Seattle Diary: It's a Gas, Gas, Gas
Five Days That Shook the World: 15 Years On…
St. Clair, Jeffrey
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/05/seattle-diary-its-a-gas-gas-gas/
Date Written: 2014-12-05
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year First Published: {43101 Seattle Diary: It's a Gas, Gas, Gas SEATTLE DIARY ITS A GAS, GAS, GAS Five Days That Shook the World: 15 Years On… St. Clair, Jeffrey http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/05/seattle-diary-its-a-gas-gas-gas/ CounterPunch On this week Seattle was so tightly wound that it primed to crack. The city, which practiced drills to prepare itself against possible biological or chemical warfare by WTO opponents, was about to witness its own police department gas its streets and neighborhoods. By the end of the week, much of Seattle’s shiny veneer had been scratched off, the WTO talks had collapsed in futility and acrimony and a new multinational popular resistance had blackened the eyes of global capitalism and its shock troops, if only for a few raucous days and nights. 2014-12-05 1999 2014 ART Article CX17077 0 false true false CX17077.htm [0xc00247ce10] Cx}
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX17077
On this week Seattle was so tightly wound that it primed to crack. The city, which practiced drills to prepare itself against possible biological or chemical warfare by WTO opponents, was about to witness its own police department gas its streets and neighborhoods. By the end of the week, much of Seattle’s shiny veneer had been scratched off, the WTO talks had collapsed in futility and acrimony and a new multinational popular resistance had blackened the eyes of global capitalism and its shock troops, if only for a few raucous days and nights.
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