Philippines • Actions against the WTO reports

• September 3: KMP Rally in front of the Congress office urging the Congressional Representatives to « Abrogate GATT! – WTO OUT of Agriculture!»
• September 4: Demonstration in Manila ( reuters)
• September 7: Protest- Rally in front of the US Embassy
• September 10: Mobilization at the US-Embassy with the People’s Campout Against WTO. However, during a simultaneous protests/activities nationwide on September 10, we expect more than twenty thousand participants.
• September 10: Manila • Public Forum on the WTO, by the indigenous peoples under the Cordillera Peoples' Alliance
• September 10: Manila • Demonstration against the WTO
• September 10: Philippine police block anti-WTO protest ( abc)
• September 10: Baguio City, Northern Luzon • Protest action by the indigenous people and other sectors
• September 12: Manila, Cebu and, Davao • National call to stop the new WTO round: simultaneous multi-sectoral mobilizations BIG MOBILIZATION!
• September 13: Manila • In the morning, a Forum on TRIPS and WTO at the La Consolacion College (an exclusive school for girls). This is in cooperation with the National Service and Training Program of the school.
• September 13: Manila • Multi-sectoral rally against imperialist globalization in front of the US embassy.
• REPORTS
  • Thousands march in Manila against WTO, corporate globalization, and war (13/9/2003)
  • 8,000 march in Manila as WTO talks bog down in Cancun (13/9/2003)
  • Anti-WTO Protest action in Manila (13/9/2003)
  • Student Action against the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Cancun, Mexico (11/9/2003)

Contact (among others): The Peasant Movement of the Philippines or Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), National Federation of Fisherfolk Organizations or (Pamalakaya), National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), National Federation of Peasant Women (Amihan), Anakpawis (Toiling Masses), Kilusang Mayo Uno and the COURAGE, Stop the New Round Coalition! (SNR), Focus on the Global South

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