Festival of the Globalphobics: Cry of the Excluded Ones October 12-15, 2000 Tijuana/San Diego Dear Friends, We invite you to join us in organizing and celebrating the Festival of the Globalphobics: Cry of the Excluded, a festival in celebration of international solidarity and opposition to corporate globalization on the U.S.-Mexican border between California and Baja California Norte. The Festival will take place October 12-15 in Tijuana, Mexico. Since the events in Seattle, last November, there has been a growing awareness and public debate in the US, Mexico, and throughout the world about the corporate globalization and its affects on local communities. With that in mind, we propose to celebrate a festival of discussion and debate, art and music, education and organization for resistance on the theme of globalization and its impact on the communities of the U.S.-Mexico border between the Californias. Those of us who live on the border or who live in the two Californias have been the laboratory and guinea pigs for the globalization experiment. First came the maquiladoras, then came the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and now we have the proposal for a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) to take effect by 2005. The World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank, as well as the governments of Mexico and the United States, have been instrumental in establishing this model of corporate power on the border that is our home. The Tijuana-San Diego region represents a microcosm of globalization worldwide. Mexican President Zedillo called those who reject corporate globalization the "globalphobics." But we do not fear corporate globalization: we reject it. We reject it in favor of a democratic, people's movement for a globalization with human rights, economic justice, social well being, environmental sustainability, and international solidarity. The "Festival of the Globalphobics: Cry of the Excluded" invites you to join us in organizing and carrying out a celebration of resistance. We wish to promote an interchange between organizations and individuals working on issues such as: ecological or environmental problems; the rights of migrant workers, agricultural laborers, sex workers and labor rights in general; women's issues; attention to youth and children; and all other groups excluded in the current globalization process. We invite you to organize workshops and panels with others from groups engaged in similar work, but we also ask you to join us in broader discussions outside of our usual areas or activity. We also invite artists and performers to contribute their vision and their inspiration to the search for a human and humane alternative to corporate globalization. Through this festival we hope to establish stronger ties between grassroots groups and NGOs between the Californias on both sides of the border. We would like to see this conference contribute to the building of a network of activists on both sides of the border to strengthen our local work, and to permit us to take on regional, binational and international issues. Join us in this festival as we celebrate resistance to corporate globalization and the struggle for a better, more human world. [Partial list of sponsoring and endorsing organizations in alphabetical order. Please contact the names and numbers listed below if you would like to sponsor or endorse this event. We welcome your support.] Activist San Diego [Building a social justice community by networking individuals and organizations.] CITTAC [Center for Information for Women and Men Maquiladora Workers, Tijuana] Committee for Solidarity in the Americas [An international solidarity organization based in San Diego.] Environmental Health Coalition [A grassroots environmental justice organization based in San Diego.] Factor X / Casa de la Mujer [Women maquiladora workers center for labor, health, & environment, Tijuana.] Frente Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, Ensenada, Mexicali, Tijuana Chapters [Non-electoral, social and political movement.] Global Exchange [Human rights education and action center, San Francisco, CA] Red de Mujeres de la Peninsula de Baja California [Women's Network of the Peninsua of Baja California] Servicios y Solidaridad en Mexico, AC [A center for democratic and communitarian development, Tijuana.] San Diego WTO Alert [A network of progressive organizations & individuals for fair trade, living wage, protection of planet and parity for all peoples.] Yeuani, A.C. [Labor & environmental law center for women maquiladora workers, Tijuana] To join us contact: Festival de los Globalifobicos in Tijuana Adriana O Sullivan 011-526-686-2851 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or: Global Exchange Dan La Botz 415-558-9486 or 415-558-8682, ext. 229. [EMAIL PROTECTED] PROGRAM Thursday 12 of October 10 am Press Conference at Restaurant Jard n en Tijuana The Cry of the Excluded 5 pm San Diego-Tijuana border Colonia Libertad, Tijuana trolley stop Friday 13 of October Conference on Globalization and Neoliberalism and their effects in the border region. Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana 6:00 p.m. Saturday 14 of October 10 am Casa de Cultura, Tijuana. Workshops on Work and Maquiladoras; Gender, sexual and reproductive rights; Immigration; Indigenous Culture and Farmworkers; Environment; Human Rights and Peace; Culture and Education; Militarization and Public Security; Democracy. 2 pm Community Meal 4 pm Plenary session and reports from the workshops 8 pm Cultural Festival Entire Saturday program at Casa de Cultura, Tijuana. Sunday 15 of October 11 am. Casa de Cultura, Tijuana Discussion of Strategies to fight for the rights of the Excluded. -30- Deborah James, Fair Trade Director Global Exchange [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415.558.8682 ext. 245 415.255.7498 fax 2017 Mission Street #303, San Francisco, CA 94110 http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee Buying Fair Trade Certified coffee is a simple, easy thing you can do on a daily basis to support fairness for farmers around the world. 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