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FARMERS AND FISHERS DISRUPT LAMY’S MEETING WITH BUSINESS
STOP THE NEW ROUND! COALITION-PHILIPPINES
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FARMERS AND FISHERS DISRUPT LAMY’S MEETING WITH BUSINESS
Lamy not welcome in Manila
MAKATI CITY, PHILIPPINES- Vowing to let Pascal Lamy hear the loud cries of poor sectors, farmers and fishers gate crashed and disrupted a meeting today organized by Philippine business with World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Pascal Lamy.
Around 5 leaders representing major national coalitions and networks campaigning against the WTO, unfurled a banner that reads LAMY GO HOME, after Lamy delivered his address to a crowd of government officials and representatives of business.
The leaders were immediately accosted by hotel security and violently dragged out of the hotel and shoved back to the streets. As the activists were trying to wrestle their banner off the hands of hotel security, loud shouts of Lamy Go Home, Lamy Go Home echoed throughout the hall.
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