Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:11:25 -0400
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: More on S11 victory




dominion wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Chuck0 wrote:
> 
> > Protesters blockade global talks
> > http://www.smh.com.au/news/0009/12/national/national1.html
> 
>   What I don't get about that article is how they get off saying that
> Seattle wasn't a victory.  From what I remember (and I was in Seattle)
> we shut the WTO down the first day, no?  Not only that, they had to
> declare martial law to continue the meetings.

Well, the Seattle blockade succeeded in cancelling the opening ceremony
at some theater. The main meeting happened pretty much on schedule, but
yes, they had to declare martial law to have their meeting, which was a
victory for us.

>   I would call that a victory, how do they get off calling it a failure?

Because they are the boss media and they have a vested interest in
"disappearing" history that is inconvenient to their owners. Part of it
is that lazy journalists are buying into the punditry and propaganda
that vilified activists.

Chuck0