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March on Capitol Hill to protest The Gap - Independent Media Center World Trade Organization Footage
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Footage shows a performance and rally in a park outside Seattle Central Community College featuring puppets, signs, and group singing, followed by a march down Broadway. Steelworkers appear prominently near the front carrying snake puppets reading “Provoked to Strike,” alongside other large puppets, as a van crawls along blasting dance music and speeches. The march pauses at key points before turning back toward Seattle Central. Back at the rally, a woman with a megaphone organizes participants to spell “STOP WTO” with their bodies for an overhead photo, while activists coordinate sound and lead the crowd in a chant/song from atop a van. This item is part of the Independent Media Center World Trade Organization footage collection at the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains two parts: video file and caption tracks.
Directors & creators
Mike McCormick
Subjects
Seattle; World Trade Organization; Battle in Seattle; 1999 Seattle WTO Protests; N30; community organizing, Independent Media Center; Demonstrations--Washington (State)--Seattle; Riots--Washington (State)--Seattle; Labor Archives of Washington; University of Washington Libraries; labor history; worker stories
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