The World Trade Organisation will be meeting in Doha, Qatar, on November
9-13. So the Friends of the Earth Trade Campaign's having a meeting to talk
about what we're going to do - information, demos, wacky costumes, direct
action...?
If you're interested, come along - we only need you for a month!The meeting
will be pretty short, very interactive and provide you with the information
and resources to get more involved in stopping the WTO and ensuring
real global justice.
Tuesday October 16, 6:30pm at Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith Street
Collingwood. For more info call FoE on 9419 8700.
In November, the world's richest governments are aiming to expand the WTO
and push ahead with the GATS negotiations. The beneficiaries will be
multinational corporations while the losers will be communities and the
environment, particularly those that at the margins - women in sweatshops,
indigenous peoples and workers in the South. The tragedy of September 11
has the potential to spur a rethink of corporate globalisation.
Unfortunately the world's most powerful governments are using the tragedy
to push ahead with liberalisation through the WTO. More free trade will
have one effect - increased power to corporations and increased inequality
in a world where the richest countries have 72 times more wealth than the
poorest. There is an alternative - and it starts with stopping the WTO. A
safe world is a fair world. Say no to the wto and no to expanding it's agenda.
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