The Millennium Round talks, set to have begun in Seattle, have never been completed, and the WTO seems to have lost power in recent years. Conflicting opinions circle the situation: anti-globalization activists attribute the WTOs loss of power to the Seattle protests, while proponents of the WTO argue that the talks are continuing and that [...]

Anarchist groups used tactics of property damage to draw attention to their cause. With their hoods, masks and proclivity for property destruction, they quickly became sensationalized by the mainstream media. After the protests, they anonymously disseminated material about their beliefs and their justifications for their actions to be published on the internet.
To quote:
“Window-smashing has engaged [...]

Police learned from the battle in Seattle and began to implement new crowd disbursement techniques, such as negotiating with protest groups ahead of time. Police attendance more than doubled at “critical situation” seminars led by the International Association of Chiefs of Police after Seattle. More emphasis is now put on targeting trouble-makers and not entire [...]

In an effort to change how police deal with protesters, Seattle established a “Free Speech Zone” after the 1999 WTO protests. The zone spans two miles, and protesters are not allowed to gather in it, allowing world leaders to exercise ‘free speech.’ Similar zones have been established around the US. The zones have been likened [...]

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that provides emergency medical care in more than 60 countries around the world to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.
In 1999, the same year [...]