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GRITtv: Biking To Work With Seattle Mayor McGinn
The elections at the end of 2009 were a mixed bag for progressives, but Seattle's new mayor, Mike McGinn, is interested in bringing progressive change to his city--and leading by example. In this video from Street Films, we take a bike ride to work with Mayor McGinn.
Email this pageGRITtv: Whatever Happened to the WTO?
The WTO may not have expanded in 1999, but it hasn't gone away, either. Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, fills us in on the World Trade Organization, ten years after the huge progressive victory in Seattle in 1999. Deregulation and fossil fuels remain the name of the game, even as the Obama administration promises change at home.
GRITtv: David Solnit: Looking Forward to Copenhagen
"If we organize and assert our power, we can change things," says David Solnit, co-author with his sister, Rebecca, of "The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle" and organizer with Mobilization for Climate Justice. He is working on the next round of the global justice movement: the Copenhagen climate talks. He joins us from San Francisco to fill us in on where the movement is going now, and to connect the dots between the antiwar, economic justice, worker's rights movements and more.
