GLOBAL ACTION
Environmental and Social Action in an era of Globalisation
July 29, Satuday
@ Uni of Melbourne, Student Union. North Dining Hall ($10/ $5 conc)
a one day conference that will help build alternatives to the politics of
global capital. Involving a range of environmental and community based
activists, this conference rejects the politics of the World Bank, World
Trade Organisation and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
An important initiative in the lead up to the protest against the World
Economic Forum on September 11 (organised a range of groups including the
S11 Alliance).
The Global Action Conference is presented by:
Friends of the Earth. ph 9419 8700
Green Left Weekly. ph 9639 8622
The agenda so far (call for updates)
9.30am Welcome
9.45 Plenary: Beyond Seattle: confronting the global market and its
plunder
11.15 Workshops: key issues in developing an alternative agenda
(a) Population, immigration and racism
(b) Protecting Australian industry from competition: who benefits?
(c) Parliament, mass action and social change
(d) Towards a green economy- what role for the market?
(e) Women in the global marketplace
12.45 Lunch
1.45 Plenary: Northern and Southern perspectives on fighting globalisation
3.15 Workshops to continue from above discussion
(a) Workers' rights, jobs and the environment
(b) Democracy and reconstruction in Indonesia and East Timor:
challenges for the solidarity movement
(c) Solidarity with popular movements in Latin America
(d) Debt & Poverty
(e) Indigenous struggles, racism and the Olympics
(f) Globalising the green movement
4.45 Break
5.00 Final plenary: focussed on discussion rather than resolutions.
Also, summing up & announcements.
LL.VG
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