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12/03/99 Saboteurs Cut Power at WTO in Geneva

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SEATTLE

December 3rd

11. a.m.

The two of us are still missing.

Everybody is getting ready for the big demonstration at noon. All movements together - the unions, the direct action network, churches - are calling for this. So let's go.

The demonstration went on all day. Again all different types of peoples are united in this struggle. "The WTO puts a face to capitalism", says Vicky from Seattle, who we meet while waiting to start the marching. "And it helpes to reveil the mystery of your own failure in this society. It helps people stop being simply obeyers. But it's shocking to see how fast a city like Seattle turns into a police state."

How many thousands are we this time? It's a huge crowd walking downtown Seattle, rapping and dancing. "This is what democracy looks like" and the tongue-twister "There's no power like people's power because people's power will never stop" are the main slogans. After forming a living DEMOCRACY, most people go to the jail, and hundreds are staying there in front of the building over night.

One hundred protesters chain themselves to the entrance of the hotel where most of the delegates are staying. They demand to free the 500 people who are still arrested.

Over the whole week many, many people chained themselves to something, or locked their arms together. These people were absolutely delivered to police brutality. Not only that cops sprayed directly in the faces of these people, it also occured that a police man on a motor cylce ran over a locked down person lying on the ground again and again with his machine (see video on >www.indymedia.org<, Sunday Dec 5, 8:17 p.m.). This was on Tuesday. Two days later the same thing happened with a police car.

for lots of articles, foto, audio and video look at http://www.indymedia.org

 

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HE HE,

HO HO,

THE WTO HAS TO GO!!!

SHUT, SHUT, SHUT, SHUT, SHUT,

SHUT IT DOWN

THE WTO

Yeah, we did.

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