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"Resist the WTO" poster, 1999

The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2000.12.REF.8
Date:1999
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"World Trade Organization: What Are They Trading Away?" poster, 1999

The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2000.12.REF.9
Date:1999
Image of Men embracing at AIDS vigil at Seattle Central Community College, May 29, 1988
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Men embracing at AIDS vigil at Seattle Central Community College, May 29, 1988

In this image four friends comfort each other at the Vigil for AIDS held at Seattle Central Community College. Behind them is a candle-lit shrine commemorating people who have died of AIDS. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.06
Date:1988
Image of Two men embracing at AIDS vigil at Seattle Central Community College, May 29, 1988
Photograph

Two men embracing at AIDS vigil at Seattle Central Community College, May 29, 1988

In this image, two friends comfort each other at the Vigil for AIDS held on the campus of Seattle Central Community College. Next to them is a candle-lit shrine commemorating people who have died of AIDS. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.07
Date:1988
Image of Man working on quilt square during AIDS vigil at Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, May 29, 1988
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Man working on quilt square during AIDS vigil at Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, May 29, 1988

In this image, Dale Inman of Seattle works on a quilt square in honor a friend who died of AIDS, at the AIDS Vigil at Seattle Central Community College. The square will become part of the NAMES project AIDS Memorial quilt. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.08
Date:1988
Image of Protest against forced AIDS testing, Seattle, June 21, 1988
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Protest against forced AIDS testing, Seattle, June 21, 1988

In June 1988, about two dozen people protested forced AIDS testing outside the King County Courthouse. This image shows members of the Stonewall Committee for Lesbian/Gay Rights at that event, picketing in protest of a court order requiring testing of Steven Farmer, a convicted sex offender, against his will. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.09
Date:1988
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Covered sculpture in downtown Seattle on "Day Without Art," December 1, 1989

"Day Without Art," a project of the arts organization Visual AIDS, launched on December 1, 1989 as "a day of action and mourning" in which thousands of arts institutions and organizations around the world joined together to demonstrate the power of art to raise awareness of the ongoing AIDS pandemic. In this image Luis Clark, groundskeeper for the 1001 Building…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.11
Date:1989
Image of AIDS hospice advocates at ACT UP demonstration, Seattle, March 20, 1990
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AIDS hospice advocates at ACT UP demonstration, Seattle, March 20, 1990

In this image AIDS hospice advocates demonstrate their support of a planned project for an AIDS hospice at East Madison Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. The event was staged by the direct action advocacy group ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in front of the old SeaFirst building on Fourth Avenue, where Roger Leeds, the lawyer for the…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.13
Date:1990
Image of Demonstrators lying on ground at ACT-UP demonstration, Seattle, June 26, 1990
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Demonstrators lying on ground at ACT-UP demonstration, Seattle, June 26, 1990

In this image a demonstration is being staged by the direct action advocacy group ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) at the intersection of E Roy Street and Broadway E. Businesses in image: Whitney's Hallmark; Siam on Broadway Thai CuisineCaption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.14
Date:1990
Image of Police and picketers at ACT-UP demonstration, Seattle, May 21, 1990
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Police and picketers at ACT-UP demonstration, Seattle, May 21, 1990

In this image, demonstrators with the direct action advocacy group ACT-UP/Seattle (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) rally over the lack of federally funded research on treatments for HIV. They are picketing in front of a Seattle Police van brought to the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit (ACTU) at 11th Avenue and Cherry Street to carry off demonstrators occupying the building. One…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.15
Date:1990
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