There will be a global day of
action against the WTO, corporate globalization and neoliberalism and for humanity. In New York there will be a
summit to discuss the direction of the anti-corporate globalization / pro-democracy movement.
More:  http://www.protest.net/


The PGA call to action against the WTO summit in Qatar

Peoples Global Action calls on all grassroots social movements, community based organisations, trade unions, student organisations,
indigenous peoples, farmers organisations, 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 immensely 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 GMO 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 is maintained 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 campaigns against 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 the trade ministers attending the conference: demands for the publication of national
positions, blocking of communications or of departures of delegations, etc.
3.Mass coordinated 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 Nov. 9th.
4.Decentralised local action: land occupations, creative demonstrations of grassroots alternatives... Nov. 9th-13th.
More:  http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/qatar/pgacall.htm


European Call:
 http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/qatar/qatarcall.htm