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The 1999 Protest That Kicked Off Today's Changing World Order
['Carlo Versano', 'Director', 'Politics']
Newsweek
It was December 1999, in the waning days of the 20th century, when tens of thousands of Americans from all walks of life descended on downtown Seattle to protest the five-year-old World Trade Organization holding its first summit on U.S. soil.
If that sounds a bit like the talking points of a MAGA talk show or even President Trump itself...it is.
I was a freshman in high school in 1999, but I still remember how the story was covered in the national media.
When Newsweek asked me to interview the filmmakers behind a new independent documentary about the Seattle WTO meeting, I was non-committal at first.
What did a well-covered demonstration against globalization from the 1990s have to do with the world we live in today?