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by WTO Watcher
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 at 5:52 PM
Around 100 trade activists held a picket outside the WTO headquarters in Geneva yesterday to dramatize peoples' opposition to the WTO and the conclusion of a new trade deal. The mobilization capped what turned out to be an uneventful opening day meeting of the General Council.
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Members of via campesina, the global network of peasants join other trade activitsts in a picket oustside the WTO.
Photograph by Joseph Purugganan.
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by WTO Watcher
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 at 5:52 PM
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"We do not want your development!" Cambodian trade activist Ros Sukunthy delivers an emotional speech in front of the WTO Headquarters. Newly acceeded least developed countries like Cambodia do not really have the choice nor the power to voice its opposition to the WTo and its liberalization agenda.
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by WTO Watcher
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 at 5:52 PM
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"We will not be victims of WTO's empty promises! Ruperto Aleroza of the Kilusang Mangingisda (fisherfolk movement)expresses the strong oppositon of fisherfolks in the Philippines against the NAMA and the moves to liberalize fisheries in the WTO.
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by WTO Watcher
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 at 5:52 PM
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In Geneva, they shout RESISTANCE!
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by WTO Watcher
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 at 5:52 PM
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Korean farmer recalls and draws inspiration from Lee Kyung Hae's struggle in Cancun at the WTO minsterial meeting in Hong Kong in December.
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