[Seattle-editorial] FP: Report from Cancun

[Jeremy G Kahn]

yes, I approve.

typist at speakeasy.net wrote:

>I didn't have to read very far on the newswire to know that this was a key one; immediate feedback yay or nay is appreciated.:
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>subtitle:  REPORT FROM CANCUN
>title:  WTO is killing farmers around the world
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>text:  Yesterday in Cancún after hanging a sign that read 'WTO kills farmers' on the security fence keeping ten thousand protesters from reaching the Convention Centre. Climbing up to the top of it and facing the direction of the WTO he cried out, drew out a Swiss Army Knife and stabbing himself in the heart, fell backwards into the arms of the crowd....
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>....'Soon after the Uruguay Round Agreement [of the WTO] was settled, Korean fellow farmers and myself realized that our destinies were out of our hands. We were utterly powerless. We could do nothing but look at the waves that destroyed our lovely rural communities, settlements hundreds of years old. To make myself brave, I have tried to search out the real reasons for and the major forces of those waves. Reaching my conclusion… at the front gate of the WTO, I am crying out my words to you that have been boiling for so long inside my body.' 
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><a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32865&group=webcast">Full story.</a>
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>If I find further stories on WTO on newswire, I will link to this one.  Can someone find a photo or graphic, Gentry?
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>Judy
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