Word: niketown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that much last week. The chaos that surrounded them did. In this moment of triumphant capitalism, of planetary cash flows and a priapic Dow, all the second thoughts and outright furies about the global economy collected on the streets of downtown Seattle and crashed through the windows of NikeTown. After two days of uproar scented with tear gas and pepper spray, Americans may never again think the same way about free trade and what it costs...
...under-25ers from San Francisco to Vancouver who spent months learning nonviolent civil disobedience from groups like the Ruckus Society and the Direct Action Network. "The WTO," notes Ruckus Society coordinator Han Shan, "gave us home-field advantage by coming to Seattle." The '98 trashing of a Eugene, Ore., NikeTown was an informal dry run for last week's mayhem, some of whose perpetrators call themselves the Eugene Brickthrowers Local 666. "Their goal is to take things to the furthest edge of acceptability," says Seattle activist Dana Schuerholz of the Eugene radicals, "to get their message out by literally smashing...
Especially when there isn't one. As it turned out, Moore's friend had just returned from a special Nike outlet in Marina del Rey. Unlike your average NikeTown, this facility gives admission by pass only. And you can't get a pass unless you're tight with an affable young promotions manager named Tracy Hardy-Gray, known industrywide as "Tracy the Nike Lady...
...list, you have a standing invitation to visit her L.A. emporium, where you'll be treated with all the respect due a busy insider--including the assistance of a personal shopper. While the exterior of the building is unmarked, inside it is set up like a real NikeTown--complete with basketball court. As you make your way past the displays, you have only to point at gear and it's loaded into your shopping cart. Best of all, you're hanging with your own crowd: moguls, actors and sports stars--all-out exercising one of the most cherished prerogatives...
However, Megan F. Judge, the events coordinator for the NikeTown store, said she "honestly believed" the accusations against Nike were false...