content: Cops of the WTOwall calendar featuring photos and commentary about the protests.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries

Acquisition Info: Dan Halligan, April 10, 2013

Accession No. 5177-013: WTO Seattle and global justice collection, 1998-2011Return to Top

1.64 cubic feet (2 boxes)

Scope and Content: Contains publications, fliers, and ephemera relating to the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, as well as other materials on related issues of global justice, and the Occupy Olympia movement.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Trevor Griffey, August 29, 2013

Processing Info: Processed by A. Demeter, 2013.

Container(s) Description Dates
Before WTO protests
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 5177-013
IISD, The World Trade Organization and Sustainable Development: An Independent Assessment: A Report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development
1996
1/2 5177-013
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, The World Trade Organization (WTO) at 39 Months: A Sampling of the Damage and Dangers So Far
1998 March
1/3 5177-013
Booklets, fliers, etc. about WTO and/or promoting protests
circa 1999
1/4 5177-013
Handbooks, Action Packet
circa 1999
2/1 5177-013
Newspapers – Seattle Weekly OVERSIZE
1999 November 25
During WTO protests
Box/Folder Accession
1/5 5177-013
Publications, articles, clippings
1999 November
Newspapers OVERSIZE
Box/Folder Accession
2/2 5177-013
Seattle Post Intelligencer
1999 November 28-December 3
2/3 5177-013
Seattle Times
1999 November 29-December 4
2/4 5177-013
Seattle Gay News
1999 December 3
2/4 5177-013
Seattle Weekly
1999 December 2
2/4 5177-013
The Stranger (clippings)
1999 December 2
Box/Folder Accession
1/6 5177-013
Ephemera – Press badges, small fliers, stickers, parking tickets, ACLU rights cards, button
circa 1999 November
1/7 5177-013
CD – Christopher DeLaurenti, N30, “Live at the WTO November 30, 1999”
1999 November 30
After WTO protests
Box/Folder Accession
1/8 5177-013
ACLU of Washington, Out of Control: Seattle’s Flawed Response to Protests Against the World Trade Organization – A Special Report
2000 July
1/9 5177-013
Articles, clippings
circa 2000
1/10 5177-013
Claims against police
circa 2000
Newspapers OVERSIZE
Box/Folder Accession
2/5 5177-013
Seattle Times
1999 December 5-16
2/6 5177-013
Seattle Weekly (clippings)
1999 December 9-30
2/6 5177-013
The Stranger
1999 December 9-16
2/6 5177-013
Waging War on Dissent: A Report by the Seattle National Lawyers Guild WTO Legal Group
2000 Winter
Box/Folder Accession
2/7 5177-013
Poster - N29 benefit show OVERSIZE
undated
Global justice
Box/Folder Accession
1/11 5177-013
Magazines – In These Times; The Nation; Dollars and Sense; Left Turn
1998-2001
1/12 5177-013
Jubilee 2000 Coalition, The New Jubilee 2000 Debt Cutter’s Handbook: Breaking the Chains
1999
1/13 5177-013
Booklets, small publications
2000-2002
2/8 5177-013
Newspapers – Eat the State OVERSIZE
2002 April 24
1/14 5177-013
Occupy Olympia
2011

Accession No. 5177-014: WTO Seattle collection, 1999-2003Return to Top

0.18 cubic feet (1 box)

Biographical/Historical Note: Marjorie Van Cleef is a teacher and musician with the Bryn Mawr Peace Coalition. She has worked as the Program and Action Chair of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom.

Scope and Content: VHS tapes, fliers, newspapers, and other publications from and about the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, as well as Marjorie Van Cleef’s personal recollections from the demonstrations

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Marjorie Van Cleef, 2015-03-12

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Accession
1 5177-014
Marjorie Van Cleef's personal recollections from the WTO demonstrations
undated
1 5177-014
Shut Down the World Trade Organization newspaper
1999
1 5177-014
The WTO and the Global War System forum proceedings
1999
1 5177-014
"Celebrate Resistance to the WTO" flier
1999
1 5177-014
Clippings from The Stranger
1999
1 5177-014
Clippings from the New Haven Advocate
1999
1 5177-014
Storm Warning! Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist newsletter
1999
1 5177-014
Neoliberal Globalization: Cancun and Beyond, An In-Depth Report on the World Trade Organization
2003
1 5177-014
Z Magazine
2000
1 5177-014
The Progressive
2000
1 5177-014
Email print-out with the subject "lessons from Seattle and DC"
2000
1 5177-014
Indypendent newspaper clipping
undated
1 5177-014
"Revolt against Globalization" bumper sticker
undated
1 5177-014
2 VHS tapes of WTO demonstrations
2 videocassettes (VHS)
undated

Accession No. 5177-015: Ruth Yarrow WTO Seattle protests collection, 1999Return to Top

0.18 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: Ruth Yarrow's collection of materials relating to the planning and participation in the World Trade Organizational protests in Seattle in 1999. Ruth Yarrow was involved in the planning and overall events of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Ruth Yarrow, 2015-08-25

Accession No. 5177-016: World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference umbrella, bag, and media guide, 1999Return to Top

0.52 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: World Trade Organization Seattle Ministerial Conference umbrella, bag, and WTO media guide distributed to reporters covering the 1999 WTO conference in Seattle. This packet was donated by Stacy Sakamoto, a KIRO reporter in Seattle at the time.

Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Stacy Sakamoto

Accession No. 5177-017: "No World Trade Without Workers Rights" WTO protest banner, 1999Return to Top

0.70 cubic feet (1 box)

Biographical/Historical Note: Blue and gold cloth banner with the text "No World Trade Without Workers Rights". The banner was created by made by Carla Kiiskila and David Reynolds on November 29, 1999, on Vashon Island, Washington and was carried the next day by labor movement protesters at the world conference of the WTO in Seattle.

David Reynolds was a member of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 763 at the time and became Secretary-Treasurer in 2001. Carla Kiiskila was a legal intern on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters organizing campaign "United for Change," a successful effort to organize apple warehouse workers in Yakima and Wenatchee.

The banner was proudly carried by labor union members throught the protest against the WTO.

Scope and Content: Blue and gold cloth banner with the text "No World Trade Without Workers Rights." The banner was carried in the labor march protesting the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Seattle, Washington in 1999.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Lilah Smith on behalf of Carla Kiiskila and David Reynolds.

Accession No. 5177-018: World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Bus Advertisement Sign, 1999Return to Top

1 oversize bus advertisement

Scope and Content: "Bus card" advertisement for the WTO meeting in Seattle in 1999. The main text reads "Welcome, WTO; King County, Port of Seattle, Greater Seattle Region...a trade-friendly place to do business." The sign was torn off the side of a Seattle bus during the protests that occurred with the WTO meeting.

Physical/Technical Access: This sign is oversize and therefore mostly inaccessible to researchers.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

This sign is oversize and therefore mostly inaccessible to researchers.

Restrictions on Use: Status of creator's copyrights is unknown; restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use.

Acquisition Info: Paul A. Schafer

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Anti-globalization movement--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
  • Protest movements--Washington (State)--Seattle

Corporate Names

  • World Trade Organization. Ministerial Conference

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Goldman, Patti (creator)
    • Rabinowitz, Alan (creator)
    • Simer, Jeremy (creator)
    Corporate Names
    • AFL-CIO. King County Labor Council of Washington (creator)
    • Direct Action Network (creator)
    • Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund (creator)
    • Institute For Agriculture And Trade Policy (creator)
    • International Forum On Globalization (creator)
    • Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) (creator)
    • People For Fair Trade (creator)
    • Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch (creator)