The billionaires know that fossil fuels and power-intensive AI are rendering the earth uninhabitable. That's what their bunkers are for.
But even more than bunkers, they're investing in surveillance and repression.
They're not afraid of the end of the world.
They're afraid we'll try to save it.
25 years ago today, on April 16, 2000, tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC to take action against the meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Building on the mobilization that shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle the previous November, they sought to demonstrate the virtues of global solidarity as an alternative to neoliberal capitalist globalization.
This oral history captures the events and the spirit of the times in vivid detail.
"The black bloc came at that moment when blood was streaming down people’s faces and essentially pushed the police out of our intersection. They were just this wall of bodies that pushed them out and saved our intersection from any further police abuse. I’ve forever been grateful to that black bloc for hearing on the walkie talkies that we needed help and coming so powerfully to our aid."
"As participants in the black bloc, the thinking was: we’re not going to get voluntarily arrested; we’re not going to sit in the street while they put pepper spray in our eyes. We are going to fight back against police abuse."
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