Just say no to the WTO!!!

Why Should I Care?

The WTO is truly the most powerful organization in a New World economic order - run by a conglomeration of similarly undemocratic, pro-corporate institutions such as NAFTA, APEC, IMF and the World Bank.

These institutions are pitting workers against each other by regions within nations, women against men, black against white, first world against third world; and are forcing us to fight over the scraps left by a global system that continues to enrich the already rich while making workers underbid each other in terms of wages and working conditions.

The WTO is undermining National sovereignty and can override laws made by the United States and any other nation. If we lose our sovereignty to the WTO. Then we will lose what freedoms we have left and have a much greater problem that will be harder if not impossible to correct.

FTAA Protest Page

How to Hijack a Movement

ABC's of the WTO and the ILWU

The DEF's of the ABC's

Drop all Unjust Charges!

WTO Protests Rattle Seattle

Seattle Shows WTO's True Colors

Brian McWilliams' Speech

Brian McWilliams Letter to City Council

Paul Bigman's Letter to City Council

Standing up to the WTO!

WTO sets the global agenda

WTO Rally Pictures

A Two-Pronged Assault on Free Trade

Corporate Rule vs Civil Society

Shutting Down Seattle

An injury to one is an injury to all

On December 1st, the United Steelworkers of America held a rally in conjunction with environmentalists at Seattle's Pier 63. About 5:00 p.m. police cornered a group of 150 demonstrators marching down First Avenue, more than a mile from the designated no-protest zone and just a block from the Labor Temple where the King County Labor Council, ILWU Locals 9 and 52 and many other union locals have their offices.

Ron Judd, Secretary-Treasurer of the King County Labor Council, came down from his office when he heard the police sirens and approached the commanding officer, demanding that these law-abiding demonstrators be released rather than arrested and taken to jail. Grabbing his cell phone Judd called Mayor Schell and asked the demonstrators be released into his custody and allowed to take refuge in the Labor Temple.

But Schell, under pressure from the Secret Service and under the microscope of international media, refused to budge. The protesters, including many unionists, were handcuffed and hauled off to the county jail.

"An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere"
Martin Luther King

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the supporter of capital, and deserves the Higher Consideration."

From Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Message to Congress, 1861