"But criticism of the street warriors [in Seattle] was not confined to the corporate custodians of 'free-market' commercial morality. Here was the line-up on this important battleground. On the one side: lib-lab pundits, flacks for John Sweeney and James Hoffa like the Nation's Marc Cooper, Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower, middle-of-the road [sic] greens, Michael Moore, a recycle binful of policy wonks from the Economic Policy Institute and kindred DC think-tanks, Doug Tompkins (the former czar of sweatshop sports clothing who funds the International Forum on Globalization. On the other side: the true heroes of the Battle in Seattle - the street warriors, the Ruckus Society, the Anarchists, Earth First!ers, anti biotech activists, French farmers, radical labor militants such as the folks at Jobs With Justice, hundreds of Longshoremen, Steelworkers, Electrical Workers and Teamsters who disgustedly abandoned the respectable police-sanctioned official AFL-CIO parade and joined the street warriors at the barricades in downtown."
- Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair, 5 Days That Shook The World: Seattle and Beyond (Verso, 2000).