where are you heading after Miami?
I couldn’t quite see the face of the other person from my seat, but it sounded like a female, perhaps in
her fifties. She answered, “Miami… Savannah, then Hong Kong after that… how about you?”
“Same here… the Savannah, then the WTO again. This FTAA… it should be a rumble,” answered the
twenty year old male.
This conversation probably would not have meant much to the casual observer, and perhaps it was an
innocent discourse between two worldly travelers. However, I knew exactly what they were referring
to. Miami was the site of the FTAA conference in November, and Sea Island, Georgia (adjacent to
Savannah) was the site of the G-8 Summit in June 2004. Hong Kong was to be the site of the WTO