-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave Non-Corporate Real News From the Independent Media Center in Seattle IMC Daily Digest: The Seattle Lockdown December 1, 1999 --------------------------------------- Anti-WTO protestors have shut Seattle down. While a 'state of emergency' clamps down on the city for the second night, the people's newsroom at the Independent Media Center is buzzing. Over 400 IMC media producers are now collaborating to post, uplink, and print their stories of protest, analysis, outrage, and hope. Armed with cell phones, laptop computers, tape recorders, cameras, and a shoestring budget, media activists are using the Centerís website at www.indymedia.org to broadcast their stories. Video interviews and street footage are edited and uplinked to satellite, and articles are being published in The Blind Spot daily. While protests continue and brutal police tactics remain unchecked, the IMC continues to receive live reports from its video, print, audio, and photo teams despite a 7 pm curfew. In this, the first of the Independent Media Centerís daily digests, you can see, hear or read stories being produced by the IMC collective: Photo: Confrontation at 4th and Pike, 3:30pm PST by gazette webcam 4:54pm Tue Nov 30 '99 http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=146 Article: Turtles and Teamsters Unite Against Patent on Life by Sue Ellen White 7:22pm Wed Dec 1 '99 Patents on life itself already exist and a teach-in today featuring Ralph Nader aimed to mobilize farmers, environmentalists, labor, scientists, and citizens against the WTO's agreements on intellectual property. http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=267 Article: Arrested Refuse to Comply with Booking by Ben Grad 11:48pm Wed Dec 1 '99 More than 450 arrested, and a seriously significant majority is both refusing to give their info, they won't get off the buses. http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=284 Audio: Cell Phone Interview with Arrestees by Asha Confer 7:27pm Wed Dec 1 '99 Hear a cell phone conversation with arrestees waiting to be processed at Sandpoint Naval Base. http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=268 Photo: Police Gas Protesters by the phantom 11:26pm Wed Dec 1 '99 Protesters sit in an intersection in downtown Seattle, some using wet handkerchiefs to shield their faces. http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=283 Article: Police Aggression Aimed at Nonviolent Protesters by Janet Berkow 11:07pm Wed Dec 1 '99 At 6th and Union early Tuesday morning, a group of more than 50 protesters sat at the intersection, intending to block traffic. The police, heavily armed and in riot gear, were grimly bound to make them move. http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=281 Article: Sub-Lethal Weapons Hit the Streets by Steven Bodzin 10:56pm Tue Nov 30 '99 As protesters blocked the streets, the police responded with overwhelming force, using the latest sub-lethal weapons. http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=170 Photo: When They Kick Down Your Front DoorÖ. by Greg Ruggiero 7:06pm Mon Nov 29 '99 Aftershoot of French Farmers' Demo, Monday afternoon, Nov. 29 http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=59 Article: Independent Media Center Under Siege! by David Murphy and David Potter 9:08pm Tue Nov 30 '99 Police attack reporters as they try to enter the Independent Media Center. http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=158 Audio: Dr.Vendana Shiva Addresses the Diverse Women for Diversity by Sue Supriano 3:27am Tue Nov 30 '99 On Monday, November 29, 1999, Dr. Vendana Shiva, co-founder of Diverse Women for Diversity, Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology addressed the Celebration of Our Planet's Fabulous Diversity of Food and Agriculture. She is introduced by Anuradha Mittal, Program Director of Food First (USA) Approximatley 5 minutes. http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=87 Audio: Building Trades and the WTO by Peter Miller, WEFT 90.1 FM Champaign, IL 12:52pm Mon Nov 29 '99 Interview with Fred Hirsch of Plumbers Local 393 in silicon valley. Hirsch explains why working people whose jobs don't depend directly on trade should be concerned about the WTO. (4 mins 11 secs). http://216.173.206.96/imc/display.php3?article_id=42 The Independent Media Center is a grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as a tool for promoting social and economic justice. It is our goal to further the self-determination of people under-represented in media production and content, and to illuminate and analyze local and global issues that impact ecosystems, communities and individuals. 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