Puppets and protests galore at the World Trade Organization’s Cancún ministerial. |
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By Dustin Ross and Victor Tan Chen / Cancún, Mexico
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Monday, October 27, 2003 |
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During the second week of September, delegates from across the globe descended on Cancún, Mexico, to take part in the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
At the same time, thousands of uninvited guests also flocked to Cancún to demonstrate against global capitalism and the alleged corporate bias of the WTO. The protesters on the street were, for the most part, prevented from coming anywhere near the convention center — several steel-mesh barricades, hundreds of Mexican federal police, and a few naval destroyers made sure of that. Nevertheless, the protesters still managed to put on a wide variety of alternative events, including a campesino forum and a fair trade conference. And a few activists even managed to slip inside the Zone and inject their message of defiance into the ministerial chambers.
Dustin Ross and Victor Tan Chen of InTheFray Magazine were in Cancún to report on the alternatives alive on the street and in the convention halls. What follows is a visual essay of photographs from many of these events. Click above to view it." |
