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A collection of short essays celebrating and reclaiming the story of WTO resistance. Media distortions and activist myths are investigated and refuted by award-winning authors Rebecca and David Solnit. Before the tear gas settled, the real battle had begun: over whose version of history would triumph. These pithy insights into media spin and truth provide a timely re-assessment of the ongoing image of the Seattle protests and question the brazen lies that continue to appear in the mainstream press.

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Rebecca Solnit is an award-winning writer, historian, and activist. Her books include A Book of Migrations, Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism, River of Shadows, and Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. She is a columnist for Orion, and a regular contributor to the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch daily newsgram. David Solnit is an organizer active in the global justice movement, including key roles in the '99 Seattle demonstrations and the 2003 shutdown of San Francisco on the dawn of war in Iraq. He is the editor of Globalize Liberation (City Lights, 2003) and co-author of Army of None (Seven Stories, 2007)

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