Delegates to WTO ministerial conference welcomed by singing campaigners

Date: 30 November 2009

The WTO ministerial conference officially opened this afternoon at 3pm (2pm UK time) and as delegates from around the world were entering into the open plenary session, they were welcomed by singing trade campaigners from the Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network – a network of organisations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting the current model of corporate globalisation embodied in the global trading system. The World Development Movement is a member of OWINFS and WDM trade campaigner Heidi Chow was also part of the group of singing activists. Their song was based on the tune of jingle bells and started with “no new round, turn around, the world has had enough…”

OWINFS were keen to ensure that the delegates were aware of the global protest against the WTO and the Doha round.