(In fact, during most of the Seattle protest, he said, he was ill in bed and never marched in the streets.)

These social networks can be very dynamic, can contain many thousands of members, and can even originate swarms such as the 1999 Seattle protests.

He covered the anti-globalisation Seattle protests of 1999 for the UK's Channel 4 News.

The 1999 Seattle protests, known in anarchist circles as "the battle in Seattle," is now seen as a turning point.

I've read about the Seattle protests.

The Seattle protests were by far the largest actions to have taken place in the United States.

Issue 2 is the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization.

The Seattle protests of 1999 were six years away.

Here are excerpts from two Web sites that had links to organizers of the Seattle protests.

The first manifestation of that was the 1999 Seattle protest, which triggered a global movement.