20 October 2005

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.

Photographs by Joseph Purugganan.

Korean farmer recalls and draws inspiration from Lee Kyung Hae's struggle in Cancun at the WTO minsterial meeting in Hong Kong in December.	"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.