Comrade Barkley, Doug's right. You were watching (or thinking) very slowly (and from a long way away it sounds like, further even than me in Johannesburg). Let us know if it would help bring you up to speed a bit, for us to forward you the incredibly dynamic South material produced by *and protested on behalf of* millions of anti- WTO activists for whom a Seattle plane/hotel bill would have cost a few years' worth of work (and no, that doesn't include the labaristocracy-infected ICFTU, Doug). The South leaders and spokespeople who went to Seattle were -- as far as I hear -- absolutely delighted by all the activism and networking, save perhaps the misguided social/labour clause advocacy (which in any case wasn't a mass thing but rather techno-advocacy).
(My friends at Alternative Information and Development Centre have lots of links: http://aidc.org.za )
Patrick Bond (Wits University Graduate School of Public and Development Management) home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094, Johannesburg office: 22 Gordon Building, Wits University Parktown Campus mailing address: PO Box 601 WITS 2050 phones: (h) (2711) 614-8088; (o) 488-5917; fax 484-2729 emails: (h) pbond at wn.apc.org; (o) bondp at zeus.mgmt.wits.ac.za