1. Adopted by Emily Widen from NCEE’s “Focus: Globalization”
WTO Protests:
Seattle, 1999
Adopted by Emily Widen from NCEE’s “Focus: Globalization”

2. This slide hyperlinks to the PBS Commanding Heights video, Select Chapter 16

3. WHO WAS MARCHING?
Union organizers
Environmentalists
Animal rights activists
Senior Citizens

5. WHAT WERE THEIR GOALS?
Protesters wanted to shut down the WTO meeting by blocking major roads, breaking windows of major downtown businesses, and engaging police

7. WHEN WAS THE PROTEST?
November 30 – December 2, 1999

9. Downtown Seattle, Washington
WHERE WAS THE PROTEST?
Downtown Seattle, Washington

11. WHY WERE THEY PROTESTING?
Protestors believed that WTO policies promoting greater free trade were bad for the environment, increased world poverty, and only made large corporations wealthy.

13. WTO supporters believe that free trade leads to increased human rights, literacy rate, and even life expectancies.

18. THE DISCUSSION CONTINUES…