Sleepless in Seattle: last November the world's trade ministers and corporate suits gathered in the city of Boeing and Bill Gates for another cosy round of free-trade deals …

New Internationalist, April, 2000 by Anita Roddick

The result of Seattle will be a radicalization of the anti-globalization movement. Seattle has made the alternative possible on a global scale -- the devastation wrought by continued globalization is not inevitable. We have really seen that it is possible to turn this `oil tanker' around. But we have only just started pulling on the brakes. It's what happens now that counts. We have created a window of opportunity -- the significance of which is almost unthinkably enormous.

Something else has happened in Seattle. It has become even more clear to me that The Body Shop has been living a protest against the WTO simply by its absolute belief in community trade. We've seen in Nigeria what international corporations have done and we've seen in Ghana what community trade does -- and we know which works. Cooperation for the best, not competition for the cheapest, is a slogan that will carry us forward in this long fight.