On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Seattle World Trade Organization protests, please join us:
This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) and Battle in Seattle (2007)
Screenings, Drinking and Discussion
With Rick and Jacquie of Big Noise Films
Sunday, November 29, 6pm - 10pm
The Change You Want To See Gallery
http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
84 Havemeyer St @ Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Recommended reading: "Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up" by Naomi Klein for The Nation
The early 90s were a low point for the Americas. NAFTA had passed, the guerrilla had been murdered in the mountains, the unions were being broken. . . history had ended.
But 10 years ago, we opened a tear in the fabric of that political reality. Suddenly it was possible to imagine futures that we had not allowed ourselves to see, and remember pasts we had been trained to forget.
On the 10th Anniversary of the protests that shut down the WTO in Seattle, join your friends from Big Noise Films and Not An Alternative as we reflect back and look forward. Celebrate the anniversary of our victory, hang out and play drinking games while we laugh at Ray Liotta playing Mayor Paul Schell with a bit too much eyeliner, and Andre 3000 cribbing lines from Hop Hopkins. Join Seattle vets and the Copenhagen-bound as we trace the trajectory from then to now, and beyond.
BYOB encouraged, popcorn provided.
