John Jordan on Sun, 30 Sep 2001 00:45:48 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Fwd: (en) PGA Call for Qatar, Cochabamba declaration from Peoples Global Action... |
>Delivered-To: a-infos-en-outgoing@ainfos.ca >Subject: (en) PGA Call for Qatar, Cochabamba declaration from >Peoples Global Action... >From: "Dave Bleakney" <dbleakney@cupw-sttp.org> >To: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca >Sender: worker-a-infos-en@ainfos.ca >Reply-To: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca >Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:47:36 -0400 (EDT) > > ________________________________________________ > A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E > http://www.ainfos.ca/ > ________________________________________________ > >> From: OdM <red-red2@span.ch> > > 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. > > > ******** > ****** The A-Infos News Service ****** > News about and of interest to anarchists > ****** > COMMANDS: lists@ainfos.ca > REPLIES: a-infos-d@ainfos.ca > HELP: a-infos-org@ainfos.ca > WWW: http://www.ainfos.ca/ > INFO: http://www.ainfos.ca/org > >-To receive a-infos in one language only mail lists@ainfos.ca the message: > unsubscribe a-infos > subscribe a-infos-X > where X = en, ca, de, fr, etc. (i.e. the language code) -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible." Toni Cade Bambara OUR RESISTANCE IS AS TRANSNATIONAL AS CAPITAL http:// www.WeAreEverywhere.org WE ARE EVERYWHERE - a radical publishing project, needs your contributions. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net