— Irish Nobel Prize laureate Seamus Heaney, from the poem “The Cure.” The miraculous and magical rise of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) tidal wave has suspended us in a threshold between a no-longer and ...

In late 1999, mass protests of the World Trade Organization meetings on global trade became a notorious battle in Seattle, with lasting repercussions. The city swelled with an estimated 60,000 ...

After landing in the national consciousness with grunge and brief flashes of success with the Mariners and Sonics, Seattle closed out the '90s with the infamous World Trade Organization (WTO) riots, ...

While the best theater of 1999 may have been happening on the streets during the WTO protests, it was only slightly more dramatic than a whole series of upsets in the performing arts community during ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Seattle: Since the 1950s, geological reports on the hill that buckled during the weekend in ...

No WTO Combo’s Live from the Battle in Seattle was a strange record, made up of a strange bunch of songs, played by a strange combination of people. The group was put together for the sole purpose of ...

Atlanta had “Gone With the Wind.” New York City got “King Kong,” more than once. And now our Emerald City has “Battle in Seattle.” At least it felt that momentous at the Seattle International Film ...

Guest: DW Gibson is the author of several books including The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, Not Working: ...

I have a wooden bullet that I sometimes show to people. It’s about the size of a jumbo marshmallow. During the WTO protests, a police officer shot it at me. It bounced off the wall and landed at my ...

There have been endless comparisons between this year’s Democratic National Convention and the one held in Chicago in 1968 — and not just because one of the primary 2008 protest groups is called ...

Similar descriptions of Seattle protests have been used for more than 100 years, stretching from large labor movements before World War I to the massive 1999 WTO trade protests. Large protests in ...

After landing in the national consciousness with grunge and brief flashes of success with the Mariners and Sonics, Seattle closed out the '90s with the infamous World Trade Organization (WTO) riots, ...