Indeed, rather the contrary. They fight bio-technology, a science that can provide poor farmers with plants and livestock more resistant to disease, particularly in tropical areas. The activists who are protesting the WTO press for controls on pollution emissions. Reducing pollution emissions would close factories in the Third World and harm the poor. The activists who are protesting the WTO are against biotechnology.
Biotechnology is good for poor farmers.
Therefore the activists who are protesting the WTO are harming the poor. That hatred shows up in their literature and is also the reason why they will be in Seattle to try to trash the next round of trade liberalization. The activists protest the WTO because they have never been poor. They cannot understand the poor. They hate the rich corporations that deliver wealth to the poor.