Overseas:
Protests against Cancun agenda succeed

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

Thousands of demonstrators danced, sang and celebrated in Cancun, Mexico after the WTO conference failed to reach any agreement. For four days, they bravely faced thousands of military and police forces deployed by the Mexican government to keep them away from the conference site. Up to 10,000 anti-globalization activists gathered in the area.

On the second day of protest, anti-riot policemen mercilessly truncheoned and teargassed several hundred demonstrators who were trying to break through the ten-kilometer barricade and thick cordon of security forces at the center of the conference site. Two of the protesters were injured.

On September 13, the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) and the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN)-International Chapter launched a "global uprising" against the WTO. That same day, 31 groups and organizations from various parts of the world participated in the "Worldwide Day of Action Against Corporate Globalization and War."

Lee Kyang Hae, 55-year-old leader of the Federation of Farmers and Fishermen of South Korea stabbed himself to death in a grim act of protest. Lee's sacrifice of his own life, according to another Korean peasant leader, reflected the struggle of South Korea's 3.5 million farmers.

21 September 2003
English Edition

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