Okay, I have to say some things to correct the overall record, but in essence everything about Rika's story and the 4-part flow chart of benchmarks is absolutely correct--both the correction and the validation are from personal experience. For the correction, I am uncertain how the WTO riots fomented by the police department in Seattle culminate into the conclusion that the WTO itself was thwarted. It was not. The WTO still functions, is still an international governing body, and STILL has no worker representation anywhere. I, therefore, cannot consider that a thwarting. I was at the WTO protests. I was in the marches. I danced in the intersection of 6th and Pine. I lived on Capitol Hill and watched in horror as the police swarmed the streets; Tukwila cops who brought in to replace the Seattle cops judged to be too familiar with residents of the area shot visually-identifiable Red Cross volunteers with large caliber rubber bullets. I had been injured at work several months earlier and would have been indelibly harmed had I been streetside, so I waited. After nightfall, a line of demarcation between the police, which had surrounded the local police department at the east corner of 12th and E. Pine for blocks, and the protestors was set on E. Pine Street between Broadway and Nagle Place. I found a chaperone who walked with me around the entire police line at a safe distance while I brought out a rosary and prayed for peace. Since no one died that night, I consider that a success. Until the WTO admits union/worker representation, we have not seen success yet. The WTO defers to the International Labor Organization, a division within the United Nations, which was one of the first departments organized within the UN back in 1919. As you might expect, the collective attitude in 1999 on the street before the riots was that the UN through the ILO would be just as effective at representing workers against encroachments of the WTO as the current UN is at confronting genocide in Gaza. Our refusal to disperse based on ILO representation being enough to offset the WTO lead to the police inciting a riot while wearing for the first-time ever military-grade body armour on U.S. soil in a U.S. city.
Mii~ Anna, thank you so much for this! That $60 link was for our special 200 paid subscriber flash sale, which just ended on Halloween.
You absolutely didn't miss the rebellion, though! We'll definitely be running more special offers in the future as our Phalanx grows. Thank you for being such a core part of our War Council! Your support means the world. Nipah~☆!
Fabulous ‘story’ and histories of the impossible made possible. If I wasn’t an old broken woman living with not even enough means to support myself - I would financially contribute. But I am that ‘imprisoned’ woman and not as brave as ‘the witch’. But I will pray the story is read far and wide and minds are awakened to the prospect for change and healing.
Okay, I have to say some things to correct the overall record, but in essence everything about Rika's story and the 4-part flow chart of benchmarks is absolutely correct--both the correction and the validation are from personal experience. For the correction, I am uncertain how the WTO riots fomented by the police department in Seattle culminate into the conclusion that the WTO itself was thwarted. It was not. The WTO still functions, is still an international governing body, and STILL has no worker representation anywhere. I, therefore, cannot consider that a thwarting. I was at the WTO protests. I was in the marches. I danced in the intersection of 6th and Pine. I lived on Capitol Hill and watched in horror as the police swarmed the streets; Tukwila cops who brought in to replace the Seattle cops judged to be too familiar with residents of the area shot visually-identifiable Red Cross volunteers with large caliber rubber bullets. I had been injured at work several months earlier and would have been indelibly harmed had I been streetside, so I waited. After nightfall, a line of demarcation between the police, which had surrounded the local police department at the east corner of 12th and E. Pine for blocks, and the protestors was set on E. Pine Street between Broadway and Nagle Place. I found a chaperone who walked with me around the entire police line at a safe distance while I brought out a rosary and prayed for peace. Since no one died that night, I consider that a success. Until the WTO admits union/worker representation, we have not seen success yet. The WTO defers to the International Labor Organization, a division within the United Nations, which was one of the first departments organized within the UN back in 1919. As you might expect, the collective attitude in 1999 on the street before the riots was that the UN through the ILO would be just as effective at representing workers against encroachments of the WTO as the current UN is at confronting genocide in Gaza. Our refusal to disperse based on ILO representation being enough to offset the WTO lead to the police inciting a riot while wearing for the first-time ever military-grade body armour on U.S. soil in a U.S. city.
Ethan, where’s the link for 60$ yrly membership?
Mii~ Anna, thank you so much for this! That $60 link was for our special 200 paid subscriber flash sale, which just ended on Halloween.
You absolutely didn't miss the rebellion, though! We'll definitely be running more special offers in the future as our Phalanx grows. Thank you for being such a core part of our War Council! Your support means the world. Nipah~☆!
I just went with inner circle. Recognized relevance of the date. Thx
Omg I could cry youre the first one!!
Man we gotta get Taylor on board!!! Hahahahahahaa
That’s same one. Clear hx?
Fabulous ‘story’ and histories of the impossible made possible. If I wasn’t an old broken woman living with not even enough means to support myself - I would financially contribute. But I am that ‘imprisoned’ woman and not as brave as ‘the witch’. But I will pray the story is read far and wide and minds are awakened to the prospect for change and healing.