Interview conducted between Tamil Nadu, India & Montreal, Quebec 26:05 minutes

Listen to an interview with Kannaiyan Subramaniam an activist with the South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements (SICCFM), a member group to Via Campesina, who outlines a critique on the pending E.U./India bilateral 'free trade' agreement pointing to potentially negative impacts on farming communities in India. As E.U./India state officials negotiate a wide reaching bilateral trade accord behind closed doors, grassroots social movements in India that fought the World Trade Organization (WTO) root contemporary activism against bilateral accords in lived experiences of WTO policies in India. In this interview Kannaiyan highlights the key role that farmers movements in India played in opposing the WTO and their contemporary appeal for social movements globally to take action on bilateral accords. -- Stefan Christoff, 14.02.2011