World Trade Organization

The courage and dedication that was displayed by the kickors in the video was what I took to heart. It was something else to watch over a group of people come together to protest something that they believed so strongly despite being pepper sprayed, shot at with surface bullets, and thrown and twisted into jail.. But why would anyone go to these lengths to protest against an presidential term? The World Trade Organization was created in Jan. 1 1995 and has 140 process countries. According to their official website www. wto. org the organizations main purpose is to, help trade liquify as freely as possible-so long as there be no undesirable side-effects.This partly means removing obstacles. However the organization isnt a democratic organization. Instead the WTO rules are written by and for corporations with in spite of appearance access to the negotiations. Citizen input by consumer, environmental, human rights and labor organizations is consistently cut as WTO meetings are held in secret. According to the video, out of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations and only 49 are countries. As a result it is no wonder why so many came to protest this secret meeting held in Seattle, WA.According to the video many protestors argued that the WTO and its byword of free world trade is stomping over labor and human rights in countries throughout the world as the use of cheap labor and pincer labor are continually ignored by the WTO. The magazine globose Exchange states that the WTO is blocking human rights abuses since they have ruled that, 1) It is il well-grounded for a government to ban a product base on the elan it is produced and 2) Governments cannot take into account the behavior of companies that do business with vicious dictatorships such as Burma. The protestors in the video also felt that the WTO was destroying the environment. Evidence of this, dates dressing to 1993 when according to the Global Exchange, The very first WTO panel ruled that a regulation of the US Clean Air Act, which required both national and foreign producers alike to produce cleaner gasoline, was illegal.Recently, the WTO declared illegal a provision of the Endangered Species Act that requires shrimp in the US to be caught with an inexpensive device that allows endangered sea turtles to escape, and the WTO is currently negotiating an agreement that would press out tariffs on wood products, which would increase the demand for timber and escalate deforestation. As a result I believe that these corporations should not be allowed to exsert to get away with such actions. The people in Seattle honored their legal right to assemble.The actions interpreted by the city of Seattle against these protestors were too extreme and Im still unclear for what reason they took such extreme measures against the protestors. These were self-possessed protests and the city freaked out over a few broken windows at corporations such as Starbucks and Nik e. In my point of view the steps taken by the city of Seattle was way over the line and its disgusts me that peaceful protestors were thrown into jail for demonstrating a legal right in the constitution.