oleh:Mark Weisbrot* (Artikel ini didistribusikan pada surat kabar oleh Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services.)“Tuhan memberi saya uang,” demikian pernyataan John D. Rockefeller dengan gaya pongah yang menjadi...
Read Moreoleh Stuart Hodgkinson* ni adalah seruan dari kaum tani kepada kaum buruh sejalan dengan semakin mendekatnya Pertemuan Tingkat Menteri ke-5 WTO di Cancun, Mexico, 10-14 September. Namun, masyarakat sipil masih butuh...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello, In dramatic fashion, the World Trade Organization’s Fifth Ministerial collapsed today. Irreconcilable differences among developed and developing countries put the finishing touches to a 1-1/2...
Read MoreSEPTEMBER 13 – Around 8,000 farmers, fishers, laborers, students, urban poor, small producers and NGO workers from the Stop the New Round! Coalition marched through downtown Manila yesterday to call on the Philippine...
Read MoreBy Raghav Narsalay For a change, pressure on the EU and the US is growing The pressure on the EU and the US is growing as they see increasing number of developing countries indirectly supporting the G-22 (group of...
Read MoreBy Raghav Narsalay in CancunA Whiff of fresh air… The general impression that one got from the happenings during the second day is that the developing countries have courageously postured on agriculture and...
Read MoreBy Shalmali Guttal Bangalore, September 10, 2003. Over 35,000 farmers from across Karnataka State converged in Bangalore- -the state capital–today to protest the start of the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the World...
Read MorePhoto Caption: Korean Farmers demonstrating in Cancun; Photo Courtesy: Indymedia.org (chickpea) Bangkok, 11 September — Farmers are calling for a halt to agriculture negotiations following the suicide of a Korean...
Read MoreBy Peter RossetCanc๚n: The messages from Subcomandante Marcos and Comandantes Esther and David of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) this morning fell like verbal bombshells on the assembled crowd in...
Read Moreby Jessica Reyes-CantosChief of StaffRep. Del R. de Guzman, Lone District, Marikina city The footwear industry should consider itself “lucky” for being one of the few sectors where its products’ rate of duty...
Read MoreBy TambuyogDevelopmentCenter, September 2003 IN PRINCIPLE, fisheries production and trade should enhance resource sustainability and food security for fisher-producers, in accordance with the mandate of the 1987 Philippine...
Read MoreOfficial Stop the New Round! Coalition Statement, September 9, 2003Stop the new WTO round! Caravan and SNR! Cancun monitor launched to defend Philippine interest in trade talksOn Wednesday, September 10, 10 a.m. in Cancun,...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard BANGKOK, 9 September — More than 3,000 people took to the streets of central Bangkok this morning kicking off the wave of global protests against the WTO by marching on the embassies of the EU...
Read MoreAileen Kwa* GENEVA, August 2003 — THE WTO perpetrates a subtle and pervasive form of re-colonisation and warfare. It calls on members to relinquish their sovereign rights and policy freedom (by constraining...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard* BANGKOK, 5 Sept. — AS Cancun approaches, it is timely to consider what can be learned from the access to drugs campaign launched in the lead-up 2001 WTO ministerial and which bore its bitter fruit...
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