Early in 2000, the Institute for Policy Studies, where I work, hosted a regrouping session for the veterans of the Battle in Seattle—the massive, mostly peaceful protest that disrupted the World Trade Organization’s 1999 Ministerial Conference. The “battle” was the anticorporate globalization movement’s coming-of-age. Representatives of labor, environmental, consumer protection, and trade activist groups crowded […]
Author Archives: Miriam Pemberton
Miriam Pemberton is a research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, the oldest, multi-issue, progressive think tank in Washington, DC. She works on demilitarization issues. With Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress, she leads the team that produces the annual Unified Security Budget for the United States. She also produces the annual Military vs. Climate Security report. Formerly, she was editor and then director of the National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament.