Six-year legal saga over WTO arrests gets a trial Jan. 8
December 1, 1999, Day Three of the “Battle of Seattle”: Protests over the World Trade Organization grip and pound the commercial heart of the city.
Tens of thousands of protesters threaten to disrupt the globalization summit, filling downtown with graffiti, shattering store windows, lighting dumpsters afire, and eliciting clouds of tear gas from the riot police. ...