Join the Washington Fair Trade Coalition and community allies to mark the 20th Anniversary of the WTO Protests! We will start off the day with a rally at Occidental Park from 10:00-12:00pm, which will feature a number of speakers that will discuss where we have been in trade and where we are now, and where we want to be in 20 years.
Later in the day, at 3:00pm, the event will continue at Seattle Town Hall where there will be nine trade justice workshops that will cover how trade affects and intersect with a number of key issues facing our global community today.
The workshops will cover how trade organizing has impacted:
Environment, Labor, Public Health, Immigration, Indigenous Sovereignty and Extractive Industries, People Powered Movements since 1999, Food Sovereignty, Tech and Data, and Militarism.
We will end the event at 7:30pm with our keynote speaker Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, public policy analyst, and a professor at Columbia University. Stiglitz is known in trade organizing circles for his critical view of the management of globalization, laissez-faire economics and international institutions such as the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.
The keynote will also include a brief Action Orientation with Lori Wallach, the director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. This orientation will cover the trajectory of the trade movement since 1999.
Price: Admission to the rally at Occidental Park and the Trade Justice Workshops at Seattle Town Hall are both FREE! However, we encourage donations to support the Washington Fair Trade Coalition Education Fund and its crucial work.
Admission to the Keynote event is $20. However, a limited number of FREE student tickets are available first-come-first-serve. If you are interested in a scholarship, please contact Hillary at hillary@washingtonfairtrade.org for more information.
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Event Page (Where to buy tickets): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wto20-tickets-62520613839
Who is sponsoring the event: Washington Fair Trade Coalition
