WTO Ten Years After

Ten years ago I was in Seattle during the WTO protests. I went downtown during my lunch break to see what was going on... It was an unreal sight to see police armed to the teeth and protesters breaking windows and burning garbage cans, and singing songs while blocking intersections...

In the local news we heard only of the "violence" that was taking place. No analysis on why the protesters were against so-called free trade. It was a freely and widely accepted paradigm: unfettered capitalism, free trade, winner take all parade to the finish.

Jon Talton writes in today's Seattle Times that the protesters were right all along...

We've come a long way, baby.

--- T