Twenty years ago this weekend, 50,000 people converged on Seattle to protest against the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which was holding a ministerial-level meeting in the city, and a plan championed by the world's largest corporations to increase the organisation's authority over even more facets of people's lives.
The epic protests, televised worldwide, revealed that Americans were united with millions of people protesting against the organisation in other countries who demanded new rules for the global economy to make it benefit more people.
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