Our World Is Not for Sale: 25 Years of Fighting the WTO

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Our World Is Not for Sale: 25 Years of Fighting the WTO
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David Solnit was a cofounder and organizer with the Direct Action Network 25 years ago and is currently part of the N30history.org Organizers History Project Collective.

'Predictions of increased jobs and prosperity under the WTO system have failed abysmally. Inequalities have soared, leaving hundreds of millions impoverished while billionaires metastasise like cancer,'—Deborah James in Al Jazeera, 5 years ago. The organizers' N30History.org site writes: On November 30, 1999, a public uprising shut down the World Trade Organization and transformed downtown Seattle into a festival of resistance.

rules on intellectual property are some of the most damaging. It is important to note that the entire basis of industrial production in the United States was based on the combination of slave labor and of stolen industrial designs from England. However as the U.S. and E.U.

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