Rattled In Seattle

Groups that caught the WTO organizers off guard

JOSE BOVE

BEEF: Lousy, processed food STUNT: Noisy picnic press conference with cheese and French bread in front of McDonald's

RADICAL CHEERLEADERS

BEEF: Globalization makes the world, like, rilly dull STUNT: Crashed the downtown Christmas parade, dancing behind the mayor

SIERRA CLUB

BEEF: WTO ignores animal rights, environmental treaties STUNT: Teamed with United Steelworkers for waterfront Boston WTeaO Party

BLACK-CLAD MESSENGERS

BEEF: New World Order too orderly STUNT: Smashed windows, looted, rioted, wreaked general mayhem

HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE U.S.

BEEF: WTO violates animal rights, e.g., sea turtles caught in shrimp-fishing nets STUNT: Armies in cardboard turtle costumes, human butterflies on stilts

RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK

BEEF: Deforestation STUNT: Dangled from construction crane to unfurl five-story-high anti-WTO banner (they were arrested)

DYKE ACTION

BEEF: Beef--injected with hormones STUNT: Topless in Seattle, the better to bare their convictions

RAGING GRANNIES

BEEF: Big Business bad for little guy STUNT: Senioritas in granny getups performed protest songs to tunes of old standards

RUCKUS SOCIETY

BEEF: WTO = corporate greed STUNTS: Grads of Ruckus "camps" scaled and banner'd Old Navy, paraded as corporate Grim Reapers