Home Of Corporate Giants Like Amazon.com, Nintendo Of America (in Its Prime Years At Least), Boeing, Boston Scientific, Starbucks, And Of Course Microsoft, At First Glance Any Entrepreneurs Can Say It Is Some Wall Street Haven. And The Current Buzz About Seattle And Its Economy Is Focused Lately On Microsoft, Its 30,000 Full Time Workers In Puget Sound And Its 8 Million Square Feet Of Office Space. Figures Alone Would Calculate Massive Cash Injections Through Residential And Business Tax. But Why Is Seattle Still Being Riddled With Severe Putbacks And Protests?Beyond That Veil Of Similar Successes, Seattle Has A Noticeable Share Of Mishaps: Severe Economic Recession And Owner - Worker Conflict. And While One May Argue That No State Especially In The US Whose Spirit Of Democracy Is So Strong, Wont Be Impervious To Inner Conflict Of Commerce, Seattles Major Events Are So Defined That It Became A Study On Several Textbooks. Why Is Seattles History So Defined? Are There Any Peculiarities That Gave Its Historical Run Some Sort Of Singularity? You Judge Yourself.Seattle Experienced Its First Protest In 1919. Known As The Seattle General Strike Of 1919, Americans Remember It By Heart As The First Seattle Protest, The Most Nationwide And The Most Organized Strike That Caused Hysteria Not To The Public But To The Government. Even Though The Strike Lasted For Merely Days, So Much Anxiety Ran Through The Ranks Of Political Figures, For The Fear That The Movement Was Brained By Some Foreign Anarchist, Probably Of Communist Background. One Pamphlet In Particular Carry The Revolutionary Title: Russia Did It With Accompanying Proclamation That Reads: The Russians Have Shown You The Way Out The Employing Class Must Be Overthrown.While The Seattle Protest Of 1919 Was Participated Widely And Some Insisted That The Cause Was Successful, And While It Ended So Peacefully Its Goals Are Still Undefined, Much Less Unattained.The Next Major Event Is The Seattle Protest Activity Over The World Trade Organization Of 1999. The Seattle Protest Over The WTO Ministerial Conference Of 1999 Was So Massive That The Negotiation Was Disrupted, Putting Of The WTO Ministerial Conference To Its Next Meeting At Doha, Qatar. The Protest Scale Activity Was The First In The United States History, Even If Estimated Parsimoniously It Would Still Total 40,000 Participants.It Was Well Funded And The Plan Well Ahead Of Time. Organizations, Local, National, And International Have Been Arriving To The Scene Months Ahead. National Organizations Such As The NGO, Labor Unions Like The AFL-CIO, And Even Humanitarian And Religious Organization Like The Jubilee 2000 Are Among The Participants.While There Had Been From None To Minimal Outcries Outside Those Two Stated Above, Seattle Protests When They Happen, Always Manage To Create Tremors That Are Felt Nationwide If Not Worldwide. And Now That Everythings Getting Peaceful Lately, All Eyes Are Now Focused On Microsoft And Several Of Its Legal Issues.
