If you had told those anti-capitalist protesters that less than 20 years later the WTO would be rebuked by a billionaire Republican president, their brains would've exploded
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It's sad to see Reich talk bollocks like this. I know he hasn't been perfect, but I've always had a soft spot for him since his campaign for governor of MA was the first that I ever became invested in.
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Just in case people forgot about the WTO protest in Seattle in 1999, here's a reminder. It's an interesting documentary I found on YouTube.https://youtu.be/yBUZH2vCD_k
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Seattle was the first time those stormtrooper looking officers appeared on the scene and they shocked a lot of people. Also teargas was used en masse, rare in the US between the end of the Vietnam era and 9/11pic.twitter.com/ty4Y424iSD
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The WTO exists to empower MNCs. It dis-empowers nation-states and workers.
@RBReich was Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration and championed NAFTA and "free" trade, to the detriment of workers. http://www.labornotes.org/2000/02/what-know-about-wto-union-activists-guide …pic.twitter.com/9OJrGHZIM6
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I don't support the WTO or Trump's illconceived uninformed approach to trade.. we need trade that improves the lives, wages, conditions of labor and our societies while protecting the environment and habitats all over the world
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That didn’t count. Trump wasn’t President, then.
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Why not? This is one of Trump’s few positive moves like normalising relationships w/the DPRK. The
#WTO is a vehicle for global corporations to destroy the environment & everyone knows it.#Antifa groups protested G8, NAFTA, NATO, WTO long before Trump was even politically activepic.twitter.com/EuooQuusLx
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Fair point but Trump has forced everyone on the left to become a defender of the neoliberal status quo or risk being seen to endorse his authoritarian nihilism. It is of course a false choice.
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Yes indeed, I remember that. Our engineering team camped out at the office all night as we were warned it wasn't safe for them to return home.
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Yes, there goes Reich again, fighting on behalf of the people, by defending one of the most undemocratic, unprincipled, corporate-enriching institutions on the planet. With liberals like that, who needs conservatives?
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robert reich......and BARF! WTO....and SPEW!
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WTO meetings are pretty much always met with protesters. Seattle was an extreme example, and mostly outside agitators who tore up Seattle after hours for entertainment after the protests of the daylight were over.
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