Average Rating: 5
This short, reasonably priced and well produced book deals with the lies and misrepresentations of the Battle of Seattle in 1999 when the World Trade Organisation was shut down by anti/alter globalisation activists with anarchists taking a leading role. The book is made up of three essays, each dealing with a different aspect of the portrayal of the monumental event. The first is by David Solnit and illustrates the attempts to influence the movie made about the 1999 events. The second is written by Rebecca Solnit and outlines the attempts to challenge the made up stories about violence published in the New York Times and the third, by Chris Dixon, is an outline of the event that serves to challenge the inaccurate views discussed previously. Finally the book includes reprints of sections of the Direct Action Network paper. As such this is a small book that does a lot and is well worth the price as it cuts through vast amounts of the crap that are often spouted about the Battle of Seattle and reclaims a key event in the history of the western anti globalisation movement from mass media lies.
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