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4,000 activists protest WTO summit in Hong Kong

HONG KONG - About 4,000 anti-globalization activists marched yesterday in the first mass protest against the World Trade Organization's summit in Hong Kong.

The demonstrators, who have been coming from around the world ahead of the five-day WTO meeting that will open Tuesday, marched from Hong Kong's downtown Victoria Park to the government's main office.

"Junk WTO," chanted the protesters. "Our world is not for sale."

Police have been busy securing neighborhoods around the meeting venue, putting mesh on buildings and blocking off streets to prevent the violence of past WTO summits.

British activist Tom Grundy was dressed as a chicken and held a sign that said, "WTO: more dangerous than chicken flu."