UK WTO Hong Kong 2005 Newswire Archive
Stop the WTO Negotiations! Save Jobs!
20-12-2005 14:35
After ten years under the WTO, unemployment has increased everywhere in the world.. Many transnational businesses try to distance themselves from responsibility for working conditions by outsourcing work.. Joy to the world, not only to the superrich!Take Action: 100's of protesters still detained in Hong Kong
20-12-2005 11:15
Hundreds of anti-WTO protesters are still detained in Hong Kong after December 17-18 protests. This is a call for action to write a letter demanding that the people be released.Kong Yee Sai Mau (No to WTO): The Battle of Hong Kong
19-12-2005 22:15
Sat Dec 17, Hong Kong—It’s 1:30 am in Hong Kong. We have just returned to the house after being in the Hong Kong streets all afternoon and evening in the most intense street battle that we have ever seen. We are taking turns showering the teargas and pepper spray off as we write this up. Farmers, workers, women’s organizations, fisher folk, Hong Kong youth, migrants and other movement people from Korea, across Asia and around the world marched on, broke through several police lines to less than a block from the site of the WTO conference center and laid siege to it until we were dispersed with teargas and mass arrests tonight.Police brutality and inhumane treatment of prisoners at WTO summit in Hong Kong
19-12-2005 10:22
The brutality and inhuman treatment of the protestors against theWorld Trade Organisation (WTO) by the Hong Kong police comes as a shock and must immediately be stopped.
NO-WTO! REPORT OF READING SOLIDARITY DEMO:
18-12-2005 16:54
In Reading last night, around 20-30 anti-capitalists, environmentalists, students and others marched from the Reading International Solidarity Centre, to make a free cafe and anti-World Trade Organisation demonstration outside Starbucks in the town centre. Protesters moved quickly into the Oracle Riverside - busy private land on both sides of the canal which is lined with posh restaurants, bars and the cinema between the huge Oracle shopping center and it's multi-story carpark.Migrant Workers Strike against Poverty Wages and WTO
17-12-2005 05:55
SuperSizeMyPay.Com campaign co-ordinator, Simon Oosterman said that the strike was a part of international protests against the meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Hong Kong and the global fight for economic justice.
Inspiring photos from the WTO summit in Hong Kong
16-12-2005 23:30
Fisherfolks Murdered By Drowning, Suspect 6th WTO
15-12-2005 15:38
HONGKONG-- A proposal of rich countries to open the markets of less developed nations to their non-agricultural products like fish, the Philippines' 1.8 million small fishermen-and Southeast Asia's 12 million-could drown in a sea of imports from the likes of China and Japan.
Insurgent Zombies Occupy Paris Supermarket in WTO Protest
15-12-2005 10:16
NO-WTO: DEMO SAT 17TH DEC, READING.
14-12-2005 23:23
RECLAIM OUR LIVES - NO WTO!SAT 17TH DECEMBER, 8PM, THE ORACLE RIVERSIDE, READING TOWN CENTRE.
EAT, DRINK, DEMONSTRATE...
...AN EVENT TO COINCIDE WITH THE WTO SUMMIT IN HONG KONG, 14TH - 18TH DECEMBER.
WTO Protests – You Cannot Speak If You Wear Too Little
14-12-2005 19:03
WTO - HK05 - Images of Resistance
14-12-2005 17:30
WTO Protests in Hong Kong - Day One report
14-12-2005 04:20
Protestors gathered last night at the Wan Chai loading bay near the Sports Centre last night, police in riot gear outnumbered demonstrators almost 2-1.Report on the WTO Conference Day One Protect Actions
13-12-2005 21:40
Source: InMedia HK
http://www.inmediahk.net/public/article?item_id=84236&group_
A list of sites with news on the WTO protests. (with links)
13-12-2005 18:44
Its not comprehensive but there is alot thereSites with reports and actions as well as some background info
anti wto HK site
13-12-2005 17:01
Philipinos protest WTO
13-12-2005 16:57
" It is not and has never been an institution that had the betterment of the working peoples' welfare as its agenda..." WTO disputed in Philippine Congress. (Dec 6)
Resist! Spokesperson and Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casino today questioned in Congress the Philippines' continuing membership in the the World Trade Organization (WTO). "The W TO is not by any stretch of the imagination an estbalished or elected government; but from the way it conduct itself, it has become the most powerful pseudo-legislative and judicial body in the world," he said.
KONG YEE SAI MAU! - Protest against the WTO!
13-12-2005 14:28
Reports direct from WTO protests.Globalise Resistance are in Hong Kong and posting
PEACEFUL DIRECT ACTION VIOLENTLY OPPRESSED BY HK MEDIA.
13-12-2005 13:53
Free Trade Endangers Jobs Worldwide
12-12-2005 18:26
Free trade in agriculture means export orientation and mass production instead of giving priority to food security and qualitatively high-grade regional food production.