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Given the multiplicity of perspectives surrounding the events in Seattle, it is impossible for us to write a coherent narrative of events that includes them all. Instead, the WTO History Project has compiled resources so that researchers can both read what others have written and investigate the events themselves.
Within this site you will find links to original research, primary sources and secondary sources related to the protests that shook the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999. While some of these products are incomplete at the date of the site launch in Autumn 2001, more complete resources will be posted to the site before long. We welcome suggestions of other material to post.
Use the link on the left to view a timeline of more than 500 events that took place between 18 February 1999, the day the Ministerial location in Seattle was announced, and mid-December 1999, after the WTO had departed but the effects were still felt. Also available is contact information for more than 1400 organizations that signed a letter stating their opposition to the WTO. In the near future these resources will be interactive and searchable, but for now, only the Excel spreadsheets are available for download.
These materials were produced for the benefit of academic researchers. We do ask, however, that the WTO History Project be acknowledged as the data source and that we be notified of any published material.