TEAR gas billowed amid raging fires and anti-capitalist graffiti. The streets of Seattle had become a tapestry of defiance—drum circles pulsed through the city centre, papier-mâché puppets towered above the crowds, while protesters clashed with police clad in riot gear.
High above them, activists from the Rainforest Action Network scaled a construction crane to unfurl a massive banner, bearing two arrows pointing in starkly opposite directions—one reading “WTO” (World Trade Organization), the other “DEMOCRACY.”
