Katika KühnreichDec 1, 2024

Gosh, its 25 years that the #Seattle #Protests , the #BattleofSeattle happened…

The birth of a new wave of a #global #movement called #antiglobalisation

That went on in #Prague 2000 until the meetings had to move to remote places to be guarded by armies from the people they decide for…

It hit me like a rock that it is already a quarter decade. And made me write a short article: https://katika-kuehnreich.com/en/2024/12/01/25-years-ago-lessons-from-the-battle-of-seattle/

@CrimethInc did a post on it

#protest #demonstration #policebrutality #neoliberalism

25 Years ago – Lessons from the Battle of Seattle – Katika Kuehnreich

Joseph Lim Jun 12, 2024
Still haunted by #WashingtonConsensus
"since the 2008 GFC many countries in e #GlobalNorth hv . declin'g growth, rampant #inequality, failing institutions, fractured political consensus, #corruption, mass protests & #antiglobalisation sentiment.. Joe Stiglitz & D Rodrik had pronounced e Washington Consensus dead.. Is there a way to reinvent or restructure e global #economy now tt it has become a source of widespread dissatisfaction? & what even is e goal of #development?"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2808815/still-haunted-by-washington-consensus
Still haunted by Washington Consensus

In 1989, the British economist John Williamson christened what was to become the defining intellectual export of the era of globalisation: the Washington Consensus. Initially a reference to the policies adopted to tackle macroeconomic turmoil in Latin America, the term quickly morphed into a canonical

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