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  1. Slivka, Judd, “Downtown Traffic Will Be a Mess, Streets Will Be Closed for WTO and Protests,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Nov. 2, 1999, p. B1
  2.  Gorov, Lynda, “A Crackdown Calms Seattle, Action Taken to Prevent Confrontation,” Boston Globe, Dec. 2, 1999, p. A1
  3. Starhawk, “How We Really Shut Down the WTO,” Dec. 1999; reprinted in: Danaher, Kevin and Burbach, Roger, Ed. Globalize This!, p. 35-40
  4. Danaher, Kevin and Burbach, Roger, Ed. Globalize This!, p. 18
  5. Associated Press, “Protesters Disrupt Trade Meeting; Opening Ceremonies Cancelled; Mayor Declares Civil Emergency,” Winston-Salem Journal, Dec. 1, 1999, p. 1
  6. Burgess, John and Pearlstein, Steven, “Riot over trade talks shuts down Seattle; Overnight curfew imposed; Washington governor calls in the National Guard,” Austin American Statesman, Dec. 1, 1999, p. A1
  7. Raasch-Gilman, Betsy, “Westward Ho! Marches, music, and Mace: A street-level account of the WTO debacle,” City Pages, Dec. 15, 1999
  8. Starhawk, ibid
  9. Parrish, Geov, “Beyond Gandhi,” Seattle Weekly, Dec. 17, 1999
  10. Harney, Jim, “Witness to the Battle of Seattle,” Bangor Daily News, Dec. 15, 1999, p. 1
  11. Danaher and Burbach, p. 25
  12. Jamieson, Robert, “Five of the Players in a Cast of Thousands,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dec. 2, 1999, p. A14
  13. Klee, Kenneth, “The Siege of Seattle,” Newsweek, Dec. 13, 1999, Vol. 134 #24, p. 30
  14.  “Police pursued the fleeing crowd, firing rubber bullets and concussion grenades into the marchers' backs.” (Murphy, Kim, “WTO SUMMIT: Protest in Seattle; 400 Jailed as Police Occupy Seattle Streets,” LA Times, Dec. 2, 1999, p. 1)
  15. Staff writer, “WTO Gave Some Their 15 Minutes of Fame,” Seattle Times, p. A1
  16. Murphy, Kim, “WTO SUMMIT: Protest In Seattle; 400 Jailed as Police Occupy Seattle Streets,” L.A. Times, Dec. 2, 1999, p. 1
  17. A placeholder name, as in “John Doe.” (“The ‘T.’ stood for thirty.”)
  18. Associated Press, “Trade Talks Begin Slowly, Third World Countries Not Happy With Clinton’s Appeal for Worker Rights,” Winston-Salem Journal, p. 1
  19. WTO, John, The Tale of John WTO #199055676 and My Week in Seattle,” March 2000, p. 29
  20. WTO, John, p. 52
  21. Staff writer, “WTO Gave Some Their Fifteen Minutes of Fame,” Seattle Times, Nov. 29, 2000, p. A1
  22. Hodson, Jeff, “Anger Erupts Again Over WTO Events, Hundreds Tell Their Stories at Second Hearing,” Seattle Times, Dec. 15, 1999, p. B1
  23.  “Wingnut: A person who has their mental health issues so intertwined with their ‘politics’ that to them there is no difference. Paranoia, conspiracy theory, and poor social skills are necessary traits. In addition, ineffectiveness and failure are usually treated as signs that the Revolution is somehow coming closer to happening. The term originated in People’s Park, Berkeley, California and is usually used by slightly embarrassed anarchists and anti-authoritarians to distance themselves from ‘wingnut’ politics and activists who may also identify with those terms.” – Gordon Edgar, Sept. 14, 2004
  24. Quoted in: Danaher and Burbach, p.  65
  25. Levesque, John, “By Taking High Road, KOMO Ends Up On Low Road of Journalism,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 30, 1999, p. E5
  26. Elliot, Michael et al, “The New Radicals,” Newsweek, Dec. 13, 1999, p. 36
  27. Danaher and Burbach, p. 27
  28. Editorial, “Civil Order and the Left,” The Wall Street Journal (Europe), Dec. 14, 1999, p. 14
  29. Burgess, John and Pearlstein, Steven, “Protests Delay WTO Opening; Seattle Police Use Tear Gas; Mayor Declares a Curfew,”Washington Post, Dec. 1, 1999, p. A1
  30. US News and World Report, Dec. 13, 1999
  31. Editorial, “Taking the Seattle Resistance Seriously,” The Hindu, Dec. 11, 1999, p. 1
  32. Tarleton, John, "Love and Rage in Seattle: The Day the WTO Stood Still," December 1999, http://www.johntarleton.net/wto.html, Website accessed on 10/30/2006
  33. A protest movement that took the form of spontaneous dance parties, where protesters would invade highways or city streets, and “reclaim” them for the public, setting up portable sound systems, and throwing huge bloc parties without a permit.
  34. Flesh, Henry, “Sarah Jacobson’s Final Work,” New York Press, Vol. 17, No. 7, Feb. 2004
  35. Sinagra, Laura, “Grrrl, Interrupted,” City Pages, March 10, 2004
  36. Hernandez, Eugene, “Remembering DIY Film Queen Sarah Jacobson, 1971-2004,” indieWIRE, Feb. 18, 2004, http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_040218sarah.html, Website accessed on 10/30/2006
  37. Pekar. Harvey, American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar, (Ballantine Books, New York, 1986, 2003)
  38. Carver, Lisa Crystal, Drugs Are Nice: A Post-punk Memoir, (Soft Skull, New York, 2005), p. 211
  39. Van Ham, Lane, Capital Punishment: A History of Punk in Lincoln ’78-’86, 1996, p. 16
  40. Droogas, Adrienne, “Profane Existence: Making Punk a Threat Again,” Maximumrocknroll #210, Nov. 2000, no page numbers listed
  41. A low-fi subgenre pioneered by bands like Amebix, Nausea, and Extreme Noise Terror, “crust punk” is characterized by muddy, over-processed guitars, heavy riffs,vaguely political (dystopian) lyrics,and high-pitched shrieking and/or “cookie monster vocals.”Crust has more in common—musically speaking—with death metal, black metal, and grindcore than punk.
  42. Fritch, Matthew, “Frontier Days,” Magnet, July-August 2006, p. 78
  43. McKay, p. 9
  44. The Ramones were neither the first, nor the best of the early punk bands… though they did have a flair for writing catchy novelty tunes (“Beat On the Brat” = the “Purple People Eater” of the disco era).
  45. Ratter, JJ, Shibboleth: My Revolting Life, (Exitstencil Press /AK Press, San Francisco, 1998) p. 108
  46. Novoselic, Krist, Of Grunge and Government, (Akashic Books, New York, 2004), p. 12
  47. The term “punk rock” was first used in reference to Sixties garage bands like ? & the Mysterions.
  48. This was not uncommon. When The J. Cruelty Catalog was reviewed in Factsheet 5, I received letters from Alaska, Lithuania, Thailand, Mexico, and New Zealand.
  49. Novoselic, Krist, Of Grunge and Government, (RDV/Akashic Books, New York, 2004), p. 12
  50. Friedman, R. Seth, Factsheet 5 #62, Oct. 20, 1997
  51. Friedman, p. 97-100
  52. Friedman, ibid
  53. Droogas, ibid
  54. From the masthead of Profane Existence.
  55. McKay, George, DIY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain, (Verso Books, London, 1998), p. 4
  56. Epstein, Barbara, Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s, (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991), p. 55
  57. Losure, Mary, Our Way of the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State, (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2002), p. X (Preface)
  58. Refusal to sign autographs is often misread as a sign of elitism. “We tried not to,” said Rancid’s Tim Armstrong in a 1995 interview. “But people would get mad at us. They called us assholes.” (McDonald, Seven, “The Next Big Stink,” Details, July 1995, p. 113)
  59. Fugazi got around this conundrum by having the fans sign their guest book in return.
  60. McKay, p. 9
  61. Bey, Hakim, T.A.Z. – The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, (Autonomedia, Brooklyn, @nti-copyright 1985, 1991), p. 128
  62. Bey, p. 109-110
  63. Bey, p. 110
  64. Bey, Hakim, T.A.Z. – The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, (Autonomedia, Brooklyn 1985; 1991), p. 129, @nti-copyright: “May be freely pirated and quoted.”
  65. Siskind, Dan, “Letters,” Profane Existence # 24, Jan-Mar 1995, p. 41
  66. Dominick, Brian “Abandoning the Anarchist Movement (Or, Finding New Grounds for Radical Orgnanizing),” (Dis)connection #2, Autumn, 1994
  67. Epstein, Barbara, Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s, (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991), p. 69
  68. An example of the latter is Frank Cordero, a former priest, and a member of the Catholic Worker movement, who served a total of 44 months in prison for trespassing and other forms of nonviolent resistance –such as hammering on a B-52 bomber (Staff Writer, “Rev. Frank Cordaro to leave priesthood,” National Catholic Reporter, August 13, 2003, Web archive at: http://ncronline.org/mainpage/specialdocuments/cordaroletter.htm).
  69. Epstein, p. 69
  70. Parrish, Geov, “Hey Eugene Punks –Stay Away from My Revolution!,” Seattle Weekly, Dec. 9, 1999
  71. An extremely marginal movement, often despised by other anarchists, whose advocates are opposed to modern technology, modern medicine and agriculture, preferring mass starvation to the horrors of civilization. A fringe-within-a-fringe. Their slogans include: “Visualize Industrial Collapse,” and “Against Civilization.”
  72. Danahar, Kevin, etal, Globalize This! (Common Courage Press, Maine, 2000) p. 68
  73. Berkman later botched his own suicide.