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public forum
WE HAVE A WORLD TO WIN
STOP THE NEW WTO ROUND
MAY 4, FRIDAY 6:30PM
@ TRADES HALL, New Council Chamber
Ph: 9639 8622. Gold Coin donation entry
CHAIRED by JEN COUCH (VU Academic researching anti-corporate movement)
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
-> PAMELA CURR
Fairwear campaign
-> CHRIS CHAPLIN
Victorian Greens
-> SARAH PEART
Democratic Socialist Party
M1 Alliance activist
-> others being confirmed (ph 9639 8622 for updates)
This forum comes days after M1, and in light of plans to organise a mass
Convergence on Canberra on S11, 2001 to force the Australian gov to
boycott the new WTO rounds. Speakers will discuss how we can build the
anti-capitalist movement, what the WTO will mean and how it can be
stopped, including plans for "S11 Mark II"...
BACKGROUND-
The big corporate powers and their governments want the ministerial
summit of the World Trade Organisation, planned for Qatar in November, to
undo what was won at Seattle by thousands of people in the street and by
the delegations of 70 Third World countries, which, combined, torpedoed a
new trade round.
At the recent People's Conference Against Globalisation, held in New
Delhi from March 21-23, Walden Bello of the International Forum on
Globalisation said that it must be a priority of the anti-corporate
movement to stop the WTO launching a new round of trade talks at Qatar.
Indian feminist Vandana Shiva has also argued forcefully that this is an
urgent priority for the movement.
One proposal is a large convergence during parliament's spring sitting
(probably the last sitting of this parliament) which will place
tremendous pressure on current and future governments. It will put this
issue on the agenda for the coming federal elections.
Part of the Canberra Convergence could be a Sunday (September 9)
conference for activist groups, which would be a much-needed national
forum and exchange of views for the movement, Monday workshops and
preparation for action, and, on the Tuesday, "S11 mark II": an
encirclement or blockade of Parliament House.
An open forum sponsored by Green Left Weekly.
COME ALONG AND HAVE YOUR SAY!
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