-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Without 'Bad Apples,' WTO Protests Wouldn't Have Worked - The Stranger Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:44:29 -0500
BOARDING UP BOOMTOWN Without 'Bad Apples,' WTO Protests Wouldn't Have Worked by Josh Feit
SEATTLE'S MOST EMBARRASSING moment during last week's WTO upheaval didn't come when cops started shooting tear gas and firing plastic bullets at peaceful protesters. Nor did it have anything to do with Seattle Mayor Paul Schell's constitutionally questionable "No-Protest Zone." It didn't even come when drunken "protesters" started smashing the windows out of an abandoned Metro bus on Broadway and Pike. Seattle's darkest moment came on Wednesday morning, December 1, when protesters returned downtown to scrub graffiti off the walls of Niketown and Starbucks.
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