Ini informasi dari "katak dalam tempurung" kepada orang yang menganggap dirinya "tahu segala" (kebalikan dari "katak dalam tempurung", bukan? ) tentang Peoples Global Camp di Bali yang menentang dan menuntut dibubarkannya WTO. Seandainya keberadaan Tiongkok di WTO adalah bentuk perlawanan kepada imperialisme dan rakyat merasa diwakili kepentingannya oleh Tkk di WTO, sudah tentu rakyat akan "sangat berterima kasih" dan ngapain cape-cape buang energi dan uang untuk mengorganisasi pertemuan internasional anti WTO. Sudah cukup diwakili oleh Tkk yang begitu besar, gagah, lihai diplomasinya dan kaya , bukan? BALI, Indonesia – As part of the People’s Global Camp (PGC) activities on December 4, the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS) Commission 6 and the International Fisherfolk and Fishworkers Coalition (IFWC) in cooperation with the Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) successfully organized the “International Workshop on WTO, Global Landgrabbing and Resistance.”At least 70 participants from 29 organizations coming from the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia and Switzerland joined the workshop from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Peasant Camp (Tenda 2), GOR Ngurah Rai Sports Center in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. In line with the PGC objective, the self-organized event served as a protest against the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 9th Ministerial Conference (MC9).Fathima Burnad, APC Chairperson, welcomed the participants. She stated that since the establishment of the APC in 2003, the APC consistently resisted the WTO and neo-liberal globalization on agriculture and trade especially in Hongkong (2005) and now in Bali. Burnad calls on everyone in further strengthening the people’s movement against the WTO. Burnad is also from the Tamil Nadu Women’s Forum in India.Antonio Tujan of IBON International (Philippines) stressed that WTO promoted land speculation and global landgrab. He cited the following reasons for global landgrab: expansion of agribusiness corporations, agro fuels, landgrab for development projects and financialization or land speculation.Azra Sayeed of Roots for Equity (Pakistan) discussed the increasing role of Pakistani military and the US military in connection to landgrabbing in Pakistan. She cited that the Pakistani government promised foreign landgrabbers to mobilize its one (1) million military forces to protect their business interests. She added that the weapons utilized in suppressing global landgrabbing came from the US military corporations. Sayeed stated that the US maintains two American bases to keep an eye on India, China and for its search for oil and energy. Finally, she stressed that global landgrab cannot be separated from US militarism.Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano of KMP (Peasant Movement of the Philippines) expounded on the role of the state in pursuing WTO agenda, neo-liberal globalization and global landgrab. He mentioned that the national laws, programs and policies are attuned to fit the dictates and impositions of the US-led WTO. He emphasized that land reform programs are designed to accommodate free market state and wages campaign of repression against peasants and the people resisting WTO and imperialist globalization. He called on the people to strengthen the struggle for land, freedom and justice and to make stronger the solidarity at the international level.Representatives of peasant movements in India (P. Chennaiah of the Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union–APVVU), Pakistan (Mujeeb Ur Rahaman of the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tahreek-PKMT), Indonesia (Budi of the Alliance for Agrarian Reform Movement- AGRA), Bangladesh (Badrul Alam of the Bangladesh Krishok Federation),Sri Lanka (Lakpriya Nanarakkaya of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform), and Malaysia (Nicholas Mujah of the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association-SADIA), shared their current struggles against landgrabbing and resource plunder.Finally, the participants agreed to organize continuing study sessions, workshops and conferences to further understand the impacts of WTO and neo-liberal globalization on agriculture and trade. They concurred to discuss and unite on people’s alternatives to corporatization and financialization of agriculture. They also agreed to intensify resistance, to strengthen peasants’ organizations and to mobilize people against imperialist globalization, and for system change.The workshop ended with a stronger unity to Junk WTO and to build a bright future for humanity. The participants shouted “Junk, Junk WTO!” “Bubarkan WTO!” “Down with Imperialism!” “Long live international solidarity!”.#
[GELORA45] Junk, junk WTO! Bubarkan WTO!
Tatiana Lukman [email protected] [GELORA45] Sun, 04 Dec 2016 10:06:06 -0800
