Bette Jean Bullert is a communication scholar, a documentary filmmaker and an oral historian. She received her Ph.D. in communication from the University of Washington in 1995. Since then, she has taught communication and video production as an Assistant Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Penn. In Fall 1999, she was a Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Strategic Public Relations, Sweatshops, and the Making of a Global Movement
January 1, 2000
A paper by B.J. Bullert, fall 1999 fellow, examines communication tactics used by activists against multinational corporations. The 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle succeeded in linking labor, environmental concerns and human rights to the WTO, resulting in a march of an estimated 40,000 people. The environmental, human rights, labor rights and sweatshop issues
