{"id":1698,"date":"2014-01-11T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T21:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/blog\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2014-01-11T21:32:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T21:32:49","slug":"the-dark-side-of-globalization-why-seattles-1999-protesters-were-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side of Globalization: Why Seattle’s 1999 Protesters Were Right"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Dark Side of Globalization: Why Seattle’s 1999 Protesters Were Right<\/a>In 1999, my friend moved to Seattle, where he was hit with rubber bullets, tear-gassed in the face, and nearly arrested by police. He had joined the famous protests of the WTO Ministerial Conference, widely known as the Seattle Protests. The Occupy Wall Street of their time, they focused on globalization rather than the excesses of finance.<\/p>\n
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