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Article: Seattle was an end, and a beginning.(World Trade Organization meeting)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 10, 2000
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What did the battle in Seattle mean?
The End. And The Beginning.
To recap: World Trade Organization members gathered in Seattle the first week of December 1999 to further globalize world trade, to knock down any remaining elements of national sovereignty. Also gathered were members of hundreds of nongovernmental organizations, labor, environmental and other groups.
In Seattle, issues were paraded in the streets rather than debated in the Green Room (named for a room in Geneva, Switzerland, where you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours trade meetings among the First World rich and powerful are held).
In return, Seattle unleashed its ...