[mgj-discuss] BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Thai prime minister to step aside

[jon]

There is also speculation that the US-Thai Free Trade
Agreement negotiations will be stalled for at least a
year because of this!

MGJ participated in a great picket outside the US
Trade Rep office in January:
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/132069/index.php

Even before the current scandal hit, the PM was taking
a lot of heat from Thai groups, especially AIDS
activists, who staged huge protests against the
negotiations.

-j



--- Sameer Dossani <sameer.dossani at gmail.com> wrote:

> And they said it couldn't be done. Hats off to the
> Thai people for 
> forcing out the prime minister who also owned half
> of the media who also 
> happened to be one of the richest businessmen in
> Thailand. Now if we 
> could only do that here in the U.S....
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4876326.stm
> 
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