Syndicate: Re: Against Free Trade!

[iput@c3.hu (St.Auby)]

>Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 23:13:47 -0800
>From: Csaba Polony <leftcurv@wco.com>
>Reply-To: leftcurv@wco.com
>Organization: Left Curve Publications
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>To: "St.Auby" <iput@c3.hu>
>Subject: Re: Against Free Trade!

>>  From: Play Fair Europe! Aachen  Subject: Peoples' Movements vs. "Free"
>>Trade and the WTO - Worldwide
>> > Conference - February 1998
>> >
>> >       **Please help us to distribute this message**
>> >
>> > From the 23 to the 25 of February 1998, 600 representatives of peoples
>> > movements will meet in Geneva to establish a platform for worldwide action
>> > against trade liberalisation: the Peoples' Global Action against "Free"
>> > Trade and the WTO (PGA).
>> >
>> > The PGA will work as a tool for coordination, exchange of information and
>> > mutual support for the struggles of all those hit by neoliberal
>> > globalisation. It calls for non-violent civil disobedience and the
>> > construction of local alternatives by local people, as answers to the
>> > action of multilateral institutions, governments and corporations.
>> >
>> > The first big-scale action in the calendar of the PGA will be a wave of
>> > decentralised mobilisations and protests all over the world parallel to the
>> > Second Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which
>> > shall take place on 18-20 May 1998.
>> >
>> > The meeting in February will be the founding conference of the PGA, since
>> > it will lay down the basis of the alliance in the form of a manifesto. It
>> > is being convened by a committee formed by some of the most representative
>> > peoples' movements of all continents, including peasant movements (like the
>> > Brazilian Movimento Sem Terra, the Indian KRRS and the Peasant Movement of
>> > the Philippines), indigenous peoples (like the Mexican Zapatistas, the
>> > Nigerian Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, the Indigenous
>> > Women's Network of North America and the Pacific and FIA, a Maori
>> > organisation from Aotearoa), unions (like the Central Sandinista de
>> > Trabajadores from Nicaragua) and women's organisations (like Mama 86, an
>> > organisation of Ukranian women affected by the Chernobyl disaster, and the
>> > above mentioned Indigenous Women's Network).
>> >
>> > Other events will take place around the first PGA conference. From the 18
>> > to the 21 of February, there will be several information and discussion
>> > roundtables on topics such as gender, food production, culture, economics,
>> > etc.,  prepared by organisations participating in the conference. On
>> > February 22 there will be a one-day intensive seminar on the WTO, the MAI
>> > and trade liberalisation. On February 26 there will be a number of
>> > coordination and planning sessions in small groups, divided according to
>> > the topics treated in the roundtables. Finally, on February 27 there will
>> > be a European meeting to launch a Europe-wide movement of civil
>> > disobedience against "free" trade.
>> >
>> > If you want more information about the PGA and its first conference, please
>> > visit the web page http://www.agp.org or send a message to
>> > playfair@asta.rwth-aachen.de
>> >
>> > IMPORTANT: If you are interested in this conference and come from Africa,
>> > Asia, Latin America or Central and Eastern Europe, please get in touch with
>> > the conference secretariat RIGHT NOW, even if you are not sure about your
>> > participation. The Swiss visa procedure is probably the most difficult one
>> > in the whole world. There will be limited funds to support the travel
>> > expenses of some delegates; you will receive more information about this at
>> > the beginning of 1998, but you should anyhow send your application now.
>>
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