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This Is What Democracy Looks Like

2000-10-12
6.8
en 72m
Documentary
This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organization summit being held there. Vowing to oppose, among other faults, the WTO's power to arbitrally overrule nations' environmental, social and labour policies in favour of unbridled corporate greed, protestors from all around came out in force to make their views known and stop the summit. Against them is a brutal police force and a hostile media as well as the stain of a minority of destructively overzealous comrades. Against all odds, the protesters bravely faced fierce opposition to take back the rightful democratic power that the political and corporate elite of the world is determined to deny the little people.

Producer

Jill Friedberg

Producer

Rick Rowley

Editor

Jill Friedberg

Production Design

Micaela McNulty

Production Design

Paul McNulty

Production Design

Joulie Wheeler

seattle, washington protest world trade organisation

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

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