Arrive early at 6pm to explore Teamsters, Turtles, and Beyond: The Legacy of the WTO Seattle Protests, with a special exhibit tour led by James Gregory, exhibit curator and professor of history at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Join us for an evening of reflection and discussion as Jill Freidberg, co-founder of the Independent Media Center, participant in the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, and filmmaker delivers a keynote on the role IndyMedia played in warning against the dangers of media consolidation and shaping citizen journalism as we know it today.
This event celebrates the launch of the WTO Footage Digitization Project, a groundbreaking collection featuring hundreds of hours of rarely seen footage from the protests, collected by activists on the ground. The footage is part of a new online resource that also includes digitized archival materials and the WTO History Project, making the history of the protests accessible to scholars, students, and the public.
A panel discussion will follow Jill’s keynote, exploring the digitization process and how the footage was used in MOHAI’s exhibit. Enjoy complimentary food and connect with experts, activists, and community members as we honor this significant chapter in history.
This program is co-produced by the Labor Archives of Washington (UW Libraries), MOHAI and MIPoPS.
ASL Interpretation and CART captioning are available during the program. In addition, a limited number of Assistive Listening Devices are available upon request. For more accessibility support, email programs@mohai.org two weeks before the program.
