Dating from November 28 through December 29, , the correspondence expressed both support and condemnation of the Mayor's and Police Department's actions. Seattle residents as well as national and international correspondents are represented.
Series also includes some transcribed phone messages. Compton chaired the WTO Accountability Review Committee that carried out the investigation into the protests and issued a report that identified specific measures aimed to prevent similar episodes in the future.
Nick Licata Subject Files Record Series Files include correspondence, memoranda, staff reports, and notes regarding issues of note during Licata's year tenure on City Council. Licata served on the WTO Accountability Review Committee and his records include many files relating to the protests and subsequent investigation. Central Staff Analysts' Working Files Record Series Correspondence, memoranda, surveys, reports, studies, and hearing materials generated by City Council's central staff analysts in support of the Council's legislative activities.
Primary subjects relate to the major functions and issues of City government, including files relating to the WTO protests. American Civil Liberties Union of Washington. Locations: Seattle Municipal Archives Document But the increase probably already happened in China, while the decrease has yet to manifest.
Much of that carbon is produced to make goods that are exported to the U. As for labor standards, the evidence is limited. In the U. China is choking under hellish smog, but it has also managed to pull literally hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty. The industrialization of China and to a lesser degree India has been the biggest and most effective anti-poverty program the world has ever seen.
Capitalism has its flaws, but it works. The Seattle protesters didn't quite foresee the escape of hundreds of millions of Chinese and Indian and other people from indigence. But they were right: a WTO-led globalization could have been implemented a lot better. They were not silly. They were right. Lost in the smoke and gas was this fact: The event was by and large peaceful and celebratory — a kind of Woodstock with music and costumes and friendly alliances.
Most noted were animal rights demonstrators who, in a whimsical, theatrical mood, dressed as sea turtles. There were pranks, puppets and a sense of joy at seeing so many fellow protesters from across the world and the political spectrum.
The Teamsters union was out in force. Turtles and Teamsters, it seemed, could be a new national alliance to push back against the negative consequences of free trade and the sprawl of corporate influence around the world — labor and greens fighting for working people, jobs, equity and the planet. The WTO protests have been framed largely as a protest from the left. But there were other threads running through them that have turned out to be even more important in the long run. Gary Bauer, a Republican far-right Christian candidate for president, thought the protesters were right about the WTO being an unaccountable bureaucracy.
Pat Buchanan, the ultraconservative politician and commentator who ran for president in as the standard-bearer for the Reform Party, founded by Ross Perot, came to town.
I was editor of the Seattle Weekly at the time, and our editorial board interviewed a man who represented the Socialist Workers Party. I asked if his party intended to be part of the upcoming demonstrations.
No, he said.
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