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Interview with Alesha Daughtery
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| Title | Interview with Alesha Daughtery |
| Creator | Interviewer: April Eaton
Interviewee: Alesha Daughtery
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| Publisher/Affiliation | Global Trade Watch
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| Place of Publication | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Date | 2000-08-17 |
| Notes | Text of this interview can be found at the following url: http://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/interview_index.htm People discussed in interview: Mike Dolan, Ron Paul.
Places discussed in interview: Doha Qatar, Methodist Churches, The Convention Center.
Organizations discussed in interview: Citizens Fair Trade Campaign (CTC), Direct Action Network (DAN), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Europian Union (EU), Friends of Earth (FOE), FTAA, GATT, Global Trade Watch, GOTV, National Family Farm Coalition, Public Citizen, Research Foundation, Rural Coalition, Sierra Club, Teamsters, UAW - United Auto Workers, UNITE, United Methodist Church, USTR, WTO Host Committee.
Summary of interview: Alesha Daughtery, field organizer at Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch (GTW), discusses the WTO's Seattle ministerial meeting and the focus of the GTW on international trade and investment issues along with future challenges for the organization. She also talks about the importance of the protesters' success in Seattle, how the internet aided the protests and what role the GTW played in enabling a standoff of such enormous proportions. Daughtery delves into the relations between the GTW, the unions and various non-governmental organizations. She highlights the strategies GTW used to organize protesters in Seattle and why they need to transform the role of the WTO from pure corporatism to a judicial agency. She feels that international trade is inevitable but it needs to be organized in a way that is beneficial to human interest and the environment, not purely corporate interest. The goal of the GTW, and protest organizations in general, should be to educate the public and coalesce the talents of all their activists -- the younger activists' enthusiasm for the high visibility and excitement of direct action with the older activists' knowledge of government and efforts to change laws within the existing framework. |
| Timeline | After WTO |
| Intended Purpose | Oral History
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| Issue Area | Trade
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| Subjects | World Trade Organization. Ministerial Conference—Personal narratives |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Object Type | Interview
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| Physical Description | Computer file |
| Collection | WTO History Project
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| Contributor | WTO History Project |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Organizations Mentioned | Citizens Fair Trade Campaign (CTC), Direct Action Network (DAN), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Europian Union (EU), Friends of Earth (FOE), FTAA, GATT, Global Trade Watch, GOTV, National Family Farm Coalition, Public Citizen, Research Foundation, Rural Coalition, Sierra Club, Teamsters, UAW - United Auto Workers, UNITE, United Methodist Church, USTR, WTO Host Committee
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