A.6.b.i. Demonstrating at Global Summits

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The demonstrations at summits of international economic and financial bodies, which began at the WTO Seattle summit in December 1999, involved various forms of nonviolent direct action (and more violent forms promoted primarily by the Black Bloc anarchists), and quite often violent retaliation against protesters by the police. Police violence was particularly extreme at Genoa in 2003 where almost 100 were injured in a police raid. Summits began to avoid confrontation with protesters by choosing remote venues and requiring extensive security measures. When the G.8 went to a small village in Perth in July 2005, campaigners converged instead on Edinburgh. Striking forms of nonviolent protest at summits included Korean farmers jumping into the harbour at Hong Kong during the December 2005 WTO summit and two Greenpeace dinghies attempting to deliver a petition to G8 leaders meeting in June 2007 at Heligendamm from the Baltic sea.

Della Porta, Donatella; Andretta, Massimiliano; Mosca, Lorenzo; Reiter, Herbert Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest Networks, Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota Press, 2006 , pp. 338

An in depth look at the Genoa G.8 summit in 2001, and European Social Forum, from protesters’ point of view, based on survey of 800 activists at Genoa and 2,400 participants in 2002 Florence European Social Forum.
Tickle, Andrew; Welsh, Ian; Donson, Fiona; Chesters, Graeme Rebels with a Cause: Folk Devils without a Panic: Press Jingoism and Policing Tactics and Anticapitalist Protest London and Prague, 2004 pp. smaller than 0

Drainville, Andre Quebec City 2001 and the Making of Transnational Subjects, In Leo Panitch, Colin Leys, A World of Contradictions: Socialist Register 2002, London, Merlin Press, 2001 , pp. 15-42

Epstein, Barbara Not your Parents’ Protest, Vol. 47, issue (spring), , , pp. 8-11

On Seattle.
Graeber, David Direct Action: An Ethnography, Edinburgh and Oakland CA, A.K. Press, 2009 , pp. 592

Participant observation study of Global Justice Movement, centred on case study of Summit of the Americas in Quebec City 2001.
Hilary, John Anti-Capitalism Alive and Well, issue Dec/Jan, , , pp. 14-15

On 10th anniversary of closing down WTO summit at Seattle, author celebrates the setbacks of the WTO since. He notes broadening of movement, illustrated by role of migrant workers and women’s rights groups from across Asia leading protests at WTO 2005 Hong Kong summit.
Morse, David Beyond the Myths of Seattle, Vol. 48, issue summer, , , pp. 39-43

Neale, Jonathan You Are G 8. We Are 6 Billion: The Truth Behind the Genoa Protests, London, Vision Paperbacks, , pp. 275

Starr, Amory; Fernandez, Luis; Scholl, Christian Shutting Down the Streets, New York, New York University Press, 2011 , pp. 224

The authors, who took part in protests at summits, from the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle to the 2007 G.8. protests in Heiligendamm (Germany), analyze direct action at 20 summits and how government social control (including a Berlin-type wall at Heiligendamm) limits space for dissent.

Websites recommended

Anti-Capitalism Alive and Well , 2010

On 10th anniversary of closing down WTO summit at Seattle, author celebrates the setbacks of the WTO since. He notes broadening of movement, illustrated by role of migrant workers and women’s rights groups from across Asia leading protests at WTO 2005 Hong Kong summit.
Beyond the Myths of Seattle , 2001
Direct Action: An Ethnography Edinburgh and Oakland CA A.K. Press, 2009

Participant observation study of Global Justice Movement, centred on case study of Summit of the Americas in Quebec City 2001.
Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest Networks Minneapolis MN University of Minnesota Press, 2006

An in depth look at the Genoa G.8 summit in 2001, and European Social Forum, from protesters’ point of view, based on survey of 800 activists at Genoa and 2,400 participants in 2002 Florence European Social Forum.
Not your Parents’ Protest , 2000

On Seattle.
Quebec City 2001 and the Making of Transnational Subjects London Merlin Press, 2001
Rebels with a Cause: Folk Devils without a Panic: Press Jingoism and Policing Tactics and Anticapitalist Protest London and Prague (http://www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/Donson%20et%20al%20-%20Folkdevils.pd...) , 2004
Shutting Down the Streets New York New York University Press, 2011

The authors, who took part in protests at summits, from the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle to the 2007 G.8. protests in Heiligendamm (Germany), analyze direct action at 20 summits and how government social control (including a Berlin-type wall at Heiligendamm) limits space for dissent.
You Are G 8. We Are 6 Billion: The Truth Behind the Genoa Protests London Vision Paperbacks,

See also:

A.6.a. General Titles
Kingsnorth, Paul, One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance Movement, (A.6.a. General Titles), pp.51-62 (Genoa and Seattle)
A.6.a. General Titles
Sellers, John, Raising a Ruckus, (A.6.a. General Titles), on role of Ruckus at Seattle.