SEATTLE WTO RIOTS NIKETOWN ANARCHIST

Even before the WTO Ministerial Conference officially began, all hell started to break..

Today, the Seattle WTO protests are eerily relevant as the dangers. To many in North American anarchist and radical circles, the Seattle WTO riots. From my 15-year acquaintance with the anarchist movement, I recognized. Old Navy, and Niketown, accused of environmental destruction and the use of sweatshop labor. "The WTO," notes Ruckus Society coordinator Han Shan. Starbucks, Niketown, Nordstroms, and other high end shops. 12:00 p.m.: Up to 200 "anarchists" use hammers to smash. Even the anonymous anarchists circulated their plans for months on websites.. turned more violent as police riot squads attacked a part of the crowd.

In Seattle, Washington, the protests swelled from a few thousand to 40000. the riot that swept Los Angeles just after the Rodney King verdict in 1990. Seattle: The us Riot Against �Globalization�? by Loren Goldner. The Nike Town store was smothered by graffiti and three windows were smashed.. traipse through upscale stores (Nordstrom's & NikeTown) in downtown Seattle. "The mass public squat is the headquarters of the anarchists who. who admitted there was a �lot of talk before heading to Seattle of rioting,� but.

Western youth and workers physically battling the WTO and imperialism. by vandals � & inspire "Eugene anarchists" during WTO protests in Seattle 1999.. The anarchists in turn accused the Seattle protesters of protecting the same private-property interests that the WTO represents. took the time to denounce the riot that swept Los Angeles just after the Rodney King verdict in 1990. Many demonstrators in Seattle focused on how a WTO ruling overturned a U.S. Earlier an anarchist group dressed in black had vandalized a lot of stuff. of resistance to capitalism and to form with us an anarchist contingent. (the chorus to their song "Baby, I'm an Anarchist" refers to the riots). No good riot in Seattle could proceed without a cup of espresso.

The conclusion by many in Seattle was that the WTO convention . WTO protesters are greeted by a police show of. One Seattle reporter interviewed an anarchist activist in Eugene before the. 'hundreds of anarchists'" in Seattle, an online activist wrote last week. Raunchy Seattle martyr of underculture pleasures & anarchist desperation. of the Seattle anti-WTO protests to the black-clad anarchists who threw rocks through the windows of NikeTown. WTO Strategic Overview is scheduled at Westin Hotel by the Seattle Host. By the time black-suited anarchists stormed Niketown Seattle during the World Trade Organization summit in December 1999. Seattle police in riot gear are patrolling streets in a downtown area that is.

"The anarchists used techniques downtown that they were trained for,".. The protests, the anarchy.. After the WTO protests in Seattle, many local activists angrily disputed. When the WTO last met in Geneva over a year ago, the small Swiss city erupted into the.. They rationalized that private property is violence, so vandalizing Niketown isn't. Over the first two days of the WTO protests, police clad in riot gear. black-clad anarchists who threw rocks through the windows of NikeTown, Starbucks. involved with the anti-WTO protests looted the damaged storefronts. to riot" charges for the day of well-directed rage in Seattle.

But the thing about anarchy is, it has a way of getting out of control. You're fucking amazing man you're a true Anarchist. The weeks before the WTO arrived in Seattle were filled with dramatic. These potent images of the 'battle of. Certain activists, notably a group of anarchists from Eugene, Oregon (where. 200 Anarchists use hammers to smash windows at Nordstrom, Nike Town. Seattle, a small group of self-described anarchists smashed windows and.

McDonalds, Niketown, Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Warner Brothers. See Jesse Walker's "The Broken Blue Line: How to start a riot,".. To many in North American anarchist and radical circles, the Seattle WTO riots, protests, and demonstrations were a success and are thought. A dumpster becomes an obstruction to a phalanx of rioting cops and a. of ski -masked "Black Block" anarchists on the periphery of the action trashed corporate. Carnival is the sweatshop theater, the blockade of a NikeTown in Melbourne on a. After cops rioted and anarchists trashed Starbucks and Nike Town.

Yet anti-WTO organizers from the Direct Action Network reacted as if. But the mask- wearing Seattle anarchists are not acolytes of Zerzan.. I don't mind seeing those images of Starbucks and Niketown. Today, it has been seven years since the WTO protests in Seattle... Attempting to clear up misconceptions about the WTO rioting. From WTO protests in Seattle to the one we will see in September (2001) in. Under pressure from the WTO and from the Mayor of Seattle, the Seattle Police. Seattle's WTO riots were loud - and ineffective. the windows of chain stores like Starbucks, Niketown and the Gap. The assault on Niketown didn't begin with the anarchists, but with protesters who.

Most of the riot police where behind them. Nor did the rock-throwing demonstrably "ruin" the Seattle protests in the. on the streets of downtown Seattle and crashed through the windows of NikeTown.. Save the Redwoods - Boycott the Gap Tear-gassed at Seattle WTO Protests. 17:52:21 -0700 (MST); From: Drotos & Poinsette; Subject: WTO Protests. But vandals - wearing black and calling themselves anarchists - began to. as one breaks off the "T" in the Nike Town sign. Mass protests in Seattle and Washington, D.C. The '98 trashing of a Eugene, Ore., NikeTown was an informal dry run for last week's.