Battle in Seattle is a film inspired from a real event. This film tells about citizens of Seattle City, USA who did protest action, over the coming World Trade Organization (WTO) in late November 1999 in that city. This protest was a kind of rejection of WTO which had caused much harm to the world, especially for developing countries. This film begins with a brief explanation about history of WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades), which imposed a system of world trade liberalization and expand. This organizations whose members up to 150 countries controlled 90 percent of world trade and slowly pushed the economic development of developing countries. Human rights and the environment forced to be subordinated with world trade. Battle in Seattle Film Poster The climax of this film is when some WTO member of states delegates who would do conference in Paramount Theatre, Seattle, intercepted by 10,000 demonstrators who wer...
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