![]() ![]() ![]() “I knew one of the strategies was going to be mass arrest and, I’ll be honest, I was too much of a coward to go. “Here’s where we get to my secret, which is not a secret: I had been arrested before, when I was underage, for something very not political, and I had spent a night in jail,” he says. He knew classmates who’d made the cross-country trip and had contemplated joining them. The highly organized peaceful protest was met by Seattle Police with pepper spray, tear gas, stun grenades and mass arrests-tactics that ultimately led to the resignation of Police Chief Norm Stamper.īack in Pennsylvania, Yapa followed the unfolding events. “I was completely engaged on an intellectual level,” says Yapa, who was a Penn State undergraduate when the “Battle of Seattle” raged downtown during the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999. When tens of thousands of people took to the Seattle streets to protest the globalization of corporate capitalism, Sunil Yapa was there in spirit. ![]()
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