Hope is Renewed for Democratic Values
"The WTO has two options:
either its next meeting is in Pyong-Yang, North Korea, to avoid the protests from civil
society or it changes its attitude toward public scrutiny and democracy."
- Greenpeace
International
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Victory!
No Seattle Round.
An archive of
Volunteer NGO Reports from Seattle WTO Gathering Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 1999.
Reflections
(NEW) The WTO One Year
After Seattle:
The Turtles are Still Worried
by Patti Goldman
A year ago, sea turtles marched with teamsters through Seattle streets to protest a
closed, antidemocratic, and environmentally hostile organization. In all, some 50,000
people gathered to charge that the World Trade Organization elevates free trade above
protection of public health, the environment, and workers’ rights. (more)
There’s something happening here.
by Tom Turner
It will be a while -- months, years maybe -- before we can get a perspective on what
happened this week in Seattle, but my hunch is that we were watching history. (more)
After Seattle
by David Moberg (In These Times)
After Seattle it will be difficult for any politician to talk about global economics
without addressing links to labor rights, human rights, food supplies and the protection
of both consumers and the environment. After Seattle it also will be critical that the
protesters maintain their broad coalition, link up more with movements in developing
countries, and define with greater clarity what they are for as well as what they are
against. (In These Times)
N30
by Paul Hawken
Those who marched and protested opposed the tyrannies of globalization,
uniformity, and corporatization, but they did not necessarily oppose internationalization
of trade. (more)
A Flash of the Possible
by Howard Zinn
The Seattle protests, even if only a gleam of possibility in
the disheartening dark of our time, should cause us to recall basic principles of power
and powerlessness, so easily forgotten as the flood of media nonsense washes over the
history of social movements. (The
Progressive) |
