World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

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00:01:02 1 Organizations and planning
00:02:55 1.1 Corporations targeted
00:03:27 1.2 Lead-up months
00:08:08 2 "N30"
00:11:05 2.1 December 1
00:12:14 3 Media response
00:15:46 4 Aftermath
00:17:25 5 See also



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1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle, were a series of protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999,  when members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999. The Conference was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations.
The negotiations were quickly overshadowed by massive and controversial street protests outside the hotels and the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. The protests were nicknamed "N30", akin to J18 and similar mobilizations. The large scale of the demonstrations, estimated at no fewer than 40,000 protesters, dwarfed any previous demonstration in the United States against a world meeting of any of the organizations generally associated with economic globalization (such as the WTO, the International Monetary Fund, or the World Bank).