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Friday, February 1, 2002
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The First World Economic Forum Protestors Are Arrested
Yesterday morning at the crack of dawn, 7 ACT UP activists were arrested while dropping two massive banners in protest of the World Economic Forum. The banners demanded that corporations pay for treatment for the tens of thousands of HIV-positive workers they employ in poor countries. Mark Milano was officially the first WEF protester to be arrested this year in New York.
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The World Economic Forum From the Inside Out: As Participants Party, Protestors Prepare. We’ll Have a Debate. Anti-Capitalist Organizer Jaggi Singh, Human Rights Activist and Wef Honoree(!) Van Jones,
The World Economic Forum got its start yesterday morning in a whirl of plenaries, security checkpoints, handshakes, and global luminaries. As delegates continued to stream into their midtown hotels, hundreds who had already arrived began the circuit of panels and workshops. Among them: "A Safer World: How Do We Get There?" "Management Update: Making Hard Choices." And "The Root Cause of Conflict" There was even a panel about artificial intelligence. Something, for everybody, as they say.
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