Alongside these groups, however, there also marched a number of people who represented the particularist-protectionist perspective. For example, Pat Buchanan called on his supporters to join the antiglobalist cause against the WTO. Similarly, hard-edged soldiers of neo-fascism, like the Illinois-based World Church of the Creator' founder Matt Hale, encouraged their followers to come to Seattle and throw a monkey wrench into the gears of the enemy's machine. Still, it is safe to say that the vast majority of the demonstrators who gathered in Seattle advanced universalist criticisms of free-market capitalism and corporate globalization. Their main message was that the WTO had gone too far in setting global rules that supported corporate interests at the expense of developing countries, the poor, the environment, workers, and consumers On the opening day of the meeting, large groups of demonstrators interrupted traffic in the city centre. They managed to block off the main entrances to the convention centre by forming human chains. Many demonstrators who had been trained in nonviolent methods of resistance called for blocking key intersections and entrances in