Riot in Paradise Power and Culture at the World Trade Organization Protests, Cancun Elizabeth Venable

click here: Riot in Paradise Interviews: Christian Guerrero Tabitha Dodson Sue Hilderbrand Luis Fernandez Heather Ajani Tana Chy Bruhns Keith McHenry Sonya Diehn Brice Smith

Riot in Paradise is an oral history project documenting the protests of the World Trade Organization in Cancun in September, 2003. The purpose was to look at the ways that Americans of many backgrounds, as well as political, cultural, and ethnic identities, looked at the protests. The purpose was also to describe the meshing of the many backgrounds and cultures that happened in the event itself, as well as the power dynamics, and to analytically document what happened there. All but one of the persons interviewed live or have lived in Arizona and have been mildly to intensely politically involved there. The participants range in ideology from anarchist, to pagan, to anti-capitalist, to just being concerned citizens. The project was composed for presentation at the annual conference of the International Oral History Association in Rome, 2004. The paper was composed in January of 2004. All Photographs Courtesy of Tana Chy Bruhns, taken in Cancun, 2003. This page is anti-copyright but please give credit where credit is due. More Photographs Here 1 2 3 4 5 Cancun Indymedia Photos NO OMC! NO WTO! for updates as to where actions might be held, please visit: www.indymedia.org www.protest.net Visit An Rince The': an Oral History of Irish Dance in Arizona