Jaajef wa G-L

Some account of what is happening at the World Trade
Organisation in Seattle. I wonder what the Gambia
Government position is regarding these trade negotiations?
Could anyone enlighten us?


Yeenduleen ak jaama

Tony

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Salam folks, here's a taste of what's up in Seattle ...I will
post more information,and eye wittness reports by the
demonstrators themselves later tonight.

power to the people!

shut down world corporatization!

Altaf


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The people rise... the bosses PANIC!


This just in... (Nov.30) THE NATIONAL GUARD TO BE
DEPLOYED IN SEATTLE!


SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state Gov. Gary Locke
agreed
on Tuesday to send in the National Guard to remove
anti-trade
protesters as darkness fell on a day of violent
demonstrations in
the city, local television reported. The governor was
responding to a
request by Seattle Mayor Paul

Schell, who said earlier that he was declaring a 7 p.m.
curfew after

protesters threw the first day of a World Trade Organization
meeting into

confusion, KIRO Channel 7 television said.


-------------------

Earlier...


(Nov.30) The Independent Media Center is reporting that the
Mayor
of

Seattle has declared downtown Seattle to be a CIVIL
EMERGENCY. Seattle

police have attacked demonstrators with tear gas and have
fired
rubber

bullets into the crowds. Armored Personnel Carriers are on
the
streets. A

curfew has been declared!


Meanwhile, 75,000 thousand march in France to show their
opposition to the

WTO's meeting in Seattle, and several thousand protestors
attempt
to shut

down London with their own anti-capitalist protests.


The corporate media is under-reporting and distorting events
as they

continue to build in intensity. Don't listen to the lap dog
press...

bookmark the Media Center's Web site for full, accurate,
details on
what's

happening on the streets of Seattle;


http://www.indymedia.org/


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Tuesday November 30

Protests Force WTO to Relocate, Delay Opening


SEATTLE (Reuters) - Protests forced the World Trade
Organization
(WTO) on

Tuesday to delay its opening ceremony for several hours and

relocate to a

more secure building.


Thousands of protesters took up position in key places
around
downtown

Seattle early on Tuesday, preventing delegates from leaving
their
hotels

and from entering the Paramount Theater, where the opening
ceremony was to

have started at 10 a.m.


Police firing canisters of tear gas, spraying pepper spray and
firing

small rubber pellets skirmished with protesters as they tried
to
clear the

streets to allow the meeting to get underway. WTO Director-
General Mike

Moore told a half-empty theater that the decision to postpone
the
ceremony

was taken by the U.S. government as host of the meeting.
U.S.
Trade

Representative Charlene Barshefsky was among those kept
in her
room by the

protests, U.S. and WTO officials said. [MY NOTE: clinton is
expected to

arrive in Seattle on Wednesday! The ONLY World "leader" to
come
to the WTO

meeting!}-------------------







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