Seattle WTO protests - 1999-11-30 - KOIN (and KIRO)

Name: Seattle WTO protests - 1999-11-30 - KOIN (and KIRO)
Uploaded: 2025-08-31
Duration: 2823 s
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Uploaded: 2025-08-31

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Read a transcript preview of “Seattle WTO protests - 1999-11-30 - KOIN (and KIRO)” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-08-31.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] [Music]

[0:00] source of unarmed National Guard

[0:02] personnel who are trained in crowd

[0:04] control.

[0:04] >> Okay, let's join Cairo television in

[0:06] Seattle and listen in.

[0:08] >> Downtown Seattle goes into effect.

[0:10] >> And we want to say at this point that we

[0:12] will continue to stay on top of this

[0:13] story. We will bring you all the latest

[0:15] information, all you need to know about

[0:17] your day and your job and your travel to

[0:20] and from the city of Seattle. Uh and so

[0:23] stay tuned all through the evening and

[0:24] then first thing tomorrow morning.

[0:29] Again, you have been watching continuing

[0:31] coverage of Cairo 7 Eyewitness News. The

[0:34] breaking story all day long. The World

[0:35] Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.

[0:38] Those meetings postponed and in some

[0:40] cases canled altogether by the civil

[0:42] disturbances and the protests. Many of

[0:45] which, we must tell you, many of which

[0:47] were peaceful just as they had been

[0:49] planned, but some of which some few, but

[0:51] they did a lot of damage and they ruined

[0:53] it for just about everybody else. And

[0:55] now the question remains, how are we

[0:56] going to continue with this conference

[0:58] tomorrow?

[1:01] >> Okay, first of all, we want to start at

[1:03] 7:00. It is time for the curfew to take

[1:05] effect as the mayor declares a civil

[1:08] emergency in downtown Seattle. You see

[1:10] it on your map there. Denny Way is the

[1:12] northern border, I5 to the east, the

[1:15] water to the west, and Yeser to the

[1:17] south. that area of downtown. You are

[1:20] not permitted outside of a building

[1:23] unless you have a WTO credential

[1:25] tonight. That in order to prevent

[1:26] rioting, looting, or any violenc