Pepper Spray and tear gas filled the streets and a mass arrest was made.By noon, the opening meeting for the WTO convention was officially cancelled. Seattle’s police department, led at the time by Norm Stamper, was overwhelmed. Low estimates for the gathered crowd would later put the number of attendees at around 40,000 people, with representatives from South American labour groups, the Teamsters and other American labour unions, environmental activists, direct action pressure groups and other organized communities joining forces in opposition to global trade agreements that would potentially endanger workers and their livelihoods all over the world. They had gathered to shut down the the World Trade Organization’s final meeting of the millennium. On a grey Tuesday at the end of November in 1999, thousands of people convened in the streets of Seattle. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of A Fist Sunil Yapa Lee Boudereaux Books 320 pp $32 Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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