WHAT WAS SAID ABOUT
SEATTLE ...
"I never got on with environmentalists
until I realized we were all fighting for
the same thing."
Dan Petrowski, unemployed steelworker
from Michigan.
"The rebellion on the streets and the
rebellion within the WTO negotiations has
started a new democracy movement - with
citizens from across the world and the
governments of the South refusing to be
bullied and excluded from decisions in
which they have a rightful share ... While
the broad-based citizens' campaigns stopped
the new Millennium Round of the WTO from
being launched in Seattle, they did launch
their own millennium round of
democratization of the global economy."
Vandana Shiva, Indian author and
activist, on the Corporate Watch website
(www.corpwatch.org).
"In Seattle, the demonstrators were
grappling with impossibly complex economic
issues - globalization, protectionism,
export trade, intellectual properties -
issues the most sophisticated experts have
had a hard time explaining. But through all
of that complexity, a certain diamond-hard
idea shone through: that the schemes of
well-dressed men of finance and government
gathering in ornate halls were dangerous to
the health and lives of working people all
over the world. Thousands in the streets,
representing millions, showed their
determination to resist these schemes."
Howard Zinn, author of 'A People's
History of the United States', in The
Progressive magazine.
"Seattle was the defining event at the
end of the 20th century. It represents the
triumph of values over greed."
Brent Blackwelder, President, FoE
United States.
