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I was thinking about the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle today

I was thinking today about the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle today. How it brought together an unlikely group of teamsters, steelworkers, Christian activists, eastern medicine defenders of human rights in Burma and China, academics, anarchists, and crust punks; and in doing so, brought an antiglobalization message into the mainstream. Rage Against the Machine’s “Sleep Now in the Fire” was the anthem. All during a Clinton economy that created 20 million jobs and a federal surplus. (There hasn’t...

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