In 1988 Medea Benjamin founded [[ Global Exchange]] which has strong ties to the Communist [[Workers World Party]].<ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wwp ATTAC Terror Report]</ref> Benjamin is a pro-Castro activist who lived in Cuba and was a principal organizer of the 1999 Seattle riots in which some 50,000 protesters tried to shut down the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) meetings. Benjamin was a signatory in 2003 to Not in Our Name (NION) along with [[liberal]] activists and icons [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Jim McDermott]], [[Ramsey Clark]], [[Noam Chomsky]], and [[Cynthia McKinney]]. NOIN was started in 2002 by C. Clark Kissinger, a member of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]] (RCP), a [[Maoist]] group calling for the overthrow of the U.S. government and its replacement with a Communist dictatorship. | In 1988 Medea Benjamin founded [[ Global Exchange]] which has strong ties to the Communist [[Workers World Party]].<ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wwp ATTAC Terror Report]</ref> Benjamin is a pro-Castro activist who lived in Cuba and was a principal organizer of the 1999 Seattle riots in which some 50,000 protesters tried to shut down the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) meetings. Benjamin was a signatory in 2003 to Not in Our Name (NION) along with [[liberal]] activists and icons [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Jim McDermott]], [[Ramsey Clark]], [[Noam Chomsky]], and [[Cynthia McKinney]]. NOIN was started in 2002 by C. Clark Kissinger, a member of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]] (RCP), a [[Maoist]] group calling for the overthrow of the U.S. government and its replacement with a Communist dictatorship. |