One Week in 1999 that Set Up Today's Politics

The Battle of Seattle, the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization, marked a major turning point not just for an anti-globalization movement, but for the way we would come to see the world between that protest and the rise of the populist right in 2015.

The direct line between those protests and the election of Donald Trump 16 years later is indelible.

It's a story full of enduring lessons about people and power in an age of ascendant corporate influence.

Talking to me in this podcast is DW Gibson, an accomplished oral historian whose new book One Week to Change the World draws on over 100 original interviews with organizers, officials, observers, and more to bring those momentous days to vivid life.