REMINDER - Protest Against WTO
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 8:43 am
Press Release: Global Peace And Justice Auckland
REMINDER - Protest Against WTO
A protest has been
organised for lunchtime today to mark the opening of the WTO
Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong.
The protest will be
held outside the Fonterra building, Princes Street, Auckland
(just along from the University) from 12noon to 2pm.
Fonterra and the New Zealand government are the biggest
pushers of so-called free trade.
However if the WTO
meeting is “successful” it will have serious consequences
for New Zealand workers and their families as well as
devastating effects for the world’s poor.
GPJA will
present a letter to Fonterra as part of today’s protest.
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