[Newspoetry] WTO: Alternet

[Scott Rettberg]

Dear media mavens,

The massive protests of the Seattle's World Trade Organization talks have
proved to be as explosive as anticipated. AlterNet has compiled a tremendous
variety of articles about this hugely important event, all drawn from the
independent media, which often presents a  different perspective from local
and national  daily media. Check out http://www.alternet.org/wto.html for
these breaking stories:

THE SIEGE OF SEATTLE
By Roni Krouzman, Original to AlterNet
Seattle remained under marshal law on Thursday, as the WTO continued its
ministerial meetings and Seattle Police resorted to violence and mass
arrests to keep protesters off of the city's streets. The latest update from
the Emerald City.

TAKING IT TO THE STREETS
By Bill McKibben, Tompaine.com
The era when global trade decisions get made without anyone noticing is
officially over.

INSIDE THE BUNKER
By Mark D. Fefer, Seattle Weekly
The WTO delegates fumed -- and ran scared -- as protester brought their
talks to a halt.

THE BATTLE IN SEATTLE
By Harold Meyerson, LA Weekly
The WTO protests in Seattle could well signify an ideological turning point
-- or at least, an end to the unchallenged dominance that right-wing
economics has enjoyed for the past two decades.

BARE BREASTS, GREEN CONDOMS AND RUBBER BULLETS
By David Moberg, Salon
The WTO has united labor and the radical, countercultural left in a way the
anti-war movement never could.

THE DAY THE WTO STOOD STILL
By Geov Parrish, Seattle Weekly
How did thousands of protesters get together and make their massive,
non-violent, highly effective demonstrations happen?

WHO'S VOICE MATTERS ON TRADE?
>>From the Public Campaign
The protests in the Seattle illustrate what happens to issue -- in this case
global free trade -- when the American public says "go slow" and campaign
contributors say "move fast."

THE MASK SLIPS
By Roger Downey, Seattle Weekly
How are WTO delegates going to cover their asses and pretend that WTO
Seattle 1999 isn't turning out to be a catastrophic public embarrassment for
US foreign and economic policy?


In addition to these stories we have comprehensive background information
about the WTO, the Seattle protests and the issues surrounding global trade.
Check it all out at http://www.alternet.org/wto.html.

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