ANALYSIS: Miami FTAA Talks Failed When You Really Look At It
marco | 02.12.2003 23:34 | Analysis | World
Analysis is beginning to come in fast now.
And most of it points out something beyond
the trueisms and rose-colored-glasses paintings.
Talks failed.
And most of it points out something beyond
the trueisms and rose-colored-glasses paintings.
Talks failed.
When you really get down to it, they did NOT meet
their objectives.
Jeb Bush, Police Chief Timoney and a handful of
goons are about the only ones still willing to
stick to the story written weeks before the trade
talks began.
That of police holding down protesters, no one getting
near the fence, nothing being disrupted, etc.
Well everything was disruptive.
Chief Timoney is the king of disruptive.
But I digress.
Two key points for analysis here.
1) Monday before the talks began, the people trying
to build FTAA infrastructure scrapped the entire idea
of deciding where the headquarters building is going
to be. They might discuss it as early as June in Brasil.
But not now. There was no way to hammer that out AND
make an organizational structure.
2) The organizational structure hardly even resembles
an organizational structure at all.
What they agreed upon a full day early was a stack of
pieces of paper that essentially say,
"It's cool to have an FTAA, we all want an FTAA,
so let's have an FTAA someday."
That's about it.
Watered down agreement at best. Check it out.
We won, even though it didn't feel like it at first!
marco
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Focus&oid=38949
http://www.alcaabajo.cu/sitio/la_lucha_contra_el_alca/articulos/ ftaa_met_defeat_021203.htm
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17284
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl- zftaa23nov23,0,5592828.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/nov2003/ftaa-n21.shtml
http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/info/business/ story.html?id=C67DEF6A-2FD2-439A-B578-91B646E40654
http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost/story.html?id=A81FCE2F-9447- 4DF0-8C8F-F91CE4AE02BC
their objectives.
Jeb Bush, Police Chief Timoney and a handful of
goons are about the only ones still willing to
stick to the story written weeks before the trade
talks began.
That of police holding down protesters, no one getting
near the fence, nothing being disrupted, etc.
Well everything was disruptive.
Chief Timoney is the king of disruptive.
But I digress.
Two key points for analysis here.
1) Monday before the talks began, the people trying
to build FTAA infrastructure scrapped the entire idea
of deciding where the headquarters building is going
to be. They might discuss it as early as June in Brasil.
But not now. There was no way to hammer that out AND
make an organizational structure.
2) The organizational structure hardly even resembles
an organizational structure at all.
What they agreed upon a full day early was a stack of
pieces of paper that essentially say,
"It's cool to have an FTAA, we all want an FTAA,
so let's have an FTAA someday."
That's about it.
Watered down agreement at best. Check it out.
We won, even though it didn't feel like it at first!
marco
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Focus&oid=38949 http://www.alcaabajo.cu/sitio/la_lucha_contra_el_alca/articulos/ ftaa_met_defeat_021203.htm http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17284 http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl- zftaa23nov23,0,5592828.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/nov2003/ftaa-n21.shtml http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/info/business/ story.html?id=C67DEF6A-2FD2-439A-B578-91B646E40654 http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost/story.html?id=A81FCE2F-9447- 4DF0-8C8F-F91CE4AE02BC
marco