DW Gibson
 

One Week to Change the World

The definitive history of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests, drawn from 100 original interviews and timed to the event’s twenty-fifth anniversary.

One week in late 1999, more than 50,000 people converged on Seattle. Their goal: to shut down the World Trade Organization conference and send a message that working-class people would not quietly accept the runaway economic globalization that threatened their livelihoods. Though their mission succeeded, it was not without blowback. Violent confrontations between police and protestors resulted in hundreds of arrests and millions of dollars in property damage. But the images of tear gas and smashed windows that flashed across TVs and newspapers were not an accurate representation of what actually happened that week.

In the oral history One Week to Change the World, award-winning journalist DW Gibson pieces together a complex and compelling account of what really went down in Seattle, immersing you in the angst that defined the end of a millennium, complete with fight clubs and Y2K doomsday scenarios.

This book is a page-turning drama, an essential history, and a practical handbook for how to make one’s voice heard.

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Previous Books

14 Miles: Building the Border Wall

DW Gibson delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump’s border wall in San Diego—and the impact on the lives of local residents. Fascinating, propulsive, and incredibly timely, 14 Miles is an important work that explains not only how the wall has reshaped our landscape and countless lives but also how its shadow looms over our very identity as a nation. 

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The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century

In this award-winning oral history, DW Gibson takes gentrification out of the op-ed columns and textbooks and brings it to life, showing us what urban change looks and feels like by exposing us to the voices of the people living through it. 

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Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy

During the summer and fall of 2011, DW Gibson traveled across the US, beginning in Orange County, California, ending in New York City. He interviewed individuals who lost jobs because of the economic downturn from 2007-2011.

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Additional Writing

 

DW Gibson shared a National Magazine Award for his work on “This is the Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn” for New York magazine. His work has also appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Washington PostThe Nation and The Guardian.

 

 

On the Radio

 

Gibson’s radio work includes co-hosting the podcast There Goes the Neighborhood, guest hosting various news programs for WNYC, and reading original essays for Live From Here as well as NPR’s All Things Considered.