PGA call to action against WTO summit in Qatar, Nov 9-13 2001
Chiapaslink | 05.10.2001 11:41
People's Global Action calls on all grassroots social
movements, community-based organisations, trade unions, students groups, indigenous peoples, autonomous collectives and everyone who wishes to participate around the world, to carry out actions against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) during the next ministerial summit in Doha, Qatar, November
9th-13th, 2001.
The WTO's aim is very simple: to remove anything that gets in the way of big business and free trade, upholding the freedom for multinational companies to act as they please. Made up of 135 member countries, the WTO polices
international trade rules and continues to set an agenda that places profit above people and the planet.
Faced with a rapidly expanding grassroots resistance to capitalist globalisation, the WTO has fled to an isolated desert dictatorship for its next meeting. Already built into the agenda are three immensly destructive trade agreements: the Agreement on Agriculture (AOA), the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) and the Trade Related Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS). Between them, they cover issues like the privatisation of health, education and water; forcing genetically modified foods and seeds on member countries, and patents on life forms.
THEY CAN RUN BUT THEY CAN'T HIDE: WE ARE EVERYWHERE!
RESIST THE WTO THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THROUGH DIRECT ACTION AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE WHEREVER COMMUNITIES ARE DESTROYED AND ECOSYSTEMS SACRIFICED FOR THE SAKE OF FREE TRADE!
Regardless of whether the WTO meeting takes place or not, we will be in the streets, because the streets are ours. Grassroots organisations all over the world are organising the following kinds of actions and call on others to do the same:
1) Awareness raising campaings against the WTO and the effect of their policies on a global and local level:
community-based consultations, counter-meetings, public debates, publications.
2) Maximum disruption of the work of trade ministers
attending the conference: demands for the publication of national positions, blocking of communications or of departures of delegations etc.
3) Mass co-ordinated actions on a national and international level: work stoppages, road blocks, occupation of stock exchanges and other financial institutions (New York, San Francisco, Sao Paolo..) liberation of grain stocks (India) on November 9th.
4) Decentralised local actions: land occupations, creative demonstrations of grassroots alternatives.... Nov 9th-13th 2001
movements, community-based organisations, trade unions, students groups, indigenous peoples, autonomous collectives and everyone who wishes to participate around the world, to carry out actions against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) during the next ministerial summit in Doha, Qatar, November
9th-13th, 2001.
The WTO's aim is very simple: to remove anything that gets in the way of big business and free trade, upholding the freedom for multinational companies to act as they please. Made up of 135 member countries, the WTO polices
international trade rules and continues to set an agenda that places profit above people and the planet.
Faced with a rapidly expanding grassroots resistance to capitalist globalisation, the WTO has fled to an isolated desert dictatorship for its next meeting. Already built into the agenda are three immensly destructive trade agreements: the Agreement on Agriculture (AOA), the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) and the Trade Related Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS). Between them, they cover issues like the privatisation of health, education and water; forcing genetically modified foods and seeds on member countries, and patents on life forms.
THEY CAN RUN BUT THEY CAN'T HIDE: WE ARE EVERYWHERE!
RESIST THE WTO THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THROUGH DIRECT ACTION AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE WHEREVER COMMUNITIES ARE DESTROYED AND ECOSYSTEMS SACRIFICED FOR THE SAKE OF FREE TRADE!
Regardless of whether the WTO meeting takes place or not, we will be in the streets, because the streets are ours. Grassroots organisations all over the world are organising the following kinds of actions and call on others to do the same:
1) Awareness raising campaings against the WTO and the effect of their policies on a global and local level:
community-based consultations, counter-meetings, public debates, publications.
2) Maximum disruption of the work of trade ministers
attending the conference: demands for the publication of national positions, blocking of communications or of departures of delegations etc.
3) Mass co-ordinated actions on a national and international level: work stoppages, road blocks, occupation of stock exchanges and other financial institutions (New York, San Francisco, Sao Paolo..) liberation of grain stocks (India) on November 9th.
4) Decentralised local actions: land occupations, creative demonstrations of grassroots alternatives.... Nov 9th-13th 2001
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NO TO THE WTO!
23.10.2001 15:58
London picket and public meeting to coincide with WTO ministerial in Qatar, November 2001 approx 100 words
FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER, FIRST DAY OF WTO MEETING, PICKET QATAR EMBASSY, 1 SOUTH AUDLEY ST, LONDON W1, NEAREST TUBE NEW BOND ST. 11.30 AM
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER, PUBLIC MEETING, 'WORLD TRADE/INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FRAUD, TERRORISM AND GENOCIDE', ULU, MALET ST, LONDON WC1, NEAREST TUBES, EUSTON SQ AND GOODGE ST. 2 PM TO 6 PM. £2 REGISTRATION. CRECHE (let us know before 3 November if you want to use it), WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
SPEAKERS:
MUKHTAR RANA, Peace & Human Rights Trust, The Land Is Ours
PAT BUDU, trade unionist and Pan Africanist
MARIA VASQUEZ-AGUILAR, Chile: Sports, Culture & Development Association, Sheffield
SELMA JAMES, International Wages for Housework Campaign
TONY BENN, ex-MP
GEORGE MONBIOT, author & campaigning journalist
JOHN CAMPBELL, Sheffield Trades Council
Organised by the IMF & WORLD BANK WANTED FOR FRAUD CAMPAIGN 020 8749 7179
IMF & WORLD BANK WANTED FOR FRAUD CAMPAIGN
e-mail:
nkexplo@yahoo.co.uk
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23.10.2001 16:06
Saturday 3 November
(name recently changed from 'carnival' post sept 1th))
As groups around the world organise protests in their communities for the WTO meeting in Qatar, a coalition of NGO's in the UK plans a carnival event:
Assemble at 12:30pm in
Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London SE1
Nearest tube: Lambeth North
See:
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Trade Unions declare Global Day of Action for 4th WTO Ministerial Conference
no wto
Canadian call re IMF/WB 17/18 November
24.10.2001 11:21
The coalition of peace, faith, women's, labour, environmental, cultural and student groups wants the federal government to withdraw Canadian Forces from the war on terrorism.
"We demand that the Canadian government end Canadian military participation in the war and pursue a political solution to the crisis," said co-chairwoman Deborah Bourque, of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
The group also wants Ottawa to reassess international policies and agreements based on peace and international development. It has set Nov. 17 as a "cross-Canada day for global peace and justice."
"The coalition believes that the current crisis must be resolved through a framework of law and equality of people, not a framework of war and racism," said Bourque.
"Canada's security emanates from our social programs, our commitment to equality, our respect for democracy and our positive role in the world through support for the preservation of the environment, respect for human rights, eradication of poverty and the expansion of workers' rights."
It wants the federal government to halt free-trade negotiations and use Nov. 17-18 meetings of the G-20, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Ottawa to assess current agreements and policies "against Canadian values of peace, social justice and security of all people."
"The policies of the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO have created terrible inequality, poverty and environmental destruction in many areas around the world," said Steven Staples of the Council of Canadians.
"These are the breeding grounds for conflict and extremism which are the root causes of terrorism. What we should be doing is dropping Third World debt, not bombs."
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