Hundreds protest WTO meetings in Montreal

Several hundred people gathered in downtown Montreal on Sunday to voice their opposition to a World Trade Organization meeting to be held in the city.

The protest is expected to be one of just several demonstrations against the three-day meeting, which begins Monday.

About 25 trade ministers representing a cross-section of WTO members will assess progress and discuss how to persevere with the Doha Development Agenda, named after the mandate for negotiations on a new trade treaty that was agreed to in 2001 in Doha, Qatar.

Bud Freed, who belongs to several anti-poverty groups, travelled to Montreal from Sudbury, Ont., for Sunday's No One Is Illegal protest, which featured anti-capitalist, antiwar and anti-poverty groups.

"We don't have a voice within the actual agreement being signed in our name," Mr. Freed said in an interview.

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you have wings on your feet....

:puke:

Riot, and they're toast.

and abuses it's protesters.

hotels, restaurants and coffee shops during an economic recession and very cold days, when nobody visits DC....

we're all middle-class Americans with charge cards...for the February NY protest, I went on a real big tourbus caravan to NY, Kansas send a chartered jet...there was also a chartered train that pulled in from up north...they should encourage protests as a social event and a business boost....