Rattled In Seattle

By Val Castronovo, Chen Dan, Daniel S. Levy, Ellin Martens, Julie Rawe, Chris Taylor and Josh Tyrangiel

Groups that caught the WTO organizers off guard

JOSE BOVE

BEEF: Lousy, processed food STUNT: Noisy picnic press conference with cheese and French bread in front of McDonald's

RADICAL CHEERLEADERS

BEEF: Globalization makes the world, like, rilly dull STUNT: Crashed the downtown Christmas parade, dancing behind the mayor

SIERRA CLUB

BEEF: WTO ignores animal rights, environmental treaties STUNT: Teamed with United Steelworkers for waterfront Boston WTeaO Party

BLACK-CLAD MESSENGERS

BEEF: New World Order too orderly STUNT: Smashed windows, looted, rioted, wreaked general mayhem

HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE U.S.

BEEF: WTO violates animal rights, e.g., sea turtles caught in shrimp-fishing nets STUNT: Armies in cardboard turtle costumes, human butterflies on stilts

RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK

BEEF: Deforestation STUNT: Dangled from construction crane to unfurl five-story-high anti-WTO banner (they were arrested)

DYKE ACTION

BEEF: Beef--injected with hormones STUNT: Topless in Seattle, the better to bare their convictions

RAGING GRANNIES

BEEF: Big Business bad for little guy STUNT: Senioritas in granny getups performed protest songs to tunes of old standards

RUCKUS SOCIETY

BEEF: WTO = corporate greed STUNTS: Grads of Ruckus "camps" scaled and banner'd Old Navy, paraded as corporate Grim Reapers