西雅图是一个年轻的城市，却有着悠久的抗议历史

由于警察暴行和种族不公，本周，西雅图的大规模抗议活动再次吸引了全国的目光，西雅图市中心附近的几个街区发生暴力冲突，警察被迫从警局撤离。抗议者将占领这个地区并命名为“国会山自治区”，要求进行广泛的改革。特朗普称他们为无政府主义占领者，并称将会发出反击。其实西雅图这座城市的抗议的历史已经有100多年了，从第一次世界大战前的大规模劳工罢工运动到1999年世贸组织的大规模贸易抗议。当地作家和历史学家克努特·伯格(Knute Berger)说这里的大规模示威活动一直是全国性的大新闻。几十年来，西雅图一直是动乱的代名词，特别是对社会变革的批评者来说，伯格说。“早在30年代，我们就被认为是‘苏维埃的西雅图。’

Large protests in Seattle over police brutality and racial injustice have again caught the nation’s eye. Demonstrators this week staked out several blocks near downtown Seattle after officers withdrew from a police station following violent confrontations. They named it the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” demanded broad reforms and have faced blowback from President Donald Trump, who called them anarchist occupiers. Similar descriptions of Seattle protests have been used for more than 100 years. “Seattle went from log cabin to the Space Needle in a very short period of time,” said Knute Berger, a local writer and historian. Large demonstrations here have been national news since the Wobblies — the Industrial Workers of the World labor union — were active in the area around World War I, Berger said. For decades, Seattle has often been synonymous with unrest, especially for critics of social change, Berger said. “Back in the ’30s, we were considered ‘the Soviet of Seattle.’ ”  source

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