We are right around the corner from the 10^th anniversary of the street protests that erupted on the streets of Seattle. To commemorate this anniversary, there are a slew of talks, screening, and events around the country. In NYC on Sunday at the Change You Want to See there will be a double movie screening and on Monday at CUNY graduate center there will be a panel discussion.

There are a few pieces that have also come out marking this anniversary, all of them worth a read. One of the most interesting pieces is by Josh Fiet who writes about the clampdown on civil liberties following the heels of the protests, which I see, among other things, as testament to the effectiveness and weaknesses of these protests. In other words, they were, at some level, threatening engendering repressive state action but also were unable to respond in a timely manner to these tactics, in part, because of the unforeseen turn of events following the 9/11 attacks. Finally, here are a series of podcasts/programs on kbcs.

I look forward to reflections on this topic at these panels and hope we have a discussion on how activists might respond preemptively to crackdowns that follow from successful campaigns.