WAUWTO1999SeattleProtest5177.xml Guide to the World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection 1993-2011 World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2007 (Last modified: 12/13/2024)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-12-31. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest collection 5177 47.51 cubic feet 34 boxes, including 27 videocassettes and 1 cd rom disk, 6 oversize objects, 3 tubes, 2 packages, and 1 vertical file 1993-2011 Protest materials from the 1999 WTO Ministerial Conference held in Seattle Collection materials are in English.

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.

Organized into 17 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 Accession No. 5177-019, World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest collection, 1999

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: Subgroup I: Direct Action Network, a loosely-organized non-hierarchical umbrella organization for groups of protestors Subgroup II: Earthjustice Legal Defense, a nonprofit law firm that represents public interest clients Subgroup III: International Forum on Globalization, a coalition of organizations concerned about the effects of globalization Subgroup IV: King County Labor Council The Ralph Nader-sponsored Subgroup V: People for Fair Trade/Network Opposed to WTO and its UW student affiliate organization Subgroup VI: Public Citien's Global Trade Watch, a coalition of trade and labor groups 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.

Subgroup VIII: NGO Committee for the Seattle Host Organization 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.

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Goldman, Patti Rabinowitz, Alan Simer, Jeremy AFL-CIO. King County Labor Council of Washington Direct Action Network Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund Institute For Agriculture And Trade Policy International Forum On Globalization People For Fair Trade Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch World Trade Organization. Ministerial Conference Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Anti-globalization movement--Washington (State)--Seattle Protest movements--Washington (State)--Seattle Labor History Labor Unions Civic Activism Washington (State) Seattle Accession No. 5177-003: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1993-2000 31.17 cubic feet 15 boxes, 3 tubes, and 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.

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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.

 Subgroup I: Direct Action Network (DAN) Part 1: Pre-WTO Organizing Packets 5177-003 Box 1 1 Agenda – Neighborhood Groups Meeting 8/28/99 5177-003 Box 1 2 Memoranda 5177-003 Box 1 3 Subject Series - Street Theater Convergence 5177-003 Box 1 4 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 1 5 Part 2: During WTO Action Packet 5177-003 Box 1 6 Bibliographies—News Articles re WTO Protests 11/30/1999-1/6/2000 5177-003 Box 1 7-8 Legal Team 5177-003 Box 1 9 Radical Jeerleaders' Cheers 5177-003 Box 1 10 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 1 11 Artifacts (Used at Teach-In, in DAN office, and during Week of WTO) Flag: Yellow/Gray "Resist" 5177-003 Box 15 1 Flag: Red/Blue "Rise Up" 5177-003 Box 15 1 Posters 5177-003 Box 15 2

"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?"

Posters 5177-003 Box 15 3

"Peaceful Protest Zone" "Tell the WTO" "Things We Oppose:" "Citizens' Trade Campaign" "Sierra Club. No Globalization"

DAN Legal Team ID Badge 5177-003 Box 11 1 Part 3: Post-WTO Organization – DAN Continental Confederation 5177-003 Box 1 12 General Correspondence 12/99 5177-003 Box 1 13 Meeting Notes 5177-003 Box 1 14 Legal Team 5177-003 Box 1 15-17 Medical Collective 5177-003 Box 1 18 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 1 19 Subgroup II: Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund Part 1: Pre-WTO Outgoing Letter 7/15/99 5177-003 Box 1 20 Calendars 5177-003 Box 1 21 Speeches and Writings Goldman, P. and J. Fawcett-Long, Farms and Food Safety At Risk undated 5177-003 Box 1 22 Goldman, P. & J. Scott, Our Forests at Risk 9/1999 5177-003 Box 1 23 Goldman, P. & M. Wagner, Trading Away Public Health 11/1999 5177-003 Box 1 24 Puckett, Jim, When Trade is Toxic 10/1999 5177-003 Box 1 25 Wagner, M. & P. Goldman, The Case for Rethinking the WTO 11/1999 5177-003 Box 1 26 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 1 27 Billboard Campaign 5177-003 Box 1 28 Coffee, Birds and Trade Policy 10/1999 5177-003 Box 1 29 Environmental Media Services Briefing 5177-003 Box 1 30 Sierra Club - Bioinvasions 5177-003 Box 1 31 Trade Pacts 7/24/99 5177-003 Box 1 32 Newsletters – WTO News: The Road To Seattle 9/10 – 10/20/99 5177-003 Box 1 33 News Release 12/1/99 5177-003 Box 1 34 Ephemera 9/7/99 5177-003 Box 1 35 Clippings 5177-003 Box 1 36 Part 2: During WTO Calendars & Schedules 5177-003 Box 1 37 Lists – Delegates and Observers 5177-003 Box 1 38 Videotape—The WTO's Race to the Bottom 5177-003 Box 1 39 Newsletter – World Trade Observer Nov-Dec. 1999 5177-003 Box 1 40-41 News Release 12/1/99 5177-003 Box 1 42 Photographs (Negatives only) 5177-003 Box 1 43 Subgroup III: International Forum on Globalization Part 1: Pre-WTO Organization 5177-003 Box 1 44 News Release 5177-003 Box 1 45 Timeline—The Trouble With Trade, 1944-1999 5177-003 Box 1 46 Report – "Beyond The WTO" 12/26/99 5177-003 Box 1 47 List – WTO Publications 5177-003 Box 1 48 Speeches and Writings Anderson, Sarah, Ed., Views From the South undated 5177-003 Box 1 49 Barker, D. & J. Mander, Invisible Government 10/99 5177-003 Box 1 50 Clarke, Tony, By What Authority! undated 5177-003 Box 1 51 Menotti, Victor, Free Trade, Free Logging 11/99 5177-003 Box 1 52 Unidentified, "Eight Myths of Economic Globalization" undated 5177-003 Box 1 53 Part 2: During WTO Audiocassettes (2)—Teach-In 11/26-27/99 5177-003 Box 1 54 Videotape—Town Hall Debate 11/30/99 5177-003 Box 1 55 Invitation 5177-003 Box 1 56 News Releases 5177-003 Box 1 57 Subgroup IV: King County Labor Council Part 1: Pre-WTO Incoming Letter – Labor Party. Seattle Chapter undated 5177-003 Box 1 58 Outgoing Letter - Invitation to Student Activists re WTO Rally 11/3/1999 5177-003 Box 1 59 Planning Packet 5177-003 Box 1 60 Packet – "Workers' Rights and the World Trade Organization (AFL-CIO) 5177-003 Box 1 61 Baskin, Martha 8/2/99-2/12/2000 5177-003 Box 1 62 Coalition of Labor Union Women 5177-003 Box 1 63 Herman, Alexis, US Secretary of Labor, Speech 10/25/1999 5177-003 Box 1 64 Port Truck Driver Campaign 9/99 5177-003 Box 1 65 Washington State Labor Council 9/99 5177-003 Box 1 66 Newsletters—Labor's Voice 10/99 5177-003 Box 1 67 Feldman, Rich, "New Rules For the Global Economy" 9/15/99 5177-003 Box 1 68 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 1 69 Part 2: Post-WTO Speeches and Writings – Ohio AFL-CIO President 2/15/00 5177-003 Box 1 70 Subgroup V: No! to WTO -- UW Part 1: Pre-WTO Incoming Letters – King County Labor Council 11/3/99 5177-003 Box 1 71 Newsletters Corporate Watch 9/98-8/99 5177-003 Box 1 72 Eat The State 9&11/99 5177-003 Box 1 73 Justice 9-10/99 5177-003 Box 1 73 Ruckus 5177-003 Box 1 73 Sweatshop Watch 10/20/99 5177-003 Box 1 74 Personal Account – Ramy Khalil 5177-003 Box 1 75 Committees 5177-003 Box 1 76 Maquiladora Industry 10/20/99 5177-003 Box 1 77 Guides For Organizers 5177-003 Box 1 78-80 Background Facts re WTO 5177-003 Box 1 81 Surveys 5177-003 Box 1 82 Speeches and Writings Hyde, David, "The WTO Does Not Affect You!" 11/28/99 5177-003 Box 2 1 Murphy, Gillian & L. Mogford and D. Hyde, "A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organization" 10/25/99 5177-003 Box 2 2 Unidentified, "Welcome fellow Students!" 11/30/99 5177-003 Box 2 3 Speeches and Writings by Others Clinton, Bill. Remarks By the President at the Democratic Leadership Council Gala 10/13/99 5177-003 Box 2 4 Lucas, Caroline, Watchful In Seattle 11/99 5177-003 Box 2 5 Miller, Scott. Director, National Government Relations, Proctor & Gamble. Statement Before the Interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee 6/7/99 5177-003 Box 2 6 Schweke, William and Robert K. Stumberg, Could Economic Development Become Illegal In the New Global Policy Environment? 7/99 5177-003 Box 2 7 Copies of Published Articles 5177-003 Box 2 8-16 Clippings 5177-003 Box 2 17 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 2 18 Part 2: During WTO Organizer's Guide 5177-003 Box 2 19 Student Walkout ephemera 5177-003 Box 2 20 Miscellaneous ephemera 5177-003 Box 2 21 Part 3: Post-WTO Newsletter – Ruckus 1/2000 5177-003 Box 2 22 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 2 23 Subgroup VI: People for Fair Trade/No to WTO Part 1: Pre-WTO Organization - Website 5177-003 Box 2 24 Incoming Letters 8/6 – 9/7/99 5177-003 Box 2 25 Outgoing Letters 7/30/99 5177-003 Box 2 26 Meeting Notes 7/9 – 8/24/00 5177-003 Box 2 27-28 Memoranda 5177-003 Box 2 29 Calendars 5177-003 Box 2 30-31 Pledge Cards 5177-003 Box 2 32 Lists Ballard Meeting Facilities 5177-003 Box 2 33 Experts, Speakers, Meeting Attendance 5177-003 Box 2 34 Media Web Sites 5177-003 Box 2 35-36 Websites 5177-003 Box 2 37 WTO Project 5177-003 Box 2 38 Maps 5177-003 Box 2 39 Telephone Logs 11/18/99 – 3/14/00 CLOSED until 5/2005 5177-003 Box 10 1 Packet–"Loaded against the poor, World Trade Organisation" Oxfam 5177-003 Box 2 40 Newsletters Buckhorn Bulletin 8/99 5177-003 Box 2 41 Center Focus 11/99 5177-003 Box 2 41 Corporate Europe Observer 7/99 5177-003 Box 2 41 Drillbits & Tailings 10/23/99 5177-003 Box 2 42 High Country News 9/97 5177-003 Box 2 43 Report From Washington 2/6/98 5177-003 Box 2 44 Washington Trout Report1998 5177-003 Box 2 45 Publications Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange 11/99, n.d 5177-003 Box 2 46 "Handbood for Nonviolent Action" 5177-003 Box 2 47 Multinational Monitor 10-11/99 5177-003 Box 2 48 NAFTA Superhighways 1998 5177-003 Box 2 49 "One Big Movement, Creating the End of Corporate Rule" undated 5177-003 Box 2 50 "The WTO, Global Capitalism and the Socialist Alternative" publ. by Justice 5177-003 Box 2 51 Writing – Madsen, Jeremy 9/4/99 5177-003 Box 2 52 Speeches and Writings by Others Statements re: International Day of Action Against the WTO 9/15/99 5177-003 Box 2 53 Collingsworth, Terry, "U.S. Advocacy for Reform of the WTO—Progress or Posturing?" undated 5177-003 Box 2 54 Cornwell, Rachel and Andrew Wells, "Deploying Insecurity" 1999 5177-003 Box 2 55 Korten, David C., The Lexus and the Olive Tree A Book Review undated 5177-003 Box 2 56 Lamy, Pascal, "Communication from the Trade DG of the European Commission" 10/6/99 5177-003 Box 2 57 Mokhiber, Russell & Robert Weissman, "10 Reasons to Dismantle the WTO" undated 5177-003 Box 2 58 Unidentified, "Ministerial Decision on Trade, Globalisation, Development and Labour Issues" 3/12/99 5177-003 Box 2 59 Newsletter Articles from e-Newsletters 5177-003 Box 2 60 Fact Sheets 5177-003 Box 2 61 Subject Series Adbusters Originals undated 5177-003 Box 2 62 Animal Rights 1999 5177-003 Box 2 63 Ballard-Fremont Neighborhood 8/99 5177-003 Box 2 64 Bananas 1999 5177-003 Box 2 65 Churches 1999 5177-003 Box 2 66-67 Clise Property 1999 5177-003 Box 2 68 Delegate Visa Problems 11/8/1999 5177-003 Box 2 69 Democracy/Legalities 1999, n.d. 5177-003 Box 2 70-74 Downtown Seattle Association 1999 5177-003 Box 2 75 Education/Youth 1999 5177-003 Box 2 76 Environment Issues 10 – 11/99 5177-003 Box 2 77 Forests undated 5177-003 Box 2 78 Fundraisers 10/4/99 5177-003 Box 2 79 Health 6/99, n.d. 5177-003 Box 2 80-81 Joint Pledge Card Proposal 1999 5177-003 Box 2 82 King County Council Resolution 8-9/99 5177-003 Box 2 83 Labor 1999, n.d. 5177-003 Box 2 84-86 Larson, Eric undated 5177-003 Box 2 87 Logistics 11/99, nd. 5177-003 Box 2 88-89 Methodist Church 1999, n.d. 5177-003 Box 2 90 NGO Press Center 11/99 5177-003 Box 2 91 Neighborhood Organizations 8-9/99 5177-003 Box 2 92 No! WTO Student Teach-In 11/6/99 5177-003 Box 2 93 "The Opposition"—CIBER/UW, Simer, Jeremy 7/99, n.d. 5177-003 Box 2 94 "The Opposition"—WTO & SHO Information, Simer, Jeremy 1999 5177-003 Box 2 95 Seattle Student/Youth Organizing 8-9/99 5177-003 Box 2 96 Social Justice 1999 5177-003 Box 2 97-101 Street Committee 8/25/99 5177-003 Box 2 102 Trade/WTO Anti-Corp 1998-99 5177-003 Box 2 103-105 Trade/WTO Pro-Trade n.d. 5177-003 Box 2 106 Trade/WTO—Trade Treaties 1993-99 5177-003 Box 2 107-110 Volunteers 9-11/99 5177-003 Box 2 111 Washington Council on International Trade 5/2000 5177-003 Box 2 112 Workers & Families For Free Trade n.d. 5177-003 Box 2 113 Notice re Noise Ordinance 5177-003 Box 3 1 Resolutions - Labor 5177-003 Box 3 2 Conference - Evergreen State College 10/23-24/1999 5177-003 Box 3 3 Graphics 5177-003 Box 3 4 Notes 5177-003 Box 3 5 News Releases 5177-003 Box 3 6-7 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 3 8-11 Chronological Files (Mostly clippings) 6/99-11/28/99 5177-003 Box 3 12-27 Clippings 11/24-25/1999 5177-003 Box 3 28 Clippings - Articles, In-Depth 5177-003 Box 3 29-38 Posters Information about WTO and its record --Foamboard 3-panel 5177-003 Box 14 1 No To WTO Teach-In 11/6/99 5177-003 Box 17 Part 2: During WTO Schedule 5177-003 Box 3 36 Notebook – "Front Desk Information" 5177-003 Box 3 37 Speeches and Writings Chants 5177-003 Box 3 38 Humane Society of the United States 11/29/99 5177-003 Box 3 39 Subject Series Food and Agriculture Day 1999 5177-003 Box 3 40 Infernal Noise Brigade 5177-003 Box 10 2 Medics—Re Basic Medic Kit 11/22/99 5177-003 Box 3 41 Oleoresin Capsicum (Pepper Spray) 11/30/99 5177-003 Box 3 42 Protest Targets 1999 5177-003 Box 3 43 Seattle International Peoples' Assembly 1999 5177-003 Box 3 44 Volunteers 11/28-12/3/99 5177-003 Box 3 45 Women, Development, Democracy Day at WTO 1999 5177-003 Box 3 46 WTO Ministerial 1999 5177-003 Box 3 47 Publications Belltown's Regrade Dispatch 12/12/99 5177-003 Box 3 48 The Spectator (Seattle University) 12/2/99 5177-003 Box 3 49 Newsletters 5177-003 Box 3 50 News Releases 5177-003 Box 3 51 Maps 5177-003 Box 3 52 Map (oversize) 5177-003 Box 18

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.

 Photographs 5177-003 Box 3 53 Financial Records 5177-003 Box 3 54 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 3 55-57 Artifacts Armband, black, reads: "City-Wide Walkout" 5177-003 Box 11 2 Bumper Stickers 5177-003 Box 11 3 Buttons 5177-003 Box 11 4 Cigarettes (presented to people released from jail) 5177-003 Box 11 5 Hat, Parade Marshall's 5177-003 Box 11 6 Particulate Mask 5177-003 Box 11 Photograph of Dee Dee Rainbow, autographed 5177-003 Box 11 8 Police Tape (false) reads: "Unseen Crimes" 5177-003 Box 11 9 Swim Goggles 5177-003 Box 11 10 T-Shirt, black, torn piece 5177-003 Box 11 11 Item list, with notes, by Jeremy Simer 5177-003 Box 11 12 Posters Calendars 5177-003 Box 13 1 Posters 5177-003 Box 13 2

"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"

Miscellaneous Posters distributed by Dana Schuerholz 5177-003 Box 13 3 Sierra Club posters 5177-003 Box 13 4

"The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" "Make Trade Clean, Green, and Fair" "No Globalization"

Posters 5177-003 Box 13 5

"Tell Schell" "Stop the Corporate World Takeover" "Benefit!" "Beyond the WTO Ministerial" "Do You Know?"

Posters 5177-003 Box 13 6

"That's Right, Tiffany" "Nine Things to Do" "Shhhhhh" World Trade Organization (Turtle)

Posters 5177-003 Box 13 7

"Defend Free Speech" (Handmade Poster) "Fair Trade" "Food and Agriculture Day" "Stop the WTO!" "We Believe in Fair Trade, How About You, Al Gore?"

Banner: "WTO Hurts Working Families--Seattle Center Rally and Meeting Nov. 30/1999 8 am" 5177-003 Box 16

Street banner—white with red Letters—airflow cuts

 Part 3: Post-WTO Minutes 12/13/99 5177-003 Box 3 58 Incoming Letters 12/7/99-7/28/00 5177-003 Box 3 59 Outgoing Letter 5177-003 Box 3 60 Speeches and Writings - Atkin, Jerry, Jobs With Justice undated 5177-003 Box 3 61 N30 Mural Project 5177-003 Box 3 62 Views on Food and Agriculture Day 5177-003 Box 3 63 Newsletter - World Affairs 12/99 5177-003 Box 3 64 Publication: Bringing Democracy Home 4/2000 5177-003 Box 3 65 Publication: Rebuild the Balkans 7/1999 5177-003 Box 3 66 Publication: Standing 3/2000 5177-003 Box 3 67 Report - Seattle International Peoples' Assembly—Report from the Secretariat 1/00-2/00 5177-003 Box 4 1 Web Page Printouts Eat the State 5177-003 Box 4 2 Pure Food 5177-003 Box 4 3 World Socialist 5177-003 Box 4 4 World Trade Organization 5177-003 Box 4 5 Ephemera – re: Celebration of Victory 5177-003 Box 4 6 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 4 7-8 Subgroup VII: Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Part 1: Pre-WTO Organization 5177-003 Box 4 9 Outgoing Letter 8/31/99 5177-003 Box 4 10 Contact Lists – Environmental and Health Day 5177-003 Box 4 11 Packet – "WTO: What Are We Trading Away?" undated 5177-003 Box 4 12 Subject Series - Michael Moore, Director of WTO 10/1/1999 5177-003 Box 4 13 Newsletter: Eco WTO Watch 4/99 5177-003 Box 4 14 Newsletter: Harmonization Alert 11/98, 6/99-7/99 5177-003 Box 4 15 News Releases 5177-003 Box 4 16 Speeches and Writings Nader, Ralph & Lori Wallach, "GATT, NAFTA, and the Subversion of the Democratic Process" undated 5177-003 Box 4 17 Parrish, Geov, "Shutting Down Seattle" 8/19/99 5177-003 Box 4 18 Wallach, Lori M., International 'Harmonization' of Social, Economic, and Environmental Standards 7/98 5177-003 Box 4 19 Wallach, Lori M., Testimony of Lori Wallach, Global Trade Watch, Re: U.S. Preparations for the WTO's 1999 Ministerial Meeting 8/5/99 5177-003 Box 4 20 "Comments of Public Citizen…" 10/22/98 5177-003 Box 4 21 "Five-Year Record of WTO Reveals Disturbing Trends: Food Safety, Environment Undermined, Accountable Governance Eroded" 10/13/99 5177-003 Box 4 22 Statement of Joan Claybrook on WTO 10-13-99 5177-003 Box 4 22 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 4 23 Publication: Anderson, Alfred F., Challenging Newt Gingrich 1996 5177-003 Box 4 24 Publication: A Citizen's Guide To The World Trade Organization 7/99 5177-003 Box 4 25 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 4 26 Miscellany 5177-003 Box 4 27 Part 2: During WTO Schedule 5177-003 Box 4 28 Newsletter - Mobilization Against Corporate Globalization 11/29-12/3/00 5177-003 Box 4 29 News Releases 5177-003 Box 4 30 Subgroup VIII: Alan Rabinowitz 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 5177-003 Box 9 1-8 Part 1: Pre-WTO Incoming Letters: International Forum on Globalization 10/22/98-11/17/99 5177-003 Box 4 31 Incoming Letters 2/20-11/21/99 5177-003 Box 4 32 Outgoing Letter 4/12/99 5177-003 Box 4 33 Audiocassettes 5177-003 Box 4 34

Making Contact, Democracy for Sale (7/7/99), and World Trade Watch Demo Tape

 Subject Series – Institute For Agriculture and Trade Policy Incoming Letters 1/27/99-8/10/99 5177-003 Box 4 35 Annual Reports 1996-97, 98-99 5177-003 Box 4 36 Newsletter: Agriculture Biodiversity News 11/98-3/99 5177-003 Box 4 37 Newsletter: The Road to Seattle Issue VII 9/10/99 5177-003 Box 4 38 Newsletter IPR---info: Information About Intellectual Property Rights 5/95-7/98 5177-003 Box 4 39 Proceedings - Meeting on the WTO Agreement on Agriculture 9/30-10/4/98 5177-003 Box 4 40 Speeches and Writings Dawkins, Kristen, "Defending Biological Diversity and Food Security in the Face of Globalization" 11/97 5177-003 Box 4 41 Dawkins, Kristen, "Trade Strategy of U.S.: Analysis of Current Agricultural Policy" 1/8/99 5177-003 Box 4 42 Dawkins, Kristen & Steve Suppan, Sterile Fields: The Impacts of Intellectual Property Rights and Trade on Biodiversity & Food Security 11/96 5177-003 Box 4 43 Hausknost, Daniel, "In Europe, Consumers Think Twice: A look at the Uproar Over Genetically Engineered Food" 7/10/98 5177-003 Box 4 44 Kraker, Daniel & Kristen Dawkins, "The Continuing Threat From Trade Negotiations" 3/99 5177-003 Box 4 45 Lehman, Karen, "Alternatives To The Global Trading System For Agriculture" 5/16/96 5177-003 Box 4 46 Murphy, Sophia, "Trade and Food Security—An Assessment Of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture" 1999 5177-003 Box 4 47 Murphy, Sophia, Trade-Related Agenda, Development and Equity (Trade) Working Papers 11/99 5177-003 Box 4 48 Teitel, M., Fund, C.S., and H. Shand, The Ownership of Life, When Patents and Values Clash 6/97 5177-003 Box 4 49 "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 5177-003 Box 4 50 "Strengthening Complementarities Between Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development" 3/17-18/98 5177-003 Box 4 51 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 4 52 Subject Series - International Forum on Globalization Audiotapes - Teach-In 11/26/99 5177-003 Box 4 53 Report - Beyond the WTO, Alternatives to Economic Globalization 11/26/99 5177-003 Box 4 54 Partial Summary of Media Coverage—IFG WTO Campaign undated 5177-003 Box 4 55 Speeches and Writings (Publications) Barker, D. & J. Mander, Invisible Government 10/99 5177-003 Box 4 56 Barlow, Maude, Blue Gold 6/99 5177-003 Box 4 57 Newsletters 10-11/99 5177-003 Box 4 58 Publications 5177-003 Box 4 59 Speeches and Writings by Others Ad Hoc Working Group on the MAI, " MAI—Democracy For Sale?" undated 5177-003 Box 4 60 Shrybman, Steven, "The World Trade Organization: The New World Constitution Laid Bare" undated 5177-003 Box 4 61 Cuernavaca Consensus—Draft undated 5177-003 Box 4 62 "Solidar Briefing" 11/99 5177-003 Box 4 63 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 4 64 Clippings 5177-003 Box 4 65 Part 2: During WTO Audiocassettes - World Trade Watch, Five Days of the WTO (10 tapes total, 2 sets) 11/29-12/3/99 5177-003 Box 4 66-67 Workshop - Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) 11/30/98 5177-003 Box 4 68 Publications 5177-003 Box 4 69 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 4 70 Clippings 5177-003 Box 4 71 Part 3: Post-WTO Incoming Letters 5177-003 Box 5 1

World Trade Watch (12/11/99) and International Forum on Globalization (12/20/99)

 Outgoing Letter 2/1/2000 5177-003 Box 5 2 Newsletters Feb-Apr/2000 5177-003 Box 5 3 Publications 5177-003 Box 5 4-5 Clippings 5177-003 Box 5 6 "The Whole World Is Watching, Art, Images & Literature From The WTO Protests" Center On Contemporary Art Exhibit Brochure 5177-003 Box 5 7 Miscellaneous ephemera 5177-003 Box 5 7 Subgroup IX: Seattle Host Organization: NGO Committee Organization 5177-003 Box 5 8 Incoming letter: Wiehoff, Dale e-mail 2/17/99 5177-003 Box 5 9 Incoming letters to Goldman, Patti 8/6/-11/24/99 5177-003 Box 5 10 Outgoing Letter 5177-003 Box 5 11 Calendars 5177-003 Box 5 12 Packet: Corporate Hospitality 5177-003 Box 5 13 Delegates' packets 5177-003 Box 5 14 Agenda - Trade And Environment Session 12/2/1999 5177-003 Box 5 15 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 5 16 General Records Part 1: Pre-WTO Historical Features – World Trade Organization 5177-003 Box 5 17 Incoming Letter – Fidel Castro To Jim Mcdermott 11/29/99 5177-003 Box 5 18 Outgoing Letter – Church Council Of Greater Seattle To Castro 10/1/99 5177-003 Box 5 19 Calendar 5177-003 Box 5 20 Packets/handbooks Alliance For Better Foods 5177-003 Box 5 21 Body Shop – "Wasting Trade Opportunities" 5177-003 Box 5 22 Global Environmental Protection 5177-003 Box 5 23 Greenpeace International 5177-003 Box 5 24 "A Handbook of World Trade" MinComEx Columbia 5177-003 Box 5 25 Preamble Center 5177-003 Box 5 26 National Wildlife Federation 5177-003 Box 5 27 World Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign 5177-003 Box 5 28 Subject Series Alliance For Democracy 5177-003 Box 5 29 American Lands Alliance 8/6/99 5177-003 Box 5 30 Asia Pacific Center for Justice and Peace 1998-99 5177-003 Box 5 31 Coffee 5177-003 Box 5 32 Falun Gong 11/99 5177-003 Box 5 33 Friends Of The Earth 1999 5177-003 Box 5 34-35 Grassroots International 5177-003 Box 5 36 Green Party 1999 5177-003 Box 5 37 International Federation for Alternative Trade 5177-003 Box 5 38 Manana Coalition 10/5/99 5177-003 Box 5 39 No On I-695 Campaign 5177-003 Box 5 40 Pacific Northwest Junior State 5177-003 Box 5 41 Ruckus Society 5177-003 Box 5 42 Seattle Anarchist Response 5177-003 Box 5 43 Seeds Of Liberation 5177-003 Box 5 44 Sierra Club 5177-003 Box 5 45 United For a Fair Economy 5177-003 Box 5 46 U.S. Chamber of Commerce 5177-003 Box 5 47-49 U.S. Congress 5177-003 Box 5 50 Women and Trade 5177-003 Box 5 51 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 5177-003 Box 5 52 WTO Student Ambassador Program 5177-003 Box 5 53 News Releases 5177-003 Box 5 54 Publications The Big Picture, Visualizing The Global Economy 5177-003 Box 5 55 Compost The Corporations 5177-003 Box 5 55 The Dispatcher 5177-003 Box 5 55 Dossier—Medicines 5177-003 Box 5 55 Eat The State 3-11/1999 5177-003 Box 5 56 Eugene Weekly 5177-003 Box 5 57 European Public Health Update 5177-003 Box 5 57 Handbook For Nonviolent Action 5177-003 Box 5 57 Infusion 5177-003 Box 5 57 Instant Planet 5177-003 Box 5 57 Real Change 8-11/1999 5177-003 Box 5 58 Seattle Weekly 5177-003 Box 5 59 Storm Warning! 5177-003 Box 5 60 Street Roots 5177-003 Box 5 60 Teamsters On The Front Line—Local 174 5177-003 Box 5 60 Trade Union World 5177-003 Box 5 60 The World Bank 5177-003 Box 5 60 Z Magazine 5177-003 Box 5 60 Speeches And Writings Canwright, Lois, "Action Advice & Globalization and the WTO" undated 5177-003 Box 5 61 Godfried, Mike, "WTO Talking Points" undated 5177-003 Box 5 62 History Committee of the General Strike Committee, The Seattle General Strike of 1919 1999 5177-003 Box 5 63 Stanton, Arnold, "Ode: To All Oligarchs And Their Minions" 1998 5177-003 Box 5 64 Japan Proposal, "Toward the Establishment of Trade Rules For the 21st Century that Contribute to the Era of Diversity And Coexistence" undated 5177-003 Box 5 65 Japan Proposal, "Proposal of Japan on the WTO Negotiations" 5177-003 Box 5 66 Legal Opinion re Child Labor Laws & Gatt 7/15/93 5177-003 Box 5 67 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 5 68 Brochures Consumers International, "Consumer Rights and the Multilateral Trading System" 8/99 5177-003 Box 5 69 Environmental Media Services, "Understanding International Trade and the Environment" undated 5177-003 Box 5 70 International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, "Building Workers' Human Rights Into the Global Trading System" 1999 5177-003 Box 5 71 Royal Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals 5177-003 Box 6 1 Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) 10/99 5177-003 Box 6 2 United States Trade Representative 5177-003 Box 6 3 World Vision 5177-003 Box 6 4 Newsletters Socialist 5177-003 Box 6 5 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 6 6-7 Report – U.s. Trade Representative – "accelerated Tariff Liberalization…" 11/99 5177-003 Box 6 8 Lists Labor & NGO Allies undated 5177-003 Box 6 9 Seattle Public Library reading list 5177-003 Box 6 10 Ephemera Revolutionary Communist Party U.S.A. Seattle Branch 5177-003 Box 6 11 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 6 12-17 Clippings 5177-003 Box 6 18-20 Part 2: During WTO Packets Delegate Packet 5177-003 Box 6 21 Press Pack 5177-003 Box 6 22 European Union Millennium Round Packet 5177-003 Box 6 23 Seattle Round Agricultural Committee Media Packet 5177-003 Box 6 24 Personal Accounts 5177-003 Box 6 25-40 Subject Series Citizens For Free Trade undated 5177-003 Box 6 41 Civil Disobedience 5177-003 Box 6 42 Independent Media Center (incl. Newsletter – Blind Spot, A Daily Bulletin Of Underreported Anti-WTO Activism, Issues 1-5) 5177-003 Box 6 43 Industrial Workers Of The World 11/99-1/00 5177-003 Box 6 44 Seattle, City of 5177-003 Box 6 45 Seattle Police Department 11/30/99,n.d. 5177-003 Box 6 46 United Steelworkers of America 5177-003 Box 6 47 Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist 5177-003 Box 6 48 Washington Toxics Coalition 11/28/99, n.d. 5177-003 Box 6 49 Court Paper 12/2/99 5177-003 Box 6 50 Cartoons 5177-003 Box 6 51 Comics Oversized 5177-003 Box 12 1 Publications Seattle Post Intelligence (Parody) 11/30/99 5177-003 Box 6 52 Washington Free Press 11-12/99 5177-003 Box 6 53 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 6 54 Publications (WTO Week Accounts) Labor Press 5177-003 Box 6 55 Socialist Press 5177-003 Box 6 56 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 6 57- Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 7 1 Newsletters Bridges, Daily Update On The Third Ministerial Conference 12/3/99 5177-003 Box 7 2 The Current 7/99-8/99 5177-003 Box 7 3 Environment & Climate News 2/2000 5177-003 Box 7 4 GovLink WTO Traffic Alerts 12/1-8/99 5177-003 Box 7 5 Puget Sound Council Of Senior Citizens 10/99-1/00 5177-003 Box 7 6 WTO Watch 12/99 5177-003 Box 7 7 Speeches And Writings Clinton, Wm. J., Remarks by the President at the Signing of ILO Convention 182 12/2/99 5177-003 Box 7 8 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 7 9 News Release - Caribbean Community 5177-003 Box 7 10 Programs 12/1/99 5177-003 Box 7 11

"GMOs and the World Trade Organization: Food For Thought" and "Seattle Symposium On International Trade Issues In The First Decades Of The Next Century"

 Photographs 5177-003 Box 7 12-13 Conferences And Conventions ICFTU Conference on Globalisation and Workers' Rights: Core Labour Standards in the Global Economy 11/28-29/99 5177-003 Box 7 14 LELO—Workers' Voices Coalition 12/4/99 5177-003 Box 7 15 Ephemera Events 5177-003 Box 7 16 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 7 17 Clippings 5177-003 Box 7 18-20 Oversize Artifacts Plastic WTO Rain Ponchos 5177-003 Box 12 2 Black & Yellow "Insurrection" Banner 5177-003 Box 12 3 Turtle Costumes 5177-003 Box 23 Oversize Picket Signs Darth Vader, on a stick 5177-003 Box 19 "Reclaim The Streets", on a stick 5177-003 Box 20 Tear Gas Canister, on a stick 5177-003 Box 21 Tree, on a stick 5177-003 Box 22 Oversize Posters WTO Octopus 5177-003 Box 15 4 Posters 5177-003 Box 12 4

"First Amendment" "Expose & Oppose the WTO" "Nov. 30 No To WTO! People's Assembly March & Rally" "WTO Basta!" "Junk WTO"

"Congratulations Everyone" with Post-Intelligencer Front Page and "No to WTO" 12/4/99 5177-003 Box 14 2 "Stop the Global Gamblers," Foamboard 5177-003 Box 14 3 Union-Related Posters 5177-003 Box 14 3

"Labor Says WTO Ends Democracy" Firefighters Logo, Foamboard Teamsters Local 174—"No To WTO"

Posters 5177-003 Box 14 4

Sweatshops (GAP) Make Trade Green, Clean, and Fair (3) Trade/Debt "Boomerangs" Economic Institutionalized Racism Seattle Police Department Training

Stop the WTO and Art and Revolution Convergence 5177-003 Box 14 5 Posters 5177-003 Box 14 6

Horsey 1999 Post-Intelligencer Cartoon (enlarged photocopy) Poetry Event Poem by Eric Larson Training Posters

Part 3: Post-WTO China Admission To WTO 12/99 5177-003 Box 8 1 Seattle. City Council Hearings 12/99 – 1/00 5177-003 Box 8 2 "Funder's Network On Trade Globalization, Background Information" 3/00 5177-003 Box 8 3 Publicatons Eat The State 12/99-2/00 5177-003 Box 8 4 Fifth Estate Spring 2000 5177-003 Box 8 4 Leschi News 12/99, 1/00 5177-003 Box 8 5 People's Weekly World 12/99 – 1/00 5177-003 Box 8 6 Washington Free Press Jan-Feb. 2000 5177-003 Box 8 7 Z Magazine 1/00 5177-003 Box 8 8 Spanish Language 5177-003 Box 8 9 Miscellaneous 5177-003 Box 8 10 Ephemera 5177-003 Box 8 11-14 Clippings 5177-003 Box 8 15-16 Oversize Poster Jubilee 2000 5177-003 Box 12 5 N30 "We will not be silenced" 5177-003 Box 12 5 N30 Whose Day? Our Day! 5177-003 Box 12 5 Anarchist Teach-In Handmade Posters (2) 3/2000 5177-003 Box 14 7 Accession No. 5177-004: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1999 2.33 cubic feet 2 boxes, including 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.

 World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection 5177-004 Box 1 World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection 5177-004 Box 2 Accession No. 5177-005: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1998-2000 December (bulk 1999 August-2000 December) .42 cubic feet

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.

 World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection 5177-005 Box 1 Accession No. 5177-006: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1999 October-2000 December (bulk 1999 November-December) 1.42 cubic feet 4 boxes, including 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.

 World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection 5177-006 Box 1 World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection 5177-006 Box 2 World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection 5177-006 Box 3 World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection 5177-006 Box 4 Accession No. 5177-007: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection, 1999 0.42 cubic feet

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.

 World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest Collection 5177-007 Box 1 Accession No. 5177-008: World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest oral history transcripts, 2000 0.42 cubic feet

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.

 World Trade Organization, 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest oral history transcripts 5177-008 Box 1 Accession No. 5177-009: WTO Seattle Earthjustice ephemera collection, 1999 0.42 cubic feet

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

 WTO Seattle Earthjustice ephemera collection 5177-009 Box 1 Accession No. 5177-010: WTO Seattle Picket Signs, 1999 6 cubic feet 3 boxes

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

 WTO Seattle Picket Signs 5177-010 Box 1 WTO Seattle Picket Signs 5177-010 Box 2 WTO Seattle Picket Signs 5177-010 Box 3 Accession No. 5177-011: WTO Seattle collection, 1996-2000 1.28 cubic feet 1 box, including 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

 WTO Seattle collection 5177-011 Box 1 Accession No. 5177-012: WTO Seattle Cops of the WTO calendar, 2000 1 vertical file

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

 WTO Seattle COPS of the WTO calendar 5177-012 VF2904 Accession No. 5177-013: WTO Seattle and global justice collection, 1998-2011 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.

 Before WTO protests IISD, The World Trade Organization and Sustainable Development: An Independent Assessment: A Report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development 1996 5177-013 Box 1 1 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 5177-013 Box 1 2 Booklets, fliers, etc. about WTO and/or promoting protests circa 1999 5177-013 Box 1 3 Handbooks, Action Packet circa 1999 5177-013 Box 1 4 Newspapers – Seattle Weekly OVERSIZE 1999 November 25 5177-013 Box 2 1 During WTO protests Publications, articles, clippings 1999 November 5177-013 Box 1 5 Seattle Post Intelligencer 1999 November 28-December 3 5177-013 Box 2 2 Seattle Times 1999 November 29-December 4 5177-013 Box 2 3 Seattle Gay News 1999 December 3 5177-013 Box 2 4 Seattle Weekly 1999 December 2 5177-013 Box 2 4 The Stranger (clippings) 1999 December 2 5177-013 Box 2 4 Ephemera – Press badges, small fliers, stickers, parking tickets, ACLU rights cards, button circa 1999 November 5177-013 Box 1 6 CD – Christopher DeLaurenti, N30, "Live at the WTO November 30, 1999" 1999 November 30 5177-013 Box 1 7 After WTO protests ACLU of Washington, Out of Control: Seattle's Flawed Response to Protests Against the World Trade Organization – A Special Report 2000 July 5177-013 Box 1 8 Articles, clippings circa 2000 5177-013 Box 1 9 Claims against police circa 2000 5177-013 Box 1 10 Seattle Times 1999 December 5-16 5177-013 Box 2 5 Seattle Weekly (clippings) 1999 December 9-30 5177-013 Box 2 6 The Stranger 1999 December 9-16 5177-013 Box 2 6 Waging War on Dissent: A Report by the Seattle National Lawyers Guild WTO Legal Group 2000 Winter 5177-013 Box 2 6 Poster - N29 benefit show OVERSIZE undated 5177-013 Box 2 7 Global justice Magazines – In These Times; The Nation; Dollars and Sense; Left Turn 1998-2001 5177-013 Box 1 11 Jubilee 2000 Coalition, The New Jubilee 2000 Debt Cutter's Handbook: Breaking the Chains 1999 5177-013 Box 1 12 Booklets, small publications 2000-2002 5177-013 Box 1 13 Newspapers – Eat the State OVERSIZE 2002 April 24 5177-013 Box 2 8 Occupy Olympia 2011 5177-013 Box 1 14 Accession No. 5177-014: WTO Seattle Marjorie Van Cleef collection, 1999-2003 0.18 cubic feet

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

 Marjorie Van Cleef's personal recollections from the WTO demonstrations undated 5177-014 Box 1 Shut Down the World Trade Organization newspaper 1999 5177-014 Box 1 The WTO and the Global War System forum proceedings 1999 5177-014 Box 1 "Celebrate Resistance to the WTO" flier 1999 5177-014 Box 1 Clippings from The Stranger 1999 5177-014 Box 1 Clippings from the New Haven Advocate 1999 5177-014 Box 1 Storm Warning! Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist newsletter 1999 5177-014 Box 1 Neoliberal Globalization: Cancun and Beyond, An In-Depth Report on the World Trade Organization 2003 5177-014 Box 1 Z Magazine 2000 5177-014 Box 1 The Progressive 2000 5177-014 Box 1 Email print-out with the subject "lessons from Seattle and DC" 2000 5177-014 Box 1 Indypendent newspaper clipping undated 5177-014 Box 1 "Revolt against Globalization" bumper sticker undated 5177-014 Box 1 2 VHS tapes of WTO demonstrations 2 videocassettes (vhs) undated 5177-014 Box 1 Accession No. 5177-015: Ruth Yarrow WTO Seattle protests collection, 1999 0.18 cubic feet

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

 Ruth Yarrow WTO Seattle protests collection 5177-015 Box 1 Accession No. 5177-016: World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference umbrella, bag, and media guide, 1999 0.52 cubic feet

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

 World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference umbrella, bag, and media guide 5177-016 Box 1 Accession No. 5177-017: "No World Trade Without Workers Rights" WTO protest banner, 1999 0.70 cubic feet

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.

 "No World Trade Without Workers Rights" WTO protest banner 5177-017 Box 1 Accession No. 5177-018: World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Bus Advertisement Sign, 1999 1 item 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.

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

 World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Bus Advertisement Sign 5177-018 Oversize Accession No. 5177-019: World Trade Organization 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference Protest collection, 1999 0.66 cubic feet

Scope and Content: Items from the 1999 World Trade Organization 3rd Ministerial conference including WTO conference and event credentials, WTO logo notepads and United States Trade Representative notepad, one bag, one embroidered WTO Seattle delegate sweatshirt, and one WTO Seattle desk clock.

Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.

Restrictions on Use: To the extent that they own the copyright, the donor has transferred the copyright of the materials to the University of Washington; however, copyright in some items in this collection may be held by their respective creators. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Brian Baum, August 2023

 Brian Baum event and conference credential IDs 30 November- 3 December 1999 WTO 3rd Ministerial Conference ID, Museum of Flight Vendor ID 5177-019 Box 1 1 The United States Trade Representative Washington notepad 1999 5177-019 Box 1 2 Seattle WTO third Ministerial Conference notepad set 30 November- 3 December 3 1999 5177-019 Box 1 3 World Trade Organization Seattle Ministerial Conference plastic bag 30 November- 3 December 3 1999 5177-019 Box 1 4

Scope and Content: Originally containing WTO sweatshirt

 WTO Seattle Ministerial Conference embroidered Sweatshirt 30 November- 3 December 3 1999 5177-019 Box 1 WTO Seattle desk clock gift from the American delegation 1999 5177-019 Box 1