I’m currently watching The Whole World was Watching, the way-too-short KCTS doc about the WTO protests that began 10 years ago today. The videomakers are doing a good job of getting in the underlying political/economic issues behind the big protests and the bigger law-enforcement crackdown.

Despite the police overreaction, I’m proud of what happened in Seattle back then.

In retrospect, though, the World Trade Organization was and is merely one manifestation of the Big-Big Money usurping control of the world from sovereign governments. That process continued with the wars-for-oil, the assault on workers’ rights, the massive concentration of wealth here and in other countries, and, yes, the funny-money shenanigans whose fallout continues to affect us all.

Turning all that around will take a helluva lot more than some turtle costumes and Subcommendante Marcos face masks.