ABSTRACT
I was about to join a thick crowd of demonstrators when a friend pulled me aside to ask for help. She wanted me to interview Spanish speakers for an independent documentary she was filming. We were in Cancun, Mexico, during a four-day protest at the 2003 World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meetings. All around us were campesinos, farmers, and indigenous people who had traveled to Cancun from different parts of the world, including South Korea, Brazil, Bolivia, France, Italy, and Mexico. Also present were anarchists from Latin America, North America, and Europe. They were all there to draw attention to WTO food and agricultural policies that would likely produce drastic and grave human consequences. For this reason, thousands were now marching in the streets of Cancun. The diversity of the crowd was stunning, audible in the multiplicity of languages spoken.
