More than 300 protesters demonstrated today in Seattle against the World Trade Organization ministerial in Qatar -- the WTO's first formal meeting since delegates failed to launch a new round of trade ...
"A galvanizing historical document." An official trailer it out for a compelling new documentary film titled WTO/99, created entirely out of archival footage / found footage material. From director ...
That’s what then-UK prime minister Tony Blair said at a gathering in Switzerland in January 2000. The remarks came in Davos, just a few months after things had gone so badly in the Emerald City during ...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization is facing one of its most dire moments, the culmination of years of slide toward oblivion and ineffectiveness. Now may be a chance to turn the tide and ...
I will never forget the last week of November 1999 — when the World Trade Organization protests occurred in Seattle. I worked downtown and still remember the smell of tear gas, the rubber bullets, ...
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Trade Organization predicted a “bumpy and rocky” road as it opened its highest-level meeting in 4-1/2 years on Sunday, with issues like pandemic preparedness, food ...
There will be no curfew zones. No National Guard troops patrolling downtown, and no storefronts boarded up the next day from vandalism and looting. But some downtown streets this weekend could eerily ...
The World Trade Organization has been on the defensive during the Covid-19 pandemic, with many groups and countries calling for waivers on international patent rights for vaccines so they might ...
If you missed out on the tear gas, rubber-pellet fire and window-smashing fun of Seattle's 1999 anti-World Trade Organization riots, cheer up, you can still play the video game. Thanks to Rockstar ...