Fwd: Unions Debate How Fiercely to Protest China Trade Deal

Chuck0 chuck at tao.ca
Fri Apr 7 12:34:07 PDT 2000


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> [Via Micahel Eisenscher. Jo-Ann Mort is evil. It's ok to bomb Baghdad
> and Belgrade <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Dissent.html>, but bad
> to smash a Niketown window.]
>
> Wall Street Journal - April 7, 2000
>
> Unions Debate How Fiercely
> To Protest China Legislation
> By HELENE COOPER and GLENN BURKINS
> Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL


> Images of Violence
>
> But for labor, it isn't that clear-cut. While the Seattle WTO
> protests energized antiglobalization forces, it also scarred the city
> of Seattle -- and tarnished the protest movement, with its images of
> anarchists breaking windows and rampaging through downtown stores.
> While the overwhelming majority of the Seattle protesters were
> peaceful, television images focused on the small minority of violent
> demonstrators, scenes that unsettle many among the general public and
> could potentially sour them on labor's cause. At the same time, the
> violence helped grab public attention.

If the window-smashing tarnished the protest movement, why is the FBI saying that 40,000 to 70,000 people will come for the protests?

Violent demonstrators? Who did they injure?

It looks like the WSJ is getting a bit more hardcore about us. They are running scared.

BTW, just bought my first cellphone.

------ Chuck0 "anarchist with a cellphone"

This was the year *everything* changed.

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