WTO protest photos by Tom Price and David Bacon

Longshore Local 13, Southern California

 

Longshore Local 10, San Francisco Bay Area

 

Warehouse Local 9, Seattle

 

The Inlandboatmen’s Union

 

Longshore Locals 32, Everett and 8, Portland

 

Longshore Local 7, Bellingham

 

30,000 unionists marched through the streets of Seattle, Nov. 30.

 

ILWU rank and file made their voices heard.

 

Longshore Local 10 President Lawrence Thibeaux (left) conducts a chant with his umbrella.

 

Protesters face a line of police.

 

Tear gas fogged downtown Seattle regularly during the WTO meeting.

 

Steelworkers and longshore workers were the largest and most militant union presence at the Seattle demonstrations.

 

Coast Committeeman Ray Ortiz Jr. (center with cap) marched with the ILWU contingent.

 

Protesters blocked WTO delegates from opening ceremonies, locking themselves together inside steel tubes covered in duct tape.

 

ILWU rank and file in the march.

 

Police handcuff demonstrators before hauling them off to the county jail.

 

(Left to right) Local 23 President Roger Boesphlug, International Vice President, Mainland Jim Spinosa, Coast Committeeman Bob McEllrath and International Vice President, Hawaii Leonard Hoshijo march with the ILWU contingent.

 

Many students from the University of Washington turned out for the week’s demonstrations.

 

Clerks Local 52

 

(Left to right) AFL-CIO Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, Teamsters President Jim Hoffa and United Auto Workers President Stephen Yokich on the march.

 

Longshore Local 46, Port Hueneme, California.

 

Workers from France’s La Confédération Générale du Travail (General Workers Confederation) joined the Seattle demonstration.

 

Members of the ILWU International Executive Board join Longshore Locals 12 (North Bend) and 21 (Longview) on the march.

 

Longshore Local 10 BA Richard Mead (second from right) protected longshore jurisdiction as he helped steelworkers throw mock steel I-beams into Puget Sound at their anti-dumping demonstration Wednesday, Dec. 1.

 

(Left to right) Longshore Local 10 President Lawrence Thibeaux, Hawaii IEB member Ernesto Domingo, Hawaii IEB member Teddy Espeleta, International Vice President, Hawaii Leonard Hoshijo, Hawaii IEB member Rocky Sanches and Hawaii IEB member Patrick DePonte.

 

King County Labor Council Secretary-Treasurer Ron Judd (second from left) and ILWU International President Brian McWilliams (third from left with cap) on the march.

 

French farmers came to Seattle to protest the WTO’s policies on agricultural trade and genetically modified foods.

 

ILWU-Canada contingent.