China
Content about workers' struggles and events in China.
Chinese riot over detention of activist
Angry villagers in China's Shandong province have rioted in support of a blind activist who has been under house arrest for campaigning against forced sterilisations and abortions.
Chen Guangcheng, a peasant blind since birth who taught himself the law initially to fight for disabled rights, last year began exposing official abuse of the one-child policy. The abuse included making women have abortions, sometimes as late as seven or eight months into their pregnancies, then making them undergo sterilisation.
Hong Kong Phooey - WTO conference ends with the usual promises
After its Hong Kong summit, at which thousands of people demonstrated and fought with riot police SchNEWS examines the differences between the WTO’s words and its practices.
“The rhetoric of the WTO [World Trade Organisation] may be free trade, but its key agreements promote corporate monopoly.” - Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
On tap at the WTO: Private water
The focus of the Hong Kong round for rich western nations is to squeeze every drop of money they can by privatising public services. When it comes to water systems, that can be deadly.
Hong Kong – Activists gathered here say that no issue highlights the tension between the human values they advocate and the economic logic of the legion of corporate globalizers that have descended on this city more clearly than water.
Hong Kong: Hundreds fight police against global trade rules
Thousands demonstrated in Hong Kong against the conference of the World Trade Organisation.
Hundreds of people fought police, who used pepper spray and tear gas.
See BBC news for pictures:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4537666.stm
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