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WTO History Project is a data and interview archive. The project is housed in the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington. WTO History Project includes the activities of those who organized the public demonstrations at the World trade Organization ministerial meetings held in Seattle in 1999.
The unique collection of interviews with protest organizers and participants sheds light on the behind-the-scenes cooperative relationships among social movement organizations involved in the protests. Organizations represented here include the Industrial Workers of the World, People for Fair Trade, the AFL-CIO, and the Sierra Club, to name just a few. WTO History Project contains that materials which were most illustrative of the diversity of the protests and which represent the intense mobilization that made the events so dramatic
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