Basically, no matter what issue you're into, the World Trade Organization is ripping it apart. The way the activists see it, the WTO, founded in 1994 as the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, has been on a five-year rampage. Environmentalists are enraged that the WTO has ruled that U.S. laws protecting endangered sea turtles and promoting clean air, to name two, violate free-trade rules. Labor activists say the WTO encourages manufacturers to relocate textile and factory jobs to low-wage countries. Days are organized down to the minute.
Breakfast is granola or pancakes.
Contemplating Arrest Dennis Moynihan, a free-trade foe from Boston, is eager to get up to business. He tried scaling a building in Boston once to hang a banner, but didn't make it to the top, so he knows he has a lot to learn. Over in the Ewok Village, a whooping Leonie Sherman careens from tree to tree, sliding a rope. Such tree slides, explains trainer Chris Crews of Athens, Ohio, are useful to train the activists to swing from building to building. Among this group, many boasting FBI files, getting arrested is a badge of honor.