Globalization is quickly changing the way we work, our costs and standards of living, the control we have over our food and environment, and just as importantly, how others live and work. Nowadays large companies such as Coke, Sony, Microsoft, and BMW are selling, producing, and marketing their products throughout the world. Investors move their money around the globe, seeking maximum profits regardless of where it comes from. With globalization comes the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO was established in 1995 during the Uruguay round of negotiations, which started in 1986 (WTO). The World Trade Organization now has a membership of 146 countries as of April 2003 and is the dominant new global commerce agency (WTO). The WTO has changed the general agreement on tariffs and trade into a global commerce code (WTO). The WTO is also one of the main mechanisms of corporate globalization. Proven by the Seattle battle, the views of poorer countries and the false claims the WTO has made, the WTO has caused more harm than good.
             A broad range of political activists; including labor, environmentalists, pro-democracy, and human rights advocates are critics of the WTO. All of these groups have published articles on what they view to be arguments against the direction of the WTO'S trade practices. Although Seattle State authorities expected some organized protest to the WTO ministerial meeting, few were prepared for the scale of the protest that occurred on November 30, 1999 (BW). The intended peaceful protest went wrong as violence and destruction broke out over the city streets of Seattle (NM). The anti-WTO forces were protesting over the fact that most trade agreements are made in private, under the influence of the multi-national corporations and their allies in the governments of the developed countries (BW). The decisions these people make are at the expense of the farmers, small businesses and poor people in the less develope...