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Article: Restructuring the world.(Writers & Writing)
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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WHEN FERVENT PROTESTS and demonstrations, some of them violent, broke out in Seattle, the site of a meeting of representatives of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in December 1999, most casual newspaper readers and viewers of television newscasts felt baffled. Exactly what, for openers, was the World Trade Organization? And why were rampaging hordes of people--many of them imaginatively costumed, painted, feathered, etc. looking like a road company of Hair that had been caught up in and then expelled from a time warp--incensed enough to hurl themselves into police barricades and through plate glass windows, performing a variety of guerrilla street theater that bad not ...
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