Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1999, over 40,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference.

In 1999, my friend moved to Seattle, where he was hit with rubber bullets, tear-gassed in the face, and nearly arrested by police. He had joined the famous protests of the WTO Ministerial Conference, ...

Trade ministers from 142 nations have gathered in Doha, the capital of Qatar, to launch what they hope they will be a new round of global trade talks. The last time the World Trade Organization met in ...

As trade officials gather on the calm shores of Lake Geneva for the World Trade Organization’s long-delayed 12th ministerial conference, a perfect storm is brewing in the multilateral trading system.

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And anarchists were in the thick of these protests and solidarity actions, whether in Rio, Johannesburg, Prague, Istanbul, New York or Dublin, demonstrating an impressive organizational ability, ...

Ian Bell’s retrospective view of the 1999 WTO protests depicts an inflection point in the history of American protest, the police state, and the new economic order. By 10 a.m. on the morning of ...