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Seattle in Coalition - Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1999 (Hardcover)
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Seattle in Coalition - Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1999 (Hardcover)
Series: Justice, Power and Politics
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In the fall of 1999, the World Trade Organization (WTO) prepared to
hold its biennial Ministerial Conference in Seattle. The event
culminated in five days of chaotic political protest that would
later be known as the Battle in Seattle. The convergence
represented the pinnacle of decades of organizing among workers of
color in the Pacific Northwest, yet the images and memory of what
happened centered around assertive black bloc protest tactics
deployed by a largely white core of activists whose message and
goals were painted by media coverage as disorganized and
incoherent. This insightful history takes readers beyond the Battle
in Seattle and offers a wider view of the organizing campaigns that
marked the last half of the twentieth century. Narrating the rise
of multiracial coalition building in the Pacific Northwest from the
1970s to the 1990s, Diana K. Johnson shows how activists from
Seattle's Black, Indigenous, Chicano, and Asian American
communities traversed racial, regional, and national boundaries to
counter racism, economic inequality, and perceptions of
invisibility. In a city where more than eighty-five percent of the
residents were white, they linked far-flung and historically
segregated neighborhoods while also crafting urban-rural,
multiregional, and transnational links to other populations of
color. The activists at the center of this book challenged economic
and racial inequality, the globalization of capitalism, and the
white dominance of Seattle itself long before the WTO protest.
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