Migrants say Junk WTO! Kong Yee Sai Mau!
Migrant workers, under the banner of the AMCB, have been consistent in our stance against globalization and its policies in Hong Kong and in our home countries.
AMCB’s commitment to the anti-globalization struggle of the Hong Kong peoples can be traced back to 1997 when it joined trade unions, labor groups, student activists and women’s organizations in protesting the IMF-World Bank meeting. Interestingly, this meeting was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) – the same venue where the MC6 will meet though they will be in the new wing.
As early as September last year, AMCB together with the Pesticide Action Network – Asia Pacific (PAN-AP) and the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) jointly organized the Hong Kong leg of the Peoples’ Caravan for Food Sovereignty. The activities included a conference on WTO and Migration and public speaking at a huge rally organized by the Asosiasi Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (ATKI), an active member of the AMCB. More than 300 migrant workers, students and migrant advocates attended the conference where Irene Fernandez of Tenaganita and PAN-AP, Tony Tujan of APRN and Ibon, and Connie Ragalado of MIGRANTE International were resource persons.
Since the founding of the HKPA, the AMCB and all its affiliates have been very active in its participation in all centralized activities. From the International Labor Day celebration in May 1st to the annual July 1st Hong Kong peoples protest; AMCB marched with our local counterparts.
The “Three Monkeys” was first introduced in the HKPA’s community drive event in Causeway Bay last July 17. The “Three Monkeys” – representative of the WTO, big businesses and governments that implement neoliberal globalization policies – was a short cultural presentation that, in a very simple form, showed the impacts of WTO and globalization to the people.
The following week, July 24, AMCB mobilized its members to join the protest march from Hongkong Bank to the Central Government Office (CGO) to coincide with the WTO Council Meeting in Geneva.
On September 10, members of AMCB joined the HKPA in a candlelight vigil to commemorate the sacrifice of Lee Kyung Hae, the Korean peasant leader who killed himself in protest of the WTO in Cancun, Mexico and to reaffirm the people’s commitment to end the tragedies brought about by the neoliberal policies of the WTO.
Last October 1, AMCB members marched with the local groups to protest the privatization program of the HKSAR government. Most recently in October 16, AMCB stood side-by-side with our local brothers and sisters in a protest action during the visit of Pascal Lamy, WTO Director General, at the Hong Kong University.
Migrant workers, under the banner of the AMCB, have been consistent in our stance against globalization and its policies in Hong Kong and in our home countries.AMCB’s commitment to the anti-globalization struggle of the Hong Kong peoples can be traced back to 1997 when it joined trade unions, labor groups, student activists and women’s organizations in protesting the IMF-World Bank meeting. Interestingly, this meeting was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) – the same venue where the MC6 will meet though they will be in the new wing.
As early as September last year, AMCB together with the Pesticide Action Network – Asia Pacific (PAN-AP) and the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) jointly organized the Hong Kong leg of the Peoples’ Caravan for Food Sovereignty. The activities included a conference on WTO and Migration and public speaking at a huge rally organized by the Asosiasi Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (ATKI), an active member of the AMCB. More than 300 migrant workers, students and migrant advocates attended the conference where Irene Fernandez of Tenaganita and PAN-AP, Tony Tujan of APRN and Ibon, and Connie Ragalado of MIGRANTE International were resource persons.
Since the founding of the HKPA, the AMCB and all its affiliates have been very active in its participation in all centralized activities. From the International Labor Day celebration in May 1st to the annual July 1st Hong Kong peoples protest; AMCB marched with our local counterparts.The “Three Monkeys” was first introduced in the HKPA’s community drive event in Causeway Bay last July 17. The “Three Monkeys” – representative of the WTO, big businesses and governments that implement neoliberal globalization policies – was a short cultural presentation that, in a very simple form, showed the impacts of WTO and globalization to the people.
The following week, July 24, AMCB mobilized its members to join the protest march from Hongkong Bank to the Central Government Office (CGO) to coincide with the WTO Council Meeting in Geneva.
On September 10, members of AMCB joined the HKPA in a candlelight vigil to commemorate the sacrifice of Lee Kyung Hae, the Korean peasant leader who killed himself in protest of the WTO in Cancun, Mexico and to reaffirm the people’s commitment to end the tragedies brought about by the neoliberal policies of the WTO.Last October 1, AMCB members marched with the local groups to protest the privatization program of the HKSAR government. Most recently in October 16, AMCB stood side-by-side with our local brothers and sisters in a protest action during the visit of Pascal Lamy, WTO Director General, at the Hong Kong University.
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