From: Andrea Durbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 565 Groups say No to MAI
Joint NGO Statement On The Multilateral Agreement On Investment
To The Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development
Endorsed By 565 Organizations In 68 Countries
INTRODUCTION
As a coalition of development, environment, human rights, labor, consumer
and women's groups from around the world, with representation in over 70
countries, we consider the draft Multilateral Agreement on Investment
(MAI) to be a damaging agreement which should not proceed in its current
form, if at all.
There is an obvious need for multilateral regulation of investments in
view of the scale of social and environmental disruption created by the
increasing mobility of capital. However, the intention of the MAI is not
to regulate investments but to regulate governments. As such, the MAI is
unacceptable.
MAI negotiations began in the OECD in the Spring of 1995, more than two
years ago, and are claimed to be substantially complete by the OECD. Such
negotiations have been conducted without the benefit of participation from
non-OECD countries and civil society, including non-governmental
organizations representing the interests of workers, consumers, farmers or
organizations concerned with the environment, development and human
rights.
As a result, the draft MAI is completely unbalanced. It elevates the
rights of investors far above those of governments, local communities,
citizens, workers and the environment. The MAI will severely undermine
even the meagre progress made towards sustainable development since the
Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
The MAI is not only flawed in the eyes of NGOs, but conflicts with
international commitments already made by OECD member countries:
The MAI fails to incorporate any of the several relevant international
agreements such as the Rio Declaration; Agenda 21; UN Guidelines for
Consumer Protection (1985); the UNCTAD Set of Multilaterally Agreed
Principles for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices (1981); the
Beijing Declaration on Women and the HABITAT Global Plan of Action.
The MAI fails to comply with OECD commitments to integrate economic,
environmental and social policies (1).
The MAI removes responsibilities on transnational enterprises which were
previously agreed by the OECD under the OECD Guidelines for Multilateral
Enterprises 1976 (2).
The exclusion of developing countries and countries in transition from the
negotiations is inconsistent with OECD policy on development partnerships
(3).
Problems with the MAI stem both from the broad restrictions it places on
national democratic action, and from its failure to include sufficient new
systems of international regulation and accountability.
As the MAI stands, it does not deserve to gain democratic approval in any
country. All the groups signing this statement will campaign against its
adoption unless changes, including those cited below, are incorporated
into the body of the MAI.
SUBSTANTIVE CONCERNS
As drafted, the MAI does not respect the rights of countries - in
particular countries in transition and developing countries - including
their need to democratically control investment into their economies.
The level of liberalisation contained in the MAI has already been opposed
as inappropriate by many developing countries. However, non-OECD countries
are under increasing pressure to join.
There are differing investment and development needs of OECD and non-OECD
countries. In particular, the potential for economic diversification and
development of the developing countries - especially the least developed
countries - and countries in transition would be severely undermined by
the provisions of the MAI. The standstill principle would cause particular
problems for countries in transition, many of which have not yet developed
adequate business regulation.
The MAI's withdrawal provision would effectively bind nations to one
particular economic development model for fifteen years; prevent future
governments from revising investment policy to reflect their own
assessment of the wisest economic course; and force countries to continue
to abide by the agreement even if there is strong evidence that its impact
has been destructive.
The MAI contains no binding, enforceable obligations for corporate conduct
concerning the environment, labour standards and anti-competitive
behaviour. The MAI gives foreign investors exclusive standing under a
legally binding agreement to attack legitimate regulations designed to
protect the environment, safeguard public health, uphold the rights of
employees, and promote fair competition.
Further, citizens, indigenous peoples, local governments and NGOs do not
have access to the dispute resolution system, and subsequently can neither
hold multinational investors accountable to the communities which host
them, nor comment in cases where an investor sues a government.
The MAI will be in conflict with many existing and future international,
national and sub-national, laws and regulations protecting the
environment, natural resources, public health, culture, social welfare
and employment laws; will cause many to be repealed; and will deter the
adoption of new legislation, or the strengthening of existing ones.
The MAI is explicitly designed to make it easier for investors to move
capital, including production facilities, from one country to another;
despite evidence that increased capital mobility disproportionately
benefits multinational corporations at the expense of most of the world's
peoples.
WE CALL ON THE OECD AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS TO:
With regard to substantive concerns:
1) Undertake an independent and comprehensive assessment of
the social, environmental, and development impact of the MAI with full
public participation. The negotiations should be suspended during this
assessment.
2) Require multinational investors to observe binding
agreements incorporating environment, labour, health, safety and human
rights standards to ensure that they do not use the MAI to exploit weak
regulatory regimes. Ensure that an enforceable agreement on investor
responsibilities takes precedence over any agreement on investor rights.
3) Eliminate the investor state dispute resolution mechanism
and put into place democratic and transparent mechanisms which ensure that
civil society, including local and indigenous peoples, gain new powers to
hold investors to account.
4) While none of the undersigned NGOs object to the rights of
investors to be compensated for expropriation by a nation state, there are
adequate principles of national law and jurisprudence to protect investors
in circumstances such as these. The current MAI exceeds these well
accepted concepts of direct expropriation, and ventures into areas
undermining national sovereignty. We therefore request that OECD members
eliminate the MAI's expropriation provision so that investors are not
granted an absolute right to compensation for expropriation. Governments
must ensure that they do not have to pay for the right to set
environmental, labour, health and safety standards even if compliance with
such regulations imposes significant financial obligations on investors.
With regard to process concerns:
1) Suspend the MAI negotiations and extend the 1998 deadline
to allow sufficient time for meaningful public input and participation in
all countries.
2) Increase transparency in the negotiations by publicly
releasing the draft texts and individual reservations and by scheduling a
series of on going public meetings and hearings in both member and non
member countries, open to the media, parliamentarians and the general
public.
3) Broaden the active participation of government departments
in the official negotiations beyond state, commerce and finance to a
broader range of government agencies, ministries and parliamentary
committees.
4) Renegotiate the terms of withdrawal to enable countries to
more easily and rapidly withdraw from the agreement when they deem it in
the interest of their citizens. Developing countries and countries in
transitions which have not been a party to the negotiations must not be
pressured to join the MAI.
CONCLUSION
The current MAI text is inconsistent with international agreements signed
by OECD countries, with existing OECD policies, and with national laws to
promote sustainable development. It also fails to take into account
important work carried out by investment experts and official bodies such
as the UNCTAD "development friendliness" criteria for investment
agreements (4) and other work on investor responsibility.
If the OECD policy statements are to have any meaning, the above
provisions must be fully integrated in the MAI with the same legal force
as those on economic liberalisation.
Given our grave concerns about the MAI and the unrealistically short time
frame within which the MAI is being concluded, we look to the OECD and its
member governments to fundamentally reconsider both the process and
substance of the draft agreement. We call on the OECD to make a specific
and detailed written response to our concerns. We also call on the OECD to
avoid talking publicly about its consultations with NGOs without also
talking about the serious concerns raised at those consultations.
Finally, we will continue our opposition to the MAI unless these demands
are met in full.
Notes:
(1) OECD Ministerial Communique May 1997
(2) OECD Code of Conduct for Multinational Enterprises, Paris 1992
(3) "Shaping the 21st Century: The Contribution of Development
Cooperation", OECD 1997. (4) UNCTAD, World Investment Report 1997;
UNCTAD Expert Meeting," Development Friendliness Criteria for
Investment Frameworks", 1997.
Non-Governmental Organizations supporting this statement
include:
Argentina:
Friends of the Earth Argentina
Australia:
AID/Watch
Australia Greens
Australian Conservation Foundation
Australian Coalition for Economic Justice
Australian Health and Development Group
Australians for Animals
Children South Australian MAI Community Awareness Campaign Southern
Women's Group
Friends of the Earth Australia
Mineral Policy Institute
National Council of Single Mothers and their Children
Public Health Association
South Australian MAI Community Awareness Campaign
Southern Women's Group, Inc.
TOES Australia Economic Reform
Urban Ecology Australia
Women's International and Referral Exchange, Inc.
Austria:
Alternate and Green Syndicat
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Austrian Anti-Nuclear NGO
Basis Initiative Nawi Gruene (BING)
Beirat fuer gesellschafts-, wirtschaffs-und unweltpolitsche
Bitte um Bestatigung unter
Commission Internationale pour la protection des Alpes (CIPRA)
Encounter Center for Active Non-Violence
Friends of the Earth Austria
Gewerkschaftlicher Linksblock (GLB)
Green Party of Austria
Komm Ent
OEIE-Kaernten
Sandwind-Agentur Vorarlberg
Southern African Documentation and Cooperation Centre
Bangladesh:
Friends of the Earth Bangladesh
Ubinig
Belarussia:
Belarussian Division of International Academy of Ecology
Belgium:
Centre de Recherche e d'information des Organisations de Consummateurs
European Environmental Bureau
National Center for Development Cooperation
Bosnia Herzegavina
Bosnian Environmental Technologies Association
Brazil:
Assoceatia F.G. Guidotti for Studies and Nature Conservation
Associacao para Projetos de Combate a Fome
Brazillian Institute of Economic and Social Analysis (IBASE)
Fundacao Francisco
Fundacao CEBRAC
Global Forum on Sustainable Food and Nutritional Society
IBASE
Institute for Southern Minas Gerais for Studies and Nature Conservation
NGO World Ideas Network
Rede Dia Mundial da Alimento
Science Club 11th August
Bulgaria:
Centre for Environmental Information & Education
MAR - Bulgaria Youth Alliance for Development
Za Zemiata
Canada:
Albernai Environmental Coalition
Alliance for Public Accountability
Antigonish Coalition for Economic Justice
The Area Clamdiggers Association
BC Green Party
Borrowers' Advocate
Calancan Bay Villagers Support Coalition
Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education Peace Group
Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace
Canadian Consortium for International Social Development
Canadian Council for International Cooperation
Canadian Environmental Law Association
Canadian Environmental Networks
Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy
Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Canadian Voice for Women and Peace
Costa Rica Saskatchewan Twinning Project
Council of Canadians
Council of Canadians - BC Chapter
Council of Canadians - Cowichan Valley Chapter
Council of Canadians - Mid-Island Vancouver
Council of Canadians- Montreal Chapter
Distributed Knowledge Project
Earth Rainbow Network
Eco-Materials Group
Enviro Clove
Falls Brook Centre
Federation Nationale des Associations de Consommateurs du Quebec
Friends of Temagami
The GAIA Project
Georgia Strait Alliance
Global Compliance Research Project
Greenpeace Canada
Greenways Committee
Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
The Halifax Initiative, which includes:
CCIC
Inter-Church Coalition on Africa
Oxfam-Canada
Results-Canada
Social Justice Committee of Montreal
Sierra Club of Canada
Toronto Environmental Alliance
World Inter-Action Mondiale
Indonesia - Canada Alliance
Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America
Island Natural Growers
Lifecycles Project Society
Malaspina Students Union Local 61, Canadian Federation of Students
Manitoba MAI Awareness Coalition
Manitoba Federation of Labor
Manitoba Future Forest Alliance
Montreal Raging Grannies
Nanoose Conversion Campaign
National Action Committee on the Status of Women
The New Democratic Opposition
Nipissing Environmental Watch
North Island Students Association
Northwatch
North-South Institute
Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group
Nova Scotia Voice of Women
Ocean Voice International
Ottawa Local Employment and Trading System
OPIRG - Ottawa
OPIRG - Carleton
Pacific Institute
Polaris Institute
Power River Greenways
The Powell River Regional District
Quality of Life Network
Reach for Unbleached Foundation
Rogers Environmental and Educational Foundation
Saskatchewan Environmental Society
Saskatoon Chapter of Council of Canadians
Sierra Club of Canada
Sierra Youth Coalition
Solution to Pollution
Turtle Island Earth Stewards
West Coast Environmental Law Association
Western Canada Wilderness Committee
The Windsor Arena MAI - Day Coalition
The Windsor Chapter of the Council of Canadians
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
The World Federalists of Canada
World Interaction Mondiale
University of British Columbia MAI - Not Group
University of Victoria Students' Society
Chile:
Centro de Estudios Uruguayo de Tecnologas Apropriadas
Friends of the Earth Chile
Costa Rica:
Friends of the Earth Costa Rica
Croatia:
Green Osijek
Oasis
Czech Republic:
Institute for Environmental Policy
Hnuti Duha/Friends of the Earth Czech Republic
Curacao:
Friends of the Earth Curacao
Denmark:
Friends of the Earth Denmark
El Salvador:
Friends of the Earth El Salvador
Egypt:
Eco-Peace - Middle East Environmental NGO Forum
Estonia:
Tartu Student Nature Protection Group
Europe:
AEDENAT
A SEED Europe
Central and Eastern European Bankwatch Network
Climate Network Europe
Women in Development Europe (WIDE)
Finland:
Finnish Association for Nature Conservation
Friends of the Earth Finland
France:
Ecoropa-France
Friends of the Earth France
Helio International
Germany:
Alliance 90/the Greens
Friends of the Earth Germany
Germanwatch North-South Initiative
Germanwatch
Heinrich Boll Foundation
Initiative bessere Zukunft
Kairos Europe
Southwind Agency
Urgewald
World Economy, Ecology and Development Association (WEED)
Greece:
Association of Social and Ecological Intervention
Grenada:
Friends of the Earth Grenada
Haiti:
Friends of the Earth Haiti
Hungary:
Egyetemes Letezes Teremeszetvedelmi Egyesulet (ETK)
For the Danube' Association
Hungarian Traffic Club
National Society of Conservationists
India:
Alliance for Secular and Democratic South Asia
Bombay Environmental Action Group
Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS)
Dahanu Taluka Environmental Welfare Association
International Study for Gandhian Studies
Lokayan
People's Alliance for Implementation of the Law (PAIL)
The Tamilnadu Peoples Forum for Social Development
Indonesia:
Friends of the Earth Indonesia
International:
Association for Sustainability & Equity in the Americas
Forum Environment and Development
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI)
Global Action Plan
Global Help Project
Greenpeace International
Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
ICDA
NABU
Pacific Environment & Resources Center
People-Centered Development Forum
Third World Network
Witness for Peace
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Women's Environment & Development Organisation (WEDO)
World Wide Fund for Nature International (WWF-I)
World Information Transfer
Ireland:
An Talamh Glas
Friends of the Earth Ireland
Israel:
Eco-Peace - Middle East Environmental NGO Forum
Shatil
Italy:
Associazone Proiezione Peters
Associazone per la Pace - Pordenone
Campaign Globalizzazione
Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppo
Centro Internazionale Crocevia
Cooperativa Itaca- Pordenone
CTM-Movimondo
Fondaziane Internazialelio Basso per i diritti Tribunale Permanente del
Popoli
Friends of the Earth Italy
Greenpeace Italy
IDOC International
Mani Tese
Reform the World Bank Campaign
Service Civil International
World Wildlife Fund
Japan:
APEC Monitor NGO Network
Baraban Heritage Society
Blue Sky Network
Friends of the Earth Japan
International Peoples Health Council
Institute for Alternative Community Development
Japan Tropical Forest Action Network
Kansai NGO Council
Network Earth Village'
Osaka YMCA
Pacific Asia Resource Center
People's Forum 2001
Jordan:
Eco-Peace - Middle East Environmental NGO Forum
Kenya:
Eco-News Africa
Economic and Social Policy Initiatives
Environment Liason Centre International
National Council to Combat Desertification
Latvia:
Association for a Different Europe
Environmental Protection Club
Lithuania:
Friends of the Earth Lithuania
Lithuania Green Movement
Luxembourg:
Friends of the Earth Luxembourg
Macedonia:
Center for Civic Initiatives
Friends of the Earth Macedonia
Malaysia:
Friends of the Earth Malaysia
Mauritania:
Maudesco
Small Farmers Movement
Mexico:
Accion para la Democracia
Accion Ciudadana de Sonora
Accion Estrategica y Pastoral(SPAN)
Alianza Vallesana
Alianza Cuidadana Ambientalista A.C.
Alimentos, Medicinas y Equipos para la Paz A.C.
Asesores para el Avance Social
Campo de Oaxaca
Centro de Estudios del Campo Mexicana
Centro de Estudios Ecumunicos
Centro de Atencion a la Mujer
Centro de Apoyo al Movimiento Popular Oaxaque
Centro de Integral para Promotir es Comunitanos A.C.
Centro de Investigacion y Asesoria Laboral
Centro de Investigacion y Accion de la Mujer, A.C.
Centro de Ecologia y Desarollo
Centro de Estudios Sociales y Ecologicos
Comision Mexicana para la Defensa y Promocion de los Derechos Humanos
Comite de Derechos Humanos de Tabasco
Convergencia Veracruzana
Convergencia de Organismos Civiles por la Democracia, A.C.
Desarrollo, Ambiente y Sociedad
Educacion, Cultura y Ecologia, A.C.
Equipo Pueblo
Escuela de Capacitacion Civica SLP
Espiral
Federacion de Sindicatos Autenticos de Guanajuato
Frente Civico de Sinaloa
Frente Civico de Acapulco
Frente Autentico del Trabajo
Frente por el Derecho a la Alimentacion
Fronteras Comunes
Gabriel Camara (Personal)
Grupo Ecologista del Mayab A.C.
GRUPO DE LOS CIEN INTERNACIONAL
Grupos de Estudios Ambientales A.C.
Indicadores Desarrollo y Analisis (IDEA)
International Federation of Human Rights (LIMEDDH-FIODH)
Intersindical Valle de Mexico
Investigacion y Educacion Popular Autogestiva A.C.
Liga Mexicana por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, subsidiary of the
Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad
Movimiento Cuidadano por la Democracia
Mujeres sin Fronteras A.C.
Mujeres Comprometidas Con Mexico
Mujeres en Accisn Sindical (MAS) A.C.
Nuevo Amanecer Press
Pacto de Grupos Ecologistas
ProNatura Chiapas A.C.
Red Mexicana de Accion Frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC)
Red Yucateca de Organizaciones
Red Nacional de Organizaciones Ecologistas "Pacto de Grupos Ecologistas"
Red Mexicana de Cabildeo por el Desarrollo
Servicios Informativos Procesados A.C.
Servicios Informacion Procesada
Sindicato de Trabajadores de Elevadores Otis
Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadoras de la Industria del Hierro y el Acero
Sindicato Libertad de Trabajadoras de la Confeccion
Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria Metalica, Acero, Hierro, Conexos
ye Similares
Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Contruccion 1 de Mayo
Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria Textil "Belisario Dominguez"
Sindicato de Trabajadores del Inca Rural
Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores de la Secretaria de Pesca
Sociedad Mexicana de Psicologia Social
Trasparencia
UCISV-Vearacruz, Pobladores A.C.
Union de Productores de Vidrio del Estado de Mexico
Union de Cooperativas Independientes
Union de Ejidos del Distrito de Jimenez Chihuahua
Universidad Autonomo Metropolitana
Moldova:
Biotica Ecological Society
Nepal:
Forum for Protection of Public Interest
SAWTEE, Kathmandu
SEWA Nepal
Netherlands:
Alternatieve Konsumentenbord
ANPED, Netherlands
BothENDS
Corporate Europe Observatory
De Kleine Aard
Friends of the Earth Netherlands
Greenpeace Netherlands
Health Action International
Infocentrum Wageningen
Institute for Cultural Ecology
Naar Een Ander Europa
Netherlands Committee of the IUCN
Tools for Transition, Netherlands
Towards a Different Europe
Women in Europe for a Common Future
Women for Peace International
Women's Party
Working Group for a Feminist Group
New Zealand:
Fair Deal Coalition
Friends of the Earth New Zealand
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Nicaragua
Center for Information and Advisory Services Health
Grupo Propositivo de Cabildeo
International Peoples Health Council
Regional Committee for Community Health
Nigeria:
Friends of the Earth Nigeria
Norway:
Friends of the Earth Norway
Red Electoral Alliance
Palestine:
Eco-Peace - Middle East Environmental NGO Forum
Pakistan:
Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE)
Philippines:
Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao (AFRIM), Inc, Philippines
Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
Center for Alternative Development
Ecological Society of the Philippines
Institute for Popular Democracy
Lingkod Tao-Kalikasan
Poland:
CEECAP-Poland
Polish Ecological Club
Portugal:
Ambiental para Barlavento
Romania:
Ecosens
Rhodendendron
Russia:
Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development "Eco-Accord"
Eco-Defense
Environmental Education Coordination Center
Green Cross
Green World
KE Association
Socio-Ecological Union
St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists
World Information Service on Energy (WISE)
Slovakia:
Center for Environmental Public Advocacy
SOSNA, Center for Sustainable Alternatives
Slovenia:
LABECO - Center for Environmental Research
Institute for Cultural Ecology
The Slovenian Foundation for Sustainable Development
Umanotera
South Africa:
South African Municipal Workers Union
South Korea:
Green Korea United
Sri Lanka:
Environmental Foundation Ltd.
Sweden:
Africa Groups of Sweden
Forests, Trees & People at Department of Rural Development Studies
Friends of the Earth Sweden
Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
Switzerland:
Friends of the Earth Switzerland
Swiss Interchurch and Cambodia Programme
Swiss Coalition of Development Organisations
Women's World Summit Foundation
Thailand:
Focus on the Global South
United Kingdom:
Abantu for Development
Action on Disability and Development
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
Centre for Complexity and Change
Christian Ecology Link
Environmental Investigation Agency
Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Green Party of England and Wales
Iona Community
International Coalition for Development Action
Lancashire Global Education Centre
Socialists Environment and Resources Association
Third World First
World Development Movement
United States:
4D Manifestations
8th Day Center for Justice
Alliance for Democracy
Alternatives in Action!
Animal Welfare Institute
Arizona Toxics Information
Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange
Association of State Green Parties
Border Ecology Project
Boulder Independent Business Alliance
California Fair Trade Coalition
Campaign for Labor Rights
Caroline Interfaith Task Force on Central America
Center for Sustainable Systems
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Center of Concern
Center for Popular Economics
Chicago Religious Leadership Network of Latin America
Chicago Metropolitan Sanctuary Alliance
Chicago Local of the Democratic Socialists of America
Citizen's Alliance of Santa Barbara
Coalition for Forests
Comboni Missionaries, Justice and Peace Resource Center
Community Nutrition Institute
Cornell Greens
Cornucopia Network of New Jersey
Cross Border Network for Justice and Solidarity
Culture's Edge
Cumberland Counties for Peace and Justice
Defenders of Wildlife
Democratic Reform News
Democratic Socialists of America
Development GAP
EarthWINS
Employment Research Association
Epicenter
Fair Trade Coalition of Colorado
Federal Land Action Group
Fifty Years is Enough
Friends of the Earth United States
General Board of Church & Society of the United Methodist Church
Global Exchange
Global Corporate Accountability Issue Group
Greater Kansas City Fair Trade Coalition
Green Table
Green Party of Rhode Island
Ground Work for a Just World
Guatemala News and Information Bureau
Hightower & Associates
Howard County Friends of Central America and the Carribean
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute Justice Team for Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
Institute for Food and Development Policy
Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
International Law Center for Human, Economic and Environmental Defense
(HEED)
International Forum on Globalization
International Union of Electricians (IUE) Local 1140
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Labor Rights Fund
International Study for Gandhian Studies
International Rivers Network
International Peoples Health Council- North America
Jobs with Justice-Portland
Jobs with Justice - Mid Willamette Valley Chapter
Kansas Farmers Union
Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center
Latin American Energy Response Network
Leadership Council of Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Hearth of Mary
Long Island Progressive Coalition
Maryknoll Education Center
McKeever Institute of Economic Policy Analysis
Medical Mission Sister's Alliance for Justice
Midwest Center for Labor Research
Mining Impact Coalition of Wisconsin
Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition
Mountcastle International
National Family Farm Coalition
National Wildlife Federation
National Farmers Union
National Commission for Economic Conversion & Disarmement
Native Forest Council
Network for Environmental and Economic Responsibility
NETWORK
NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Network for Environmental and Economic Responsibility
of the United Church of Christ
New Economic Foundation
New York Student Environmental Action Coalition
New Jersey Citizen Action
New Jersey Work Environment Council
New Jersey State Council of YWCAs
New York Citizen Action
New York State Labor-Religion Coalition
Nicaragua Network
Northern Sanitiam Watershed Council
Pacific Environment & Resources Center
Pax Christi-Maine
Pax Christi Michigan State Council
Peace Action of San Mateo County California
Peace and Justice Center of Vermont
Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network
Pennsylvania Fair Trade Campaign
Pesticide Action Network North America
Pittsburgh Labor Action Network for the Americas
Prairie Rural Action
Presbyterian Church
Progressive Review
Project Biodiversity in Public Forests Network
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
Project Underground
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Pure Food Campaign
RAFI-USA
Rainforest Action Network
Reform Party of Texas
Resource Center for the Americas
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights
Rural Vermont
San Francisco Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
Sane Distribution
Sierra Club
Sisters of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame
Society for a Clean Environment
Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network
Steering Committee of Association of State Green Parties
Student Environmental Action Network Montana
Sustainable Alternative to the Global Economy (SAGE)
Synapses
Texas Center for Policy Studies
Texas Fair Trade Campaign
The Edmonds Institute
Tourism Industry Development Council
U.S. Catholic Mission Association
United for a Fair Economy
United Church Board for World Ministries
United Church of Christ,
United Labor Council of Redding and Berks County
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
University Conversion Project
Upavim Crafts
Values Project
Washington Office on Latin America
Western Ancient Forest Campaign
Wetlands Preserve
Witness for Peace
Woodstock Institute
Workgroup for Peoples Health & Rights
World Hunger Year
Worldview
WorldWise
Ukraine:
Green Peace of Izmail
Mama-86
National Ecological Centre
Ukrainian Society for Sustainable Development
Uruguay:
World Rainforest Movement
Yugoslavia:
Centre for Non-Violent Conflict Resolution
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Andrea Durbin
Friends of the Earth U.S.
1025 Vermont Avenue, NW 3rd Fl
Washington, DC 20005
tel: 1 202-783-7400, ext. 209
fax: 1 202-783-0444
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