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Watch "Battle in Seattle", see how activists shut down the WTO meetings.

1776 is the answer to 1984 | 02.04.2009 13:49 | Repression | Terror War | Workers' Movements

"Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings."
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"Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings."
 http://www.watch-movies-links.net/movies/battle_in_seattle/

1776 is the answer to 1984

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Stark contrast with G20 2009

02.04.2009 17:07

Makes the failure here all the more acute!

Sarkosy

Different cities

02.04.2009 19:56

To be fair to all the London protestors, London today is a different problem from Seattle, or even London during the Poll Tax. Cameras and CCTV, and the increase in surveillance and erosion of civil liberties change the playing field.

Danny

things have moved on

02.04.2009 23:33

Also police were faced with 70,000 demonstrators of a wide variety of stripes, from various trade unions to anarcho groups from Eugene, and they freaked. They had no plan. They were on like 15 hour shifts and totally lost the plot. So it may be nice to reminisce about such cozy times, but things have moved on in terms of police tactics, as the past two days attest. And so we should move on and think seriously about tactics.

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