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OFW group seranades compatriots to join anti-WTO protest

BAGUIO CITY (Nov. 17) — Filipino music became an instrument of the anti-World Trade Organization (WTO) campaign in Hong Kong.

LIKHA, a migrant cultural group and ally of the United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-HK), serenaded Filipino migrant workers spending their day off in Central, Hong Kong on November 13 with progressive songs. This was part of the 10-week countdown to the WTO events.

The event dubbed as People’s Serenade, which aimed to enjoin migrant workers to participate in the People’s Action Week Against the WTO was a first of its kind in Hong Kong. This initiative is part of the whole campaign designed by the Hong Kong People’s Alliance on the WTO.

UNIFIL chairperson Dolores Balladares said the serenade is one of the various forms their group is using to educate fellow migrant workers on the impacts of the WTO and the need to join in the campaign in December.

Accompanying the singers were migrant workers wearing mardi gras-like masks who distributed flyers about the WTO and an invitation to the Hong Kong People’s Mardi Gras Against the WTO slated on November 27.

The People’s Action Week is slated on December 10-18, in time for the 6th Ministerial Conference of the WTO to be held in the HK Convention and Exhibition Center.

The group sang to fellow migrant workers in Star Ferry, Chater Road, Ice House, Chater Garden and HSBC Building. # via NORDIS

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