When nonviolence confronted the World Trade Organization in the streets of Seattle on November 30, 1999, nonviolence won. In the year that followed, protests against corporate-dominated globalization spread around the world from Seattle to Washington, DC, and from Vancouver, Canada, to Davos in Switzerland to Prague, focusing attention on a small group of powerful institutions that have written and enforced the rules for the world economy for five decades. Those rules favor corporate profit over human needs, at the tragic price of impoverishing millions of people worldwide.