Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 53 - November 1998Back to list of articles in this issue
Renato Ruggiero - Director General of WTO is pied
Renato Ruggiero - You fat bastard!

Pie In The Eye For World Trade Organisation

One of the most powerful men in the world, Renato Ruggiero, Director General of the World Trade Organisation, had egg all over his face as he was awarded the prestigious VIP 'Pie in the Sky' award for services to global exploitation and destruction. Ruggiero, in London to deliver a keynote address to a 'Trade, Investment, and the Environment' conference, received a pie in the face outside Chatham House, to the cry, "This is a present from the dispossessed!"

There have been several top capitalists with sticky faces recently. Bill Gates, Robert Shapiro (Monsanto's CEO) and the monetarist economist Milton Friedman have all been targets of the American branch of the Biotic Baking Brigade. "In the face of the most profound financial crisis in recent history," an angry Pattiserista said, "the World Trade Organisation has insisted on speeding up the imposition of its neoliberal economic policies which have led to the suffering of millions around the world who are the expendable members of the global economy".