Hacktivists launch virtual demo while streets blocked
News A group of demonstrators in the UK are organising a "virtual sit-in" against the trade group Free Trade Area of Americas (FTAA) in protest of its promotion of economic globalisation and defiance of its attempts to hamper street protests.
[April 20, 2001, 16:38]
Trade agreement has domain name dispute language
News The FTAA agreement aims to reduce barriers and tariffs in the Western Hemisphere by creating one set of trade rules for the 34 countries in North and South America, except Cuba. However, Icann spokeswoman Mary Hewitt said her group did not push for...
[July 9, 2001, 12:15]
WTO boss rails against 'dot-com types'
News In April, a group of UK demonstrators organised a "virtual sit-in" against the trade group Free Trade Area of Americas (FTAA) in protest of its promotion of economic globalisation and defiance of its attempts to hamper street protests.
[July 9, 2001, 16:32]
May Day hysteria unfounded, say activists
News However, RTMark spokesperson Frank Guerrero said that all that is being planned is a cyberboycott, to be launched on 1 May: "It's not quite as flashy as a virtual sit-in [as staged by the e-hippie collective during the FTAA protests in Quebec...
[April 30, 2001, 14:38]
