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The World Bank Group

  • Film

    May 18, 2011

    Out of Africa

    A Seattle filmmaker explores her heritage.

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2010

    Bumbershoot Review: Billy Braggs Needs Only A Guitar and A Message to Prove He's A Badass

    Billy Bragg has been fighting the man for nearly three decades.​Who: Billy Bragg When: 8:30 p.m. Where: Starbucks Stage Anyone hoping that Bumbershoot 2010 would be an escape from the rigors and stresses of the Great Recession, the epidemic of global poverty, or the polarization of American ... More >>

  • Diversions

    January 20, 2010

    Your Words of Wisdom

    Billy Bragg has been fighting the man for nearly three decades.​Who: Billy Bragg When: 8:30 p.m. Where: Starbucks Stage Anyone hoping that Bumbershoot 2010 would be an escape from the rigors and stresses of the Great Recession, the epidemic of global poverty, or the polarization of American ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    A Mystery of Violence

    As the FBI investigates the possibility of a terrorism “recruitment network” in Seattle, the local Somali community struggles to understand why young men would return to a country they never knew.

  • News

    November 26, 2008

    Is Sims Already Gone?

    The county executive insists he’s up for another four years atop a county in crisis. But some say his head’s in the clouds.

  • Diversions

    February 20, 2008

    What's Holding Mexico Down?

    The county executive insists he’s up for another four years atop a county in crisis. But some say his head’s in the clouds.

  • Film

    August 8, 2007

    Seattle Weekly PickBamako: Justice in Africa (If Only On-Screen)

    The county executive insists he’s up for another four years atop a county in crisis. But some say his head’s in the clouds.

  • Film

    May 23, 2007

    SIFF Week One: Picks and Pans

    The county executive insists he’s up for another four years atop a county in crisis. But some say his head’s in the clouds.

  • Film

    February 7, 2007

    Feb. 7-14, 2007

    Evolution debate erupts on Capitol Hill!

  • News

    November 15, 2006

    The AIDS Evangelists

    World Vision is campaigning to raise AIDS compassion among Christians. The key: focus on widows and orphans.

  • Film

    February 22, 2006

    Shame on Your Plate

    Europeans dine on a delicacy from Africa, where famine, poverty, and AIDS are rampant. Meet the fishy face of globalization.

  • News

    June 22, 2005

    Red, Blue, and Green City

    Europeans dine on a delicacy from Africa, where famine, poverty, and AIDS are rampant. Meet the fishy face of globalization.

  • News

    November 24, 2004

    Is This What Failure Looks Like?

    Five years after the Battle in Seattle, results are mixed. Third World delegates have gridlocked the WTO but in the U.S. anti-globalization organizers have struggled to convert street heat into policy.

  • News

    September 24, 2003

    WTO, No!

    Poorer nations put the brakes on the U.S.-European free-trade juggernaut.

  • News

    April 24, 2002

    Hearts and wallets

    Poorer nations put the brakes on the U.S.-European free-trade juggernaut.

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    Voodoo science

    Poorer nations put the brakes on the U.S.-European free-trade juggernaut.

  • Arts

    January 2, 2002

    Art can wait

    Novelist Arundhati Roy returns—with a radical essay collection.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Back in hiding

    Novelist Arundhati Roy returns—with a radical essay collection.

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    "How can I wave a flag without it being misinterpreted as solidarity with a court-appointed president who wants me to support his latest war?"

    Novelist Arundhati Roy returns—with a radical essay collection.

  • Arts

    June 6, 2001

    Karl Marx's Top 25 Reading List for Resurgent Radicalism

    Novelist Arundhati Roy returns—with a radical essay collection.

  • News

    August 2, 2000

    The new movement

    The legacy of Seattle's WTO protest leaders.

  • News

    August 2, 2000

    Expiring frog?

    The WTO is dead in the water, but don't count it out just yet.

  • News

    July 26, 2000

    It's not easy being Green

    Seattle's Green Party struggles to create a real political alternative.

  • News

    July 26, 2000

    Who's that cop?

    Seattle's Green Party struggles to create a real political alternative.

  • News

    June 7, 2000

    Protesting everything

    Seattle's Green Party struggles to create a real political alternative.

  • Music

    May 17, 2000

    The PC Express

    Seattle's Green Party struggles to create a real political alternative.

  • News

    May 3, 2000

    "It's a battle that's far from over on many fronts. . . . If I have to, I'll hoist my panties and bra up the highest mast and set fire to them."

    Seattle's Green Party struggles to create a real political alternative.

  • News

    April 19, 2000

    Sweet sixteen

    Police prevent "A16" protests from shutting down the IMF and World Bank.

  • News

    April 12, 2000

    Neo-liberals on the run

    Police prevent "A16" protests from shutting down the IMF and World Bank.

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    The Kaiser meltdown

    Police prevent "A16" protests from shutting down the IMF and World Bank.

  • News

    March 22, 2000

    Chemical cops

    Critics charge too little is known about the health effects of the tear gas and pepper spray used by Seattle police during the WTO demonstrations.

  • News

    March 8, 2000

    Target: Kaiser

    Critics charge too little is known about the health effects of the tear gas and pepper spray used by Seattle police during the WTO demonstrations.

  • News

    February 2, 2000

    A reprieve for Microsoft

    Critics charge too little is known about the health effects of the tear gas and pepper spray used by Seattle police during the WTO demonstrations.

  • News

    December 1, 1999

    The mask slips

    The Third World blocks US plans at the WTO's Seattle round.

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    The Devil's Dictionary of Free-Trade

    The Third World blocks US plans at the WTO's Seattle round.

  • News

    November 10, 1999

    WTO 101

    The Third World blocks US plans at the WTO's Seattle round.

  • News

    October 13, 1999

    Moore power or less?

    The new head of the WTO hopes no one notices he's the Wizard of Oz.

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