{"id":702,"date":"2013-01-20T17:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T01:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=702"},"modified":"2014-05-27T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:02:21","slug":"qatar-wto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/qatar-wto\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar WTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>by Kay Thode <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WTO has met again, this time Qatar.<br \/>\nThe Persian Gulf\u2019s an unlikely place\u2014it\u2019s quite bizarre.<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t want protesters to have their say.<br \/>\nThey chose a site that is far, far away,<br \/>\nBut they got our message: We demand fair trade!<\/p>\n<p>Third World countries are put on the spot\u2014what else is new?<br \/>\nThey want more markets and balance of power, wouldn\u2019t you?<br \/>\nAgriculture and textiles were pulled from the talks;<br \/>\nThose critical matters would be deadlocked.<br \/>\nSo much for free trade: Do it our way or not!<\/p>\n<p>The message from Brussels and Washington is liberalize,<br \/>\nWhile we in the West protect our own and subsidize.<br \/>\nDirty water, poverty, pricey drugs<br \/>\nShould no longer be sanctioned and swept under rugs.<br \/>\nGive us fair trade, union made! Share in the common lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kay Thode tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home WTO has met again, this time Qatar. The Persian Gulf\u2019s an unlikely place\u2014it\u2019s quite bizarre. They don\u2019t want protesters to have their say. They chose a site that is far, far away, But they got our message: We demand fair trade! Third World countries are put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,69],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}