[LAF] FWD: WOULD THE REAL BATTLE IN SEATTLE PLEASE STAND UP?

[Echo of Freedom]

And this is why i would not like to see the 'Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist' 
film made by Hollywood.


> WILL THE REAL "BATTLE IN SEATTLE" PLEASE STAND UP?
> 
> 
> On September 19, Battle in Seattle, the new fictionalized movie about the
> mass direct action shutdown of and week-long street resistance to the World
> Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999, will open in theaters across the US.
> Some global justice and anti-capitalist activists will intervene on the
> opening day of the movie to urge moviegoers to get the real story and make
> some history themselves.
> 
> 
> Can you help us get out "Real Battle in Seattle" invites (see downloadable
> resources below) to moviegoers on Friday September 19 in San Francisco, San
> Rafael, Seattle, Minneapolis and Washington DC (later on in Sacramento,
> Pittsburgh, Detroit, LA, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, OH, Irvine, Santa
> Barbara, Philadelphia and Plano, Texas, San Diego, San Jose, Denver,
> Charlotte, Cleveland, Portland, Philadelphia, Nashville, Austin, Dallas,
> Houston, Sant Antonio, Madison, Milwaukee and Olympia), and out to our
> communities? Some folks will make guerrilla announcements (masking up
> optional) before or at the end of each screening (Get as many folks as you
> can up front before and/or after screenings and announce the site and tell
> people what they can do to take action in your community). Send us a report!
> 
> 
> For the last two years, since before the Battle in Seattle was filmed, we
> have struggled with how we and the movements we are part of should relate to
> the movie. Some of us have also engaged with and struggled with the film's
> director Stuart Townsend and fought to intervene in and improve the film,
> with a small bit of success.  Out of these discussions we have created the
> Seattle WTO Peoples History Project, an indymedia-style, participatory
> peoples' history website of our movements' own accounts, photos, videos and
> reflections from the Seattle WTO shutdown and resistance.
> 
> 
> We are a small collective of global justice, anti-capitalist, community and
> independent media organizers and activists--most of whom were involved in
> organizing to shut down the WTO and many of whom live or lived in Seattle.
> This website project, at RealBattleInSeattle.org, is an experiment that has
> the potential to popularize the "Battle of Seattle" in our own voices and
> from our movements. This potential can only be realized if friends from the
> movements step up, participate, post their accounts and reflections and get
> the world out widely! We aim to create a culture of memory and peoples'
> history within today's movements to take seriously documenting, popularizing
> and fighting for our histories and our victories.
> 
> 
> At the US Social Forum in Atlanta in the summer of 2007 a couple dozen of us
> participated in a forum to discuss how to relate to the Battle in Seattle
> movie and to our own Seattle WTO history. At the time we wrote up a
> statement signed-on by over 100 Social Forum participants from many parts of
> the movements. In part, it reads:
> 
> 
> "In the fall of 2008, a major motion picture called "Battle in Seattle" will
> come out in cities across the country. The movie is a docu-drama�a fictional
> story based on real events�that features extensive archival footage. It
> alone may shape what most people in the US and around the world think
> happened for decades to come�unless we speak up. We call for social
> movements to take action: to reclaim our history, our stories, and our
> future.
> 
> 
> "The story of popular resistance to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in
> Seattle in 1999 is a story of how people power can change the world. It is a
> dangerous example for the global elite, and a powerful one for movements.
> For eight years, the US corporate media, global elites, and their police
> have been twisting and marginalizing the truth, in order to invent their own
> story of Seattle 1999 and the stories of social movements' resistance and
> victories. These lies and revisions of history have been used in an attempt
> to criminalize and repress our protests, movements, and mobilizations."
> 
> 
> It's time that we in the social movements tell our own stories, reclaim our
> own histories, and publicly fight damaging myths of our movements past and
> present. We must intervene in the public understanding of what happened,
> what is happening, and what it all means. Stories are how we understand the
> world and thus shape the future�they are part of our fight against corporate
> power, empire, war, and social and environmental injustice and for the
> alternatives that will make a better world.
> 
> 
> Let's link the 1999 resistance to the WTO in Seattle and globally with
> building support for today's 2007 resistance that is continuing the fight
> for global justice on many fronts: against war and occupation for
> environmental and climate justice; for workers, immigrants, women, and
> farmers rights, etc. We call for commemorations, public events,
> performances, media, interventions, interruptions, educational events,
> performances, screenings, gatherings, and celebrations."
> 
> 
> Please circulate this email, and check out and participate in the
> RealBattleInSeattle.org.
> 
> 
> EDUCATE! PARTICIPATE! LIBERATE!
> 
> 
> Heather Day, Jeremy Simer, David Solnit, John Dudas, Kate Khatib
> 
> 
> of the Seattle WTO Peoples History Collective
> 
> 
> Contact:
> 
> wtopeopleshistory at gmail.com<http://us.mc344.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wtopeopleshistory@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> ********************
> 
> RESOURCES:
> 
> **********
> 
> 
> Download color or black and white two sided 4x6 inch cards (layed out four
> on an 8 1/2x11 page):
> 
> http://realbattleinseattle.org/node/31
> 
> 
> Schedule of Battle in Seattle Movie screenings (official movie website):
> 
> http://www.battleinseattlemovie.com/tickets/
> 
> 
> Article analysis about the Battle in Seattle Movie:
> 
> http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2850
> 
> 
> Post your story/reflection, photos or video to the Seattle WTO Peoples
> History site:
> 
> http://realbattleinseattle.org/node/add/reflections
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> :: anarchisms research group ::
> The Anarchisms Research Group is dedicated to the facilitation of research into anarchisms and by anarchists, based in the City University of New York and the greater global community. 
> 
> wiki-in-process >> http://www.anarchisms.org/wiki
> subscribe >> anarchisms-subscribe at lists.riseup.net
> unsubscribe >> anarchisms-unsubscribe at lists.riseup.net
> post >> anarchisms at lists.riseup.net
> 
> subscription settings :: http://lists.riseup.net/www/suboptions/anarchisms
> password reminder :: http://lists.riseup.net/www/remindpasswd
> listserv archives :: http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/anarchisms
> 
> List Editors: Jess and Yvonne
> list editors >> editors at anarchisms.org