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The Yes Men

A WTO 10th Anniversary Coverage Round-up

isafrancescaRiot cops in downtown Seattle.​Today, November 30, 2009, is the 10-year anniversary of the WTO riots. Just about every media outlet in the city and beyond has their own take on what's changed and what hasn't in the time since. After the jump you'll find an (almost) comprehensive, e ... More >>

The Fussy Eye: Riot Lite

isafrancescaRiot cops in downtown Seattle.​Today, November 30, 2009, is the 10-year anniversary of the WTO riots. Just about every media outlet in the city and beyond has their own take on what's changed and what hasn't in the time since. After the jump you'll find an (almost) comprehensive, e ... More >>

Allan Sekula

isafrancescaRiot cops in downtown Seattle.​Today, November 30, 2009, is the 10-year anniversary of the WTO riots. Just about every media outlet in the city and beyond has their own take on what's changed and what hasn't in the time since. After the jump you'll find an (almost) comprehensive, e ... More >>

Gary Locke: A Corporate Champion at Commerce

Our former governor takes to D.C. a record of favors for Boeing and Microsoft.

Free Trade Is Good, Democrats

It's not often that I find myself agreeing with a former Republican party state chair, but Chris Vance is right that Democrats are headed in the wrong direction on the issue of trade. Clinton and Obama made a lot of noise in the primaries about their opposition to NAFTA, but protectionism is not the ... More >>

The Rough Road to 'No'

The campaign opposing I-912 has an intriguing regional strategy to overcome voter hatred of the gas tax.

Snookered in Seattle: The WTO Riots

An exclusive book excerpt.

How 9/11 Trumped N30

Bush and bin Laden have changed the globalization game.

Whatever Happened to 'Hippie Bitch' Forman?

A where-are-they-now guide to some key WTO players.

Is This What Failure Looks Like?

Five years after the Battle in Seattle, results are mixed. Third World delegates have gridlocked the WTO but in the U.S. anti-globalization organizers have struggled to convert street heat into policy.

WTO, No!

Poorer nations put the brakes on the U.S.-European free-trade juggernaut.

Rogue Statesman

Poorer nations put the brakes on the U.S.-European free-trade juggernaut.

Bill, Phil, and the WTO

Poorer nations put the brakes on the U.S.-European free-trade juggernaut.

News Clips— Needle Exchange

Poorer nations put the brakes on the U.S.-European free-trade juggernaut.

Back in hiding

Poorer nations put the brakes on the U.S.-European free-trade juggernaut.

News Clips— Boeinged

Poorer nations put the brakes on the U.S.-European free-trade juggernaut.

Study it to death

It's all déjà vu, all the time, as Mayor Schell sets up a task force to study Mardi Gras violence.

Labor and the mayor cozy up

It's all déjà vu, all the time, as Mayor Schell sets up a task force to study Mardi Gras violence.

One year ago

It's all déjà vu, all the time, as Mayor Schell sets up a task force to study Mardi Gras violence.

An FBI symposium

It's all déjà vu, all the time, as Mayor Schell sets up a task force to study Mardi Gras violence.

Dump Slade!

It's all déjà vu, all the time, as Mayor Schell sets up a task force to study Mardi Gras violence.

The WTO is us

While the world watched, Seattle proved to be the WTO in microcosm.

The new movement

The legacy of Seattle's WTO protest leaders.

Report on the reports

Our capsule look and reaction to the other WTO reviews.

Answering WTO's big questions

We've sifted through the documents, heard the testimony, and read the reports: Here's our take on what went wrong in the streets of Seattle.

Expiring frog?

The WTO is dead in the water, but don't count it out just yet.

Investigate this!

The WTO is dead in the water, but don't count it out just yet.

Divided they stand

Mayor Schell and Pat Davis play the WTO blame game.

Top cop speaks

Why the 'nest of anarchists' wasn't raided and other tales from the WTO.

A wing and a dare

Afraid to talk money with the feds before the WTO, City Hall crossed its fingers—and lost.

You can't camouflage the military-cop convergence.

Afraid to talk money with the feds before the WTO, City Hall crossed its fingers—and lost.

More bunker bickering

An SPD commander fires back at the state patrol chief over WTO complaints.

Boycotts

Burma, sanctions, and the attorney general.

Happy-face hypocrite?

Mayor Schell told Seattle to come downtown and shop during the WTO, but City Hall's planning efforts suggest bureaucrats were headed for the bunker.

Back to the voting board

Mayor Schell told Seattle to come downtown and shop during the WTO, but City Hall's planning efforts suggest bureaucrats were headed for the bunker.

Schell-shocked

Mayor Schell told Seattle to come downtown and shop during the WTO, but City Hall's planning efforts suggest bureaucrats were headed for the bunker.

Who's a wuss?

Mayor Schell told Seattle to come downtown and shop during the WTO, but City Hall's planning efforts suggest bureaucrats were headed for the bunker.

Cop on the run

Sheriff Dave Reichert chased WTO looters through Seattle streets. Is he trying to chase Schell out of town as well?

Prosecute me, please!

An activist attorney faces off with Mark Sidran as WTO protesters threaten to clog Seattle's courts.

BOSS OF THE INTERNET

WTO isn't the only multinational who wants to rule the world.

Message to the media

WTO isn't the only multinational who wants to rule the world.

"In three months' time we'll look back and realize how lucky we are — Seattle is on the map."

WTO isn't the only multinational who wants to rule the world.

Neither victim nor martyr

Police chief Norman Stamper spins his own resignation.

The battle within

WTO's Third World delegates say labor and environmental standards will hurt the poor.

Mistaken identities

We have met the World Trade Order, and it isn't us.

Clinton throws brick

The President's talk of sanctions shatters chance for WTO unity.

The day the WTO stood still

How the protesters shut down Seattle.

All the way to Seattle

International protesters spice up WTO protests.

The mask slips

The Third World blocks US plans at the WTO's Seattle round.