WTO Geneva Ministerial meeting 2009

 

 

Council of Canadians vice-chair Leo Broderick and trade campaigner Stuart Trew were in Geneva participating in counter-ministerial events and raising concerns about the impacts of the WTO agenda from November 30 to December 2, 2009.

 

 

Blog posts by Stuart Trew, Trade Campaigner for the Council of Canadians, from Geneva:

• Can’t buy me seeds - WTO corporate criminal tour hits big agra
• Pascal Lamy’s shock therapy for the WTO
• 5,000 march through Geneva against the WTO
• “Who wants to do the possible?” asks Martin Khor at Our World Is Not For Sale strategy session in Geneva

OWINFS statement: Abandon Doha - Confront the Crisis (PDF 56KB)

Link to the WTO Geneva international demonstration webpage. Hundreds of representatives of grassroots movements from all over the world were in Geneva and then in Copenhagen November 2009 to demand a radical change of direction.

VIDEO: Compilation of the anti-WTO rally and march through Geneva, by Stuart Trew, Trade Campaigner at the Council of Canadians, November 28, 2009.

Materials

Behind the July Failure of the WTO Talks on Doha - Martin Khor, Director of Third World Network

Financial Instability and the GATS Negotiations, by Ellen Gould

As pressure builds for increased GATS commitments, particularly in financial services, a new paper by CCPA research associate Ellen Gould demonstrates how GATS-driven deregulation has contributed to the current financial crisis and how deeper GATS commitments will only darken the clouds hanging over the global economy. The complete paper is available at www.policyalternatives.ca