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Showdown in Seattle, the Glossary

Showdown in Seattle: Five Days That Shook the WTO is a 1999 documentary film, first broadcast in daily half-hour installments, about the November 1999 protests against the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle, Washington.^[1]

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American political films
Anti-globalization movement
Documentary films about globalization
Indymedia

Alter-globalization

Alter-globalization (also known as alter-globo, alternative globalization or alter-mundialization—from the French alter-mondialisation) is a social movement whose proponents support global cooperation and interaction, but oppose what they describe as the negative effects of economic globalization, considering it to often work to the detriment of, or to not adequately promote, human values such as environmental and climate protection, economic justice, labor protection, protection of indigenous cultures, peace and civil liberties. Showdown in Seattle and alter-globalization are anti-globalization movement.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.

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Anti-globalization movement

The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization.

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Battle in Seattle

Battle in Seattle is a 2007 political action-thriller film written and directed by Stuart Townsend, in his directorial debut. Showdown in Seattle and Battle in Seattle are documentary films about American politics, documentary films about globalization and films set in Seattle.

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Civil liberties

Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process.

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Direct action

Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Earth First!

Earth First! is a radical environmental advocacy group that originated in the Southwestern United States.

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Food industry

The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population.

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Food safety

Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.

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Free Speech TV

Free Speech TV (FSTV) is an American progressive news and opinion network.

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Guerrilla filmmaking

Guerrilla filmmaking refers to a form of independent filmmaking characterized by ultra-low micro budgets, skeleton crews, and limited props using whatever resources, locations and equipment is available.

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Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.

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The Independent Media Center, better known as Indymedia, is an open publishing network of activist journalist collectives that report on political and social issues.

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Labor Studies Journal

Read Labor Studies Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in the field of labor studies.

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Lock-on (protest tactic)

A lock-on is a technique used by protesters to make it difficult to remove them from their place of protest.

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Montage (filmmaking)

Montage is a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information.

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Nation state

A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation, a community based on a common identity, are congruent.

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National Lawyers Guild

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is a progressive public interest association of lawyers, law students, paralegals, jailhouse lawyers, law collective members, and other activist legal workers, in the United States.

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Non-governmental organization

A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.

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Paper Tiger Television

Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is a non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City.

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Person of color

The term "person of color" (people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered "white".

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PM Press

PM Press is an independent publisher, founded in 2007, that specializes in radical literature.

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Safety standards

Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities and processes, etc.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Uruguay Round

The Uruguay Round was the 8th round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) conducted within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), spanning from 1986 to 1993 and embracing 123 countries as "contracting parties".

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Vox populi

Vox populi is a Latin phrase (originally Vox populi, vox Dei -The voice of the people is the voice of the God) that literally means "voice of the people".

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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White privilege

White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.

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World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade.

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World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999

The WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 was the third Ministerial-level meeting of the World Trade Organization, convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington, USA, over the course of four days, from Tuesday, 30 November 1999 to Friday, 3 December 1999.

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1999 Seattle WTO protests

The 1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle, were a series of anti-globalization protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, when members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999.

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30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle 2000

30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle 2000 is a documentary film shot during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity and contains interviews with many of the protest leaders. Showdown in Seattle and 30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle 2000 are documentary films about American politics and documentary films about globalization.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showdown_in_Seattle

Also known as Showdown in Seattle: Five Days That Shook the WTO.

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See also

American political films

Anti-globalization movement

Documentary films about globalization

Indymedia

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