Below is an account of the N30 protests I wrote shortly after the tear gas cleared and the WTO left Seattle in disarray. I had come to Seattle a week before the protests to write about it for my website.

Greg Bachar lives in Seattle. He teaches English at Seattle Central
Community College and has published work in Conduit, Indiana Review,
Southeast Review, Quick Fiction, 3rd Bed, and Pontoon: An Anthology of Washington State Poets. He is the author of two collections of poetry and prose, Three-Sided Coin and Sensual Eye.

THE TROUBLES

GREG BACHAR

P.O. BOX 23134
SEATTLE, WA
98102-0434
gregbachar@earthlink.net

"Like most of us, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times
a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking,

To order a copy, contact Community Alliance for Global Justice
206.405.4600
contact_us@seattleglobaljustice.org
Cost: $10 each (including shipping)

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 22:53:26 -0500 (EST)
From: ****
Subject: Re: The end of the story from Seattle..

Warning -- this is possibly the longest email I have ever written.

I've been in Seattle since Friday before the big day, leaving tonight... Here are some more parts of the story. I haven't had much chance to follow the media outside Seattle and I would love to know what came across and what didn't. I'm going to get on the internet and check it all out soon.
lw

--

What I Learned At The WTO Protests In Seattle...
by Pete Tridish,

A Ruckus I Couldn't Miss:

What I Learned At The WTO Protests In Seattle...
by Pete Tridish,

A Ruckus I Couldn't Miss

Here is a quick image to get started... I'l post more snippets later.

Roaming the streets on N30. It has been so long I can't remember the name of the intersections anymore.

One of the environmental groups (Greenpeace, perhaps? Or the Humane Society?) brought a giant inflatable killer whale. Huge, perhaps 30' long.

(This article was originally published in the December 1999 issue of UltraViolet, newsletter of LAGAI Queer Insurrection. More recent issues of UV are online at www.lagai.org.)

This article was originally published in the December 1999 issue of UltraViolet, the newsletter of LAGAI - Queer Insurrection (more recent issues are online at www.lagai.org).

Hundreds of men and women from the villages in the Narmada valley took out a bullock cart rally as a mark of protest against the World Trade Organisation(WTO) and the globalisation. The rally, organised by the Youths of Narmada ( Rewa ke yuwa) in Anjad ( M.P.) on Tuesday ( Nov. 30) reasserted its resolve to stop the Sardar Sarovar dam in the valley, as a sign of the distorted development. The people particularly opposed the adverse impacts of the so called globalisation and WTO on agriculture, small industries and the rights of the people in India.