SEATTLE (AP) — Nancy Haque worried about the conditions in sweatshops around the world. For Lynne Dodson, it was the possibility of attacks on public education. The plight of imperiled sea turtles got ...
In this Dec. 1, 1999, file photo, World Trade Organization demonstrators sit peacefully in Westlake Center in downtown Seattle. Nov. 30, 2019 marks 20 years since tens of thousands of protesters ...
More than 300 protesters demonstrated today in Seattle against the World Trade Organization ministerial in Qatar -- the WTO's first formal meeting since delegates failed to launch a new round of trade ...
That’s what then-UK prime minister Tony Blair said at a gathering in Switzerland in January 2000. The remarks came in Davos, just a few months after things had gone so badly in the Emerald City during ...
"A galvanizing historical document." An official trailer it out for a compelling new documentary film titled WTO/99, created entirely out of archival footage / found footage material. From director ...
EXCLUSIVE: The award-winning documentary WTO/99 has revealed a self-distribution plan that will see the film open December 5 for a week-long run at DCTV’S Firehouse Cinema in New York City. The ...
I will never forget the last week of November 1999 — when the World Trade Organization protests occurred in Seattle. I worked downtown and still remember the smell of tear gas, the rubber bullets, ...
There will be no curfew zones. No National Guard troops patrolling downtown, and no storefronts boarded up the next day from vandalism and looting. But some downtown streets this weekend could eerily ...
I will never forget the last week of November 1999 — when the World Trade Organization protests occurred in Seattle. I worked downtown and still remember the smell of tear gas, the rubber bullets, ...
A federal jury today ruled that Seattle authorities violated the civil rights of around 200 protestors who were detained during the 1999 World Trade Organisation (WTO) riots. Lawyers leading the class ...