A journalist from the Wall Street Journal has posted a video story today, making a parallel between the Seattle protests 10 years ago and the demonstrations taking place these days in Geneva for the 7th Ministerial of the WTO.
On the same topic, the Yes magazine has compared pictures of the real demonstration that took place in the streets of Seattle, versus the fiction film that was directed recently by an Irish Hollywood actor (Stuart Townsend).
Actually, the violent part of the demonstration took part fortunately before the start of the summit, 2 days before, to be precise : some of the activists coming from all over the world were part of the demonstration that was invaded by a group of «Black blocks» who caused mayhem in the crowd : here is some early footage of the damage they caused, and the subsequent police repression that followed.