1999 Seattle WTO protests

When

30 Nov 1999

Kind

Protest

Coordinates

47.61° N, 122.33° W

Description

November 1999 anti-globalization protests during the WTO Ministerial Conference in Seattle, Washington, USA

Participants

50000

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Series of anti-globalization demonstrations

The 1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle, were a series of anti-globalization protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, where members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999. The Conference was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations.

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