Dw Gibson

Broschiertes Buch

One Week to Change the World

An Oral History of the 1999 Wto Protests

Beschreibung

"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"--

Autor

DW Gibson is most recently the author of 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall . His previous books include the award-winning The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century 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 cohosting the podcast There Goes the Neighborhood, guest hosting various news programs for WNYC, and reading original essays for Live From Here, as well as All Things Considered. Gibson serves as director of Art Omi: Writers in Ghent, New York, and he cofounded Sangam House, a writers’ residency in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781668033562
• ISBN-10: 1668033569
• Artikelnr.: 69243165