Sunil Yapa - Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

The Battle of Seattle: The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations, Janet Thomas

Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising, Starhawk

Five Days That Shook the World, Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Allan Sekula

The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, Rebecca Solnit, David Solnit

Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing, Norm Stamper

Blue Blood, Edward Conlon

This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Independent Media Center and Big Noise Films

Breaking the Spell, dir. by Tim Lewis, Tim Ream, and Sir Chuck A. Rock

Trade Off, Shaya Mercer at Eatwell Media

N30: Who Guards the Guardians? Christopher DeLaurenti

N30: Live at the WTO Protest November 30, 1999, Christopher DeLaurenti

WTO 1999 Seattle Protest Excerpts, Public Radio Exchange and Miles Eddy (an enormous thanks to Miles Eddy, who also provided me with over two hours of raw audio from the protests, recorded by him and Justine Cooper)

For access to their archives of written, visual, and audio material, many thanks to WTO History Project at the University of Washington, the Seattle Police Department, and the City of Seattle.

And of course to the 50,000 and beyond who made it happen. As Arundhati Roy writes, “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.”

Sunil Yapa holds a bachelor’s degree in Economic Geography from Penn State University and an MFA from Hunter College. While at Hunter, Yapa was awarded the Alumni Scholarship & Welfare Fund Fellowship, was selected as the Esquire fiction intern, and was a Hertog fellow. The biracial son of a Sri Lankan father and a mother from Montana, Yapa has lived in many places around the world, including Greece, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, China, and India, as well as London, Montreal, and New York City.