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People's Caravan campaign against WTO agreements
Staff Reporter
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Travelling roadshows planned to raise public awareness
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CHENNAI:
The People's Caravan, or the Citizens for Justice, Dignity and Food Sovereignty, is busy consolidating popular opinion against attempts to make developing countries sign agreements on agriculture, services and intellectual property rights by the World Trade Organisation.
Three teams will be travelling across Tamil Nadu, beginning December 1 from Kanyakumari, Ramanathapuram and Coimbatore, to hold public meetings in all districts of the State, said C. Nicholas, state convenor, at a press conference on Thursday.
Ahead of the Sixth Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong of the World Trade Organisation on December 13, the People's Caravan is trying to draw together some 30 organisations including trade unions, organisations working with women, dalits and adivasis, and academicians for the meetings.
The leadership of the movement is not trying to involve any political parties, Mr. Nicholas said.
Final meeting
The final meeting at Chennai is scheduled for December 10, International Human Rights Day.
"We are trying to reclaim the day from the ritual it has become to make it a day to demand that fundamental rights are not plucked away. We expect at least 20,000 people to attend," he said.
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