What happened at the seventh ministerial conference in the WTO?

What was the purpose of the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Seattle?

• For my history class I'm having to do a report on the 1999 WTO conference in Seattle, Washington that led to all those horrible riots. I've been searching the internet for ...show more

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  For anyone else who needs to know the answers for every question that was asked "The purpose of the conference -The organizations that attended it -The groups that protested the conference and their mission statements (or why they were protesting), or at least their website. " Here are the answers to all of them. This is a prezi= a presientation. Just click the next arrows and it'll go through all of the answers you asked. http://prezi.com/4rsl0ck_orgp/battle-in-seattle-by-justin-oldenburg/ If you need even MORE information on all of these questions, like if you need to cite anything, here is more web sites that has LOTS of info on them. http://www.globalissues.org/article/46/wto-protests-in-seattle-1999 http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/dec/05/wto.globalisation http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/11/22/seattle.battle.html http://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/ ENJOY! :D