While commentators of every ideological stripe weigh in, anti-WTO participants, having returned to home towns here and abroad, report the incredible events.
Enthusiastic audiences debate the meaning of what is reported.
Local demonstrations inveigh against the Gap's use of virtually enslaved labor in poor Asian countries. Jamal, the U.S. Black revolutionary journalist on Death Row. And anti-capitalist activists plan to write a second chapter to the Seattle episode with meetings and protests in Chicago on May Day. The epicenter of these tremors was the youthful crowd of tens of thousands, fighting for human rights and the environment, and 30,000 trade unionists who converged on Seattle to protest the WTO's Nov. 30 conference opening. They put globalized capitalism on trial-and the whole world was watching.