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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle, a raucous action by 50,000 protesters who descended on the city in the fall of 1999. Their aim? Shutting down a conference of top decision makers at the World Trade Organization. When this coalition of activists succeeded in stopping the WTO's opening ceremonies, the “Battle of Seattle” became an inflection point in a growing struggle between advocates for free trade – and groups fighting for the rights of labor, farmers, the environment and more. Comprising over 100 interviews, author DW Gibson's book, One Week to Change the World, tells a new oral history of the protest through the eyes of people who participated.  This segment originally aired on Soundside in June.  Guests: DW Gibson, journalist and author of One Week to Change the World. Related Links:  One Week to Change the World | Book by DW Gibson | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundsidenotes Soundside is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Baldemar Velasquez, President of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the history of organizing agricultural workers in America and why it's been more difficult than any other industry. He also talked about the law that goes into effect today, Aug. 29, that will help farm workers to organize. DW Gibson, author of One Week to Change the World, joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss his book about Seattle's 1999 World Trade Organization protests and the impact unions had on the protests.

For this "Summer Friday" we've put together some of our favorite conversations this year:Ali Velshi, MSNBC host and chief correspondent and the author of Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy (Macmillan, 2024), shares the story of his grandfather's work with Gandhi and Mandela and how their influence continues in his generation.Jack Turban, M.D., director of the Gender Psychiatry Program and assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and the author of Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity (Atria, 2024), talks about the science, the medicine and the politics surrounding gender identity in children and teens.DW Gibson, journalist and the author of One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests (Simon & Schuster, 2024), tells the story of the protests against globalization and their impact on subsequent activism, including today's climate protests.Every year, 50 teenage girls representing each state in America descend on Alabama to compete for large scholarship checks in the Distinguished Young Women program. Shima Oliaee, host and creator of "The Competition," creator of Pink Card, co-creator of Dolly Parton's America and founder of Shirazad Productions, discusses her new podcast, "The Competition", which follows these young women on their two-week journey and offers a peak into what it's like to be a teenage girl in America today. These interviews were polished up and edited for time, the original versions are available here:A Family Heritage of Social Justice (May 17, 2024)Kids & Gender Identity (Jun 12, 2024)Kids & Gender Identity, Part Two (Jun 24, 2024)The Protests that Set the Stage (Jun 21, 2024)What "The Competition" Says About Teenage Girlhood (May 3, 2024)

The Battle of Seattle, the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization, marked a major turning point not just for an anti-globalization movement, but for the way we would come to see the world between that protest and the rise of the populist right in 2015. The direct line between those protests and the election of Donald Trump 16 years later is indelible. It's a story full of enduring lessons about people and power in an age of ascendant corporate influence. Talking to me in this podcast is DW Gibson, an accomplished oral historian whose new book One Week to Change the World draws on over 100 original interviews with organizers, officials, observers, and more to bring those momentous days to vivid life.

DW Gibson, journalist and the author of One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests (Simon & Schuster, 2024), tells the story of the protests against globalization and their impact on subsequent activism, including today's climate protests.

This week, Anthony talks with award-winning author DW Gibson about his new book, One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests. With the 25th anniversary approaching, DW discusses the angst that marked the end of the millennium, why the lessons learnt are even more applicable in today's society, and reveals the many missing pieces the media left out... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The 1999 WTO protests were a landmark event in history, but one that has been largely forgotten. What lessons were learned from this event? On this episode, DW Gibson discussed his book, One Week to Change the World.

Today I sit down with author DW Gibson and discuss his latest book: One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests.One week in late 1999, more than 50,000 people converged on Seattle. Their goal: to shut down the World Trade Organization conference and send a message that working-class people would not quietly accept the runaway economic globalization that threatened their livelihoods. Though their mission succeeded, it was not without blowback. Violent confrontations between police and protestors resulted in hundreds of arrests and millions of dollars in property damage. But the images of tear gas and smashed windows that flashed across TVs and newspapers were not an accurate representation of what actually happened that week.In the oral history One Week to Change the World, award-winning journalist DW Gibson pieces together a complex and compelling account of what really went down in Seattle, immersing you in the angst that defined the end of a millennium, complete with fight clubs and Y2K doomsday scenarios. In more than 100 original interviews with protestors, police, politicians, anarchists, artists, activists, union members, and many others, Gibson reconstructs the events in gripping detail; documents its antecedents and aftermath; and shows how so many of its themes remain just as pressing today, including the vitalness and difficulty of grassroots activism, the aspirations and limitations of globalization, the militarization of policing, the sensationalism of the media, and the undeniable power of the people.Timed to the 25th anniversary of the protests, this book is a page-turning drama, an essential history, and a practical handbook for how to make one's voice heard.Buy The BookWebsiteSupport the Show

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle, a raucous action by 50,000 protesters who descended on the city in the fall of 1999. Their aim? shutting down a conference of top decision makers at the World Trade Organization. When this coalition of activists succeeded in stopping the WTO's opening ceremonies, the “Battle of Seattle” became an inflection point in a growing struggle between advocates for free trade and groups fighting for the rights of labor, farmers, the environment and more. Comprising over 100 interviews, author DW Gibson's new book, “One Week to Change the World,” tells a new oral history of the protest through the eyes of people who participated.  Guests: DW Gibson, journalist based in New York and author of "One Week to Change the World." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Nineties are back in fashion. Last week on KEEN ON, Terry Anderson explained why the Nineties still matter. Next week, we are featuring a conversation with John Ganz, the author of When the Calock Broke, his interpretation of how America “cracked up” in the early Nineties. Today we feature a conversation with D.W. Gibson, author of the oral history of Seattle's World Trade Organization protests, One Week to Change the World. As Gibson explains, the June 1999 WTO protests bridge the end of the 20th with the beginning of the 21st century. On the one hand, they are a fitting conclusion to what now appears to be the illusion of Nineties prosperity and stability, on the other, the Seattle protests are an early example of a populist response to economic globalization which climaxed in the Occupy movement a decade later. DW Gibson is most recently the author of One Week To Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests. His previous books include the awarding-winning The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, and Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today's Changing Economy. He shared a National Magazine Award for his work on “This is the Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn” for New York magazine. His work has also appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Gibson's radio work includes co-hosting the podcast There Goes the Neighborhood, guest hosting various news programs for WNYC, and reading original essays for Live From Here as well as NPR's All Things Considered. His documentary film, Not Working, a companion to the book, is available through Films Media Group. His directorial debut, Pants Down, premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New York. Gibson serves as director of Art Omi: Writers in Ghent, New York, and he co-founded Sangam House, a writers' residency in India, along with Arshia Sattar.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

DW Gibson is an American journalist, author, radio host, and cultural critic. He is also the author of the 2020 book, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, about the border wall that Former President Trump was building, and its impact on the lives of local residents. DW joins host Loren Steffy to discuss updates on the border wall and other movements that are gaining traction in the immigration policy reform space.

We look at a 14-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border. What does a border mean in an interconnected world? DW Gibson, Nicole Ramos, Serge Dedina and Stan Rodriguez join Anthony Brooks.

In 2017, when the Department of Homeland Security announced an open call for prototypes for Trump's border wall, DW Gibson, an award-winning journalist and Southern California native, began visiting the construction site and watching as the samples were erected. Gibson spent those two years closely observing the work and interviewing local residents to understand how it was impacting them. In 14 MILES: Building the Border Wall (Simon & Schuster; hardcover; 7/7/2020), Gibson takes us to the ecosystem surrounding the 14 completed miles of Trump's border wall in San Diego County - from a park that's home to anti-immigrant rallies to one that hosts bilingual church services, from a Methodist church housing more than 300 refugees to a small town that forms citizen border-watch groups, from the courts hearing asylum cases to the red-carpeted villa where a real estate developer boasts about his Carrera marble fountain and giant American flag - and shows what life is like for many living in the shadow of this "surreal political project" In the book, we meet: -April McKee, a border patrol agent leading a recruiting program called Explorers that trains local teenagers to work as agents. -Manuel Rodriguez, the chief of police in a mid-size San Diego County town, who himself is an immigrant from the border town of Nogales, Mexico. He worries about how local law enforcement is perceived and the ways in which in which it impacts his department's effectiveness. -Roque De La Fuente, an eccentric millionaire developer who uses the construction as a promotional opportunity. -Aurelia Avila, a young Mexican-American woman who lives with her daughter and brother in a makeshift shanty just south of the border. She cannot cross back into the US because she lacks the documentation she needs to prove her citizenship. Aurelia and her family live closer to the prototypes than anyone else and have become inured to the hammering and drilling sounds. -Bob Maupin, a resident of a rural town, population 315, who loves the idea of a wall and for years has led self-styled vigilante groups to catch border crossers-sometimes with government support. He has heard automatic weapon fire from his property and has been shot at. -Civile Ephedouard, a Haitian refugee who spent two years migrating through Central America to the United States and anxiously awaits the results of his asylum case. -Serge Dedina, who grew up surfing the slews at Imperial Beach, a town at the southwestern tip of the country that contends with incredible water pollution from nearby American factories in Tijuana. Dedina is now mayor and has been connecting with border patrol and military families to get clean-up work done. He believes border security includes improving air and water quality and that "you don't make borders more secure by dividing people." While most Americans think of the border as a dangerous place, Dedina insists otherwise: "It's actually a force of attraction that pulls people together. There is a functioning political, economic, ecological, and cultural ecosystem here." Through the varied perspectives of the people he interviewed, Gibson shows how complex and dynamic the idea of a border actually is, raising questions about safety, community, capitalism and politics - both local and national. Fascinating, propulsive, and incredibly timely, 14 MILES is an important, absorbing work that explains not only how the wall has reshaped our landscape and countless lives but also how its shadow looms over our very identity as a nation.

In 2017, when the Department of Homeland Security announced an open call for prototypes for Trump's border wall, DW Gibson, an award-winning journalist and Southern California native, began visiting the construction site and watching as the samples were erected. Gibson spent those two years closely observing the work and interviewing local residents to understand how it was impacting them. In 14 MILES: Building the Border Wall (Simon & Schuster; hardcover; 7/7/2020), Gibson takes us to the ecosystem surrounding the 14 completed miles of Trump's border wall in San Diego County - from a park that's home to anti-immigrant rallies to one that hosts bilingual church services, from a Methodist church housing more than 300 refugees to a small town that forms citizen border-watch groups, from the courts hearing asylum cases to the red-carpeted villa where a real estate developer boasts about his Carrera marble fountain and giant American flag - and shows what life is like for many living in the shadow of this "surreal political project" In the book, we meet: -April McKee, a border patrol agent leading a recruiting program called Explorers that trains local teenagers to work as agents. -Manuel Rodriguez, the chief of police in a mid-size San Diego County town, who himself is an immigrant from the border town of Nogales, Mexico. He worries about how local law enforcement is perceived and the ways in which in which it impacts his department's effectiveness. -Roque De La Fuente, an eccentric millionaire developer who uses the construction as a promotional opportunity. -Aurelia Avila, a young Mexican-American woman who lives with her daughter and brother in a makeshift shanty just south of the border. She cannot cross back into the US because she lacks the documentation she needs to prove her citizenship. Aurelia and her family live closer to the prototypes than anyone else and have become inured to the hammering and drilling sounds. -Bob Maupin, a resident of a rural town, population 315, who loves the idea of a wall and for years has led self-styled vigilante groups to catch border crossers-sometimes with government support. He has heard automatic weapon fire from his property and has been shot at. -Civile Ephedouard, a Haitian refugee who spent two years migrating through Central America to the United States and anxiously awaits the results of his asylum case. -Serge Dedina, who grew up surfing the slews at Imperial Beach, a town at the southwestern tip of the country that contends with incredible water pollution from nearby American factories in Tijuana. Dedina is now mayor and has been connecting with border patrol and military families to get clean-up work done. He believes border security includes improving air and water quality and that "you don't make borders more secure by dividing people." While most Americans think of the border as a dangerous place, Dedina insists otherwise: "It's actually a force of attraction that pulls people together. There is a functioning political, economic, ecological, and cultural ecosystem here." Through the varied perspectives of the people he interviewed, Gibson shows how complex and dynamic the idea of a border actually is, raising questions about safety, community, capitalism and politics - both local and national. Fascinating, propulsive, and incredibly timely, 14 MILES is an important, absorbing work that explains not only how the wall has reshaped our landscape and countless lives but also how its shadow looms over our very identity as a nation.

How much of Trump's border wall has been built? Will it stop undocumented migration? What do people living in the border region think about it? Alex Aleinikoff and Deb Amos talk with Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff and DW Gibson, author of the recently published 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall.

We look at a 14-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border. What does a border mean in an interconnected world? DW Gibson, Nicole Ramos, Serge Dedina and Stan Rodriguez join Anthony Brooks.

Journalist DW Gibson discusses his new book, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, which looks at the communities surrounding the 14 completed miles of the wall in San Diego County and what life is like for many living in the shadow of the wall.   This segment is guest-hosted by Matt Katz.

Hollywood Handbook’s best co-host, Hayes Davenport, happened to be in New York recently on a trip back from Italy and stopped by the kitchen. First of all, I’m SORRY about the scrappy audio quality. I explain what happened in the intro. ANYWAYS, this was a really fun and informative episode. Hayes and I talked about the origins of Hollywood Handbook and why certain guests have trouble on it, his new local politics show the LA Podcast with Scott Frazier, writing for Danny McBride and Jody Hill, the impossibility of ethical consumption under late capitalism, being a YIMBY vs a NIMBY vs a PHIMBY, whether or not dunking on libs by rose emoji Twitter accounts is an effective route to social revolution, problematic policing of the homeless population in Los Angeles, and being a realist about socioeconomic compromise. The outro music is “Ouroboros” by the Mars Volta. Scope below for links to the books that Hayes recommended on the episode. “Down, Out, and Under Arrest” by Forrest Stuart: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo23530208.html “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america/ “The Edge Becomes the Center” by DW Gibson: https://www.dwgibson.net/book/the-edge-becomes-the-center/

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