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Remember how I told you yesterday that Charlize Theron was out promoting her new film, Battle in Seattle? Well, I just got word in my email inbox that actual protesters that were at Seattle during the World Trade Protests have something really major to say about that movie:

It’s time that we in the social movements tell our own stories, reclaim our own histories, and publicly fight damaging myths of our movements past and present. We must intervene in the public understanding of what happened, what is happening, and what it all means. Stories are how we understand the world and thus shape the future—they are part of our fight against corporate power, empire, war, and social and environmental injustice and for the alternatives that will make a better world.

The real story of Seattle 1999 is of tens of thousands of people rising up, taking direct action, and changing history; standing up to corporations and governments and winning; joining with movements around the world in our common struggle against the WTO.

Here is the really interesting website that this statement came from–it is run by the activists themselves, and I found all sorts of amazing information and commentary there. I highly recommend you check it out!