The World Trade Organization

The fearlessness and dedication that was displayed by the disagreeors in the painting was what I took to heart. It was something else to see a group of people rise up together to protest something that they believed so strongly disdain being pepper sprayed, shot at with rubberise bullets, and thrown into jail.. But why would anyone go to these lengths to protest against an organization? The World Trade presidential term was created in Jan. 1 1995 and has 140 member countries. harmonize to their official website www. wto. org the organizations main purpose is to, help apportion flow as freely as possible-so large as there are no inapplicable side-effects.This partly means removing obstacles. However the organization isnt a democratic organization. Instead the WTO rules are indite by and for corporations with inside access to the negotiations. Citizen input by consumer, environmental, human rights and wear organizations is consistently ignored as WTO meetings are held in se cret. According to the video, out of the century largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations and only 49 are countries. As a termination 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 motto of free world quite a little is stomping over labor and human rights in countries passim the world as the use of cheap labor and child labor are continually ignored by the WTO. The magazine Global Exchange states that the WTO is jam human rights abuses since they have ruled that, 1) It is il reasoned for a government to ban a product etymon on the way it is produced and 2) Governments cannot take into account the sort 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. demo of this, dates back to 1993 when according to the Global Exchange, The very branch WTO panel ruled that a regulation of the US Clean Air do, which required both internal and foreign producers alike to produce cleaner gaso crimp, 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 catchpenny(prenominal) device that allows endangered sea turtles to escape, and the WTO is currently negotiating an arranging that would eliminate tariffs on wood products, which would increase the subscribe for timber and escalate deforestation. As a result I believe that these corporations should not be allowed to brood 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 native and Im still unclear for what reason they took such extreme measures against the protestors. These were peaceful protests and the city freaked out over a few broken windows at corporations such as Starbucks and Nike. 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.