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Photos from the WTO Protests in Hong Kong, Day 2 
The Korean farmers performed cultural dances and drummed outside the department store. Speakers thanked Hong Kong residents for their warmth and hospitality in spite of the unfavorable press coverage that had been circulating about Korean protesters....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 1:54pm PST
Photos from the WTO Protests in Hong Kong, Day 2 
A march and a full day of rallies, part of the People’s Action Week on WTO, continued at Victoria Park on the second day of the Sixth Ministerial WTO conference in Hong Kong....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 1:35pm PST
WTO MC6, Day 2: Face-Off at the Barricades, Stand-Off at the Summit Hong Kong, December 14- In the morning four hundred people participated in a “Consulate Hopping” protest march against the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) and the privatization of basic services. The procession wound through the Admiralty and Wan Chai districts and split into smaller groups targeting the Indonesian, Phillipine, Nepali, Sri Lankan, Thai and US consulates....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 12:46pm PST
WTO 6, Day 1: Just The Beginning On Tuesday, the opening day of the Sixth Ministerial WTO conference,
delegates braced for a new round of disagreements, while the protests
outside welcomed the arrival of the Korean delegation which included 1,500
farmers. Internationally, farmers and fisherfolk are among those most
severely affected by the WTO’s neoliberal agenda....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 11:57am PST
wto and biodiversity: a brief interview with Simone Lovera from Friends of the Earth (audio/mpeg 6.4MB) Simone Lovera of Friends of the Earth International explains how the WTO effects biodiversity at the WTO ministerial in Hong Kong....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 9:19am PST
Protests Continue at WTO Conference as Talks Stall Over Agricultural Trade The World Trade Organization has entered its second day of its ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. South Koreans have led attempts to reach the convention center by swimming across Hong Kong Bay. They have been blocked off by heavily armed police barricades and beaten back by riot police with pepper spray and batons. This occurs as the United States and the European Union clashed over food aid to poor countries. We speak with Anuradha Mittal, an expert on world and trade issues in Hong Kong....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 7:14am PST
The Globalization Game: What's at Play at the WTO By LAURA CARLSEN...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 6:57am PST
World Trade Organization Protests in Hong Kong: Day 1, page 6 
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Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 11:16am PST
World Trade Organization Protests in Hong Kong: Day 1, page 5 
Delegates from the Korean Peasants’ League dove into the bay in droves, leaving a bewildered audience behind them, cheering and clapping as the farmers—two hundred in total—splashed and bobbed in the water....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 11:04am PST
World Trade Organization Protests in Hong Kong: Day 1, page 4 
After the protest reached its planned destination, HKPA marshals, media and activists milled about the heavily barricaded, designated protest “cage,” ducking miles of orange police tape....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:53am PST
World Trade Organization Protests in Hong Kong: Day 1, page 3 
Marching...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:46am PST
World Trade Organization Protests in Hong Kong: Day 1, page 2 
WTO conference, day 1, protest march (page 2)...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:39am PST
World Trade Organization Protests in Hong Kong: Day 1, page 1 
On Tuesday, the opening day of the Sixth Ministerial WTO conference, delegates braced for a new round of disagreements, while the protests outside welcomed the arrival of the Korean delegation which included 1,500 farmers. Internationally, farmers and fisherfolk are among those most severely affected by the WTO’s neoliberal agenda....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:30am PST
World Trade Organization Protests in Hong Kong: Day 1 
On Tuesday, the opening day of the Sixth Ministerial WTO conference, delegates braced for a new round of disagreements, while the protests outside welcomed the arrival of the Korean delegation which included 1,500 farmers. Internationally, farmers and fisherfolk are among those most severely affected by the WTO’s neoliberal agenda....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:17am PST
PEACEFUL DIRECT ACTION VIOLENTLY OPPRESSED BY HK MEDIA. Journalists are meant to be passive observers not instigators of violence – yet tonight I was assaulted by staff from Hong Kong’s two major TV news broadcasters, ATV and TVB....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 6:37am PST
Globalize Hope: Derailing the WTO in Hong Kong Ten years after is was spawned, the World Trade Organization is gathering in Hong Kong from December 13th –18th. Thousands of politicians, corporate executives and media gather behind walls of barricades in another attempt to hammer out agreements to liberalize global trade while the streets fill with representatives of East Asian and global social movements who are committed to derailing the WTO in Hong Kong, and telling their own stories of how the WTO is leading to the economic, cultural ...
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 6:09pm PST
First Day of WTO Protests-Thousands March in Hong Kong For the report from the UK's Telegraph web site, click the URL below:...
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 1:29pm PST
Free Trade Endangers Jobs Worldwide Free trade in agriculture means export orientation and mass production instead of giving priority to food security and qualitatively high-grade regional food production....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 10:39am PST
WTO trade talks head for a stalemate The ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which starts in Hong Kong tomorrow, is shaping up as a last-ditch effort to save the so-called Doha round of trade liberalisation. Billed as a “development” round when it was launched in 2002, aimed at lifting world economic growth and the position of poorer countries, the Doha process has been bogged down in a series of conflicts, especially over subsidies and tariffs on agriculture....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 11:05pm PST
Raids Target Migrant Workers as WTO Summit Nears On Saturday, December 10, three days before the 6th Ministerial World Trade Organization summit, Hong Kong police raided the offices of the Indonesian Migrant Worker's Union (IMWU). Although no one was injured or taken away, activists see the raid as part of a general build-up of state repression on activists....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 5:48pm PST
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