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PubliCola Comment of the Day Goes To…

To quote state Rep. Deb Eddy (D-48), “This level of debate would never have occurred in the MSM.”

Eddy was commenting on today’s cool thread about the WTO.

And while there were several good comments—Justin, TPN, Trevor—challenging my post, I have to give the comment of the day to Giffy. Not just because he? she? agrees with my POV, but because of the lovely anecdote.

7. Giffy says:

I agree. I feel the same way about them as I do Congress. Not a fan of all the people involved, not a fan of what they do half the time, but I am a big fan of the institution and think it is both necessary and essential.

In my more idealistic naive high school days I attended the WTO protests and actually had a great talk with a guy form Nepal who was there as an observer. I asked him why he was taking part and he said that he was working to make the organization better. We were interrupted by a slogan chanting idiot as soon as KIRO turned their cameras on us, but I have come to accept that guys position that these bodies are important and we should engage them as progressives, not fight them.

11/18/09 AT 12:17 PM




  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Michael M.

    Does this mean we get to tell WTO stories?

    I remember the protests very well. I had just been hired on at Planned Parenthood a few weeks before, working out of an outreach facility in Everett. However, I had to go through regular employee training (safety and security, how not to get blown up by crazies, house rules, etc.), and was scheduled during the WTO conference.

    I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Wedgewood that week, and found myself late every day to training because of the damn protesters (try to get from Wedgewood to Capitol Hill via bus – it sucks).

    Needless to say, at one point, while downtown, I asked some people why they were there (I was curious), and why they were protesting the WTO. They had no clue what the WTO actually did, and readily admitted they were there just for the action.

    On a separate day, I was in an intersection (I want to say 4th and Union), dumpsters dumped and burnt out in the middle, and lines of police offices boxing everyone in. And then it happened – some schmuck threw a bottle at the police officers up Union to the east of the intersection.

    After being pelted with some crap from protesters, I decided to take refuge behind the dumpsters, on the side of the police officers who were advancing forward. Only to get shot with rubber bullets, and eventually get stuck in a cloud of teargas with some British TV reporters.

    Teargas sucks.

    Stupid protesters suck more.

  • Matt A

    If you take a long term historical view the concept of “engaging them as progressives” is ridden with failure, the co-option of the ‘progressives’, and worse. Note, for example, the trajectory of the UK Labour Party from socialist in the early 20th century to a mirror image of the Conservative party. The rich and powerful will always end up controlling these institutions, and it is not ‘mature’ to believe that compromise with an institution that holds all the cards will end in your benefit.

  • http://www.fattailed.com/ Fat-tailed

    no better way to make a point than to ventriloquize your argument through the lips of a dude from Nepal.

  • http://www.fattailed.com/ Fat-tailed

    no better way to make a point than to ventriloquize your argument through the lips of a dude from Nepal.

  • sarah68

    @2 & 3: Exactly.

  • sarah68

    @2 & 3: Exactly.

  • http://manywordsforrain.blogspot.com/ Mr.Baker

    OT: King County election did get to 57%

    closest council race was Licata/Israel

    Only a handful of votes to count before it is certified.
    http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/200911/Respage23.aspx

  • http://manywordsforrain.blogspot.com/ Mr.Baker

    OT: King County election did get to 57%

    closest council race was Licata/Israel

    Only a handful of votes to count before it is certified.
    http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/200911/Respage23.aspx

  • http://threetreejournal.blogspot.com/ David in Burien

    I liked Giffy’s comment too (as I do Michael M’s above). The phrase “naive high schooler” strikes a nerve, and dredges up my own “WTO Moment.” That moment came when I was approached by several urchin-y looking kids on Spring Street. “Come with us to the protest, man” they implored. They spit at me when I declined. Perhaps, blinded by their zeal, they didn’t see that I had just emerged from a daycare carrying my one-year-old son. Not a real strong method for winning sympathy.

  • http://threetreejournal.blogspot.com David in Burien

    I liked Giffy’s comment too (as I do Michael M’s above). The phrase “naive high schooler” strikes a nerve, and dredges up my own “WTO Moment.” That moment came when I was approached by several urchin-y looking kids on Spring Street. “Come with us to the protest, man” they implored. They spit at me when I declined. Perhaps, blinded by their zeal, they didn’t see that I had just emerged from a daycare carrying my one-year-old son. Not a real strong method for winning sympathy.

  • tpn

    Re: the meme that some “protestors” didn’t know why they were there other then the “action”, or what the WTO was; do these same critics decide that a U.S. “defense” military is useless because some people couldn’t tell you why Iraq or Afghanistan was invaded? Many people still belive it was for WMDs and to catch one terrorist.

  • tpn

    Re: the meme that some “protestors” didn’t know why they were there other then the “action”, or what the WTO was; do these same critics decide that a U.S. “defense” military is useless because some people couldn’t tell you why Iraq or Afghanistan was invaded? Many people still belive it was for WMDs and to catch one terrorist.

  • Matt A

    If you take a long term historical view the concept of “engaging them as progressives” is ridden with failure, the co-option of the 'progressives', and worse. Note, for example, the trajectory of the UK Labour Party from socialist in the early 20th century to a mirror image of the Conservative party. The rich and powerful will always end up controlling these institutions, and it is not 'mature' to believe that compromise with an institution that holds all the cards will end in your benefit.