A letter from the WTO protest. Ten-year anniversary retrospective.
A scene from the protest of the World Trade Organization, Seattle, 1999.
When I told one of my friends that I putting something together for the ten-year anniversary of the WTO protest, he said, “has it been ten years already? I still have t-shirts that smell like tear gas.”
What I’ve posted at CoJourn.net is my experience of the day that would be misrepresented by mainstream media and lead to four days of martial law in Seattle.
There are several of my black & white photos of the protest, and a first-hand account in the form of a letter I wrote to a friend a few days later.
What was your impression of that volatile week? Were you in Seattle? Were you on the streets? What did you think it was about when you saw it on the news?
Please share.