Another World Was Possible

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Alexandra Wandel, Gonzalo Berrón, and Paul Adlerstein on the 1999 mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and on the giant global justice movement that mobilized unions, farmers, environmentalists, public interest advocates, and various radical leftists all over the world.

Recorded live in Brussels with the European Trade Justice Coalition. First in a two-part series. Next up: a view from the Global South with Jane Nalunga and Walden Bello.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com
0:05.2	and by the nation magazine's Books and the Arts section, which features some of the most
0:12.3	incisive and exciting essays on books, politics, history, and ideas today. This month marks
0:20.2	the release of its annual fall books issue.
0:23.0	In this edition, readers will find Matthew Duss writing on the crisis of Democrats' foreign
0:28.1	policy, Jeet here on Liberals' cozy relationship to William Buckley, and Lela Lallami
0:35.0	on the Internet's Lost Souls.
0:40.3	In his piece on James Baldwin, Elias Rodriguez writes that,
0:42.3	quote,
0:43.3	it was his belief in love's overriding power
0:46.3	that made it possible for him to write,
0:48.3	to think, and to participate in movements for social change.
0:52.3	Future issues will feature writing from Benjamin
0:55.6	Cuncle on Thomas Pinchins America, Jonathan Letham on Kafka's Animals, Kimberly
1:01.7	Phillips Fine on Donald Trump's theory of capitalism, and much, much more. Find the books and the
1:09.6	arts section at the nation.com.
1:17.4	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence,
1:29.5	Rhode Island. Nearly 26 years ago, beginning on November 30, 1999,
1:36.1	tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Seattle and brought the city to a standstill
1:41.8	in opposition to the WTO ministerial conference.
1:45.6	The neoliberal vision for the World Trade Organization was to create a constitution for the global
1:51.2	economy that protected the free movement and free action of capital from the democratic
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