SEATTLE (AP) -- A crowd of about 100 demonstrators marched through the city's retail core Sunday in solidarity with the thousands of protesters in the nation's capital for the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund.
The crowd chanted and marched with giant puppets. But no property damage or incidents of violence were reported, unlike in the protests accompanying last fall's World Trade Organization meeting here.Speakers decried what they called the ill effects of increasing economic globalization at a rally at Westlake Plaza near the city center, and some protesters chanted for the nearby Niketown superstore to be shut down.
Washington D.C. police estimated as many as 10,000 protesters took to the streets Sunday to protest the IMF meeting there. Some were tear gassed, in scenes reminiscent of the Seattle WTO meeting, where anarchists and others did some $2.5 million in property damage and trade delegates were locked out of opening ceremonies.
Most delegates were able to attend the IMF meeting. Sunday. The meeting, and protests, were to continue Monday in Washington D.C. as well as Seattle.