N11: WTO-Meeting - Global Action Day against Capitalism
by worldwide 9:42pm Tue Oct 23 '01
Their last ministerial was the comming out party for
the anti-globalization movement. This time they are
holding their meeting in Qatar, a tiny, remote Arabian
state ruled by a repressive absolute monarchy.
See:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/qatar/index.htm There will be a global day of
action against the WTO, corporate globalization and neoliberalism and for
humanity. In New York there will be a
summit to discuss the direction of the anti-corporate globalization /
pro-democracy movement.
More:
http://www.protest.net/ The PGA call to action against the WTO summit in Qatar
Peoples Global Action calls on all grassroots social movements, community
based organisations, trade unions, student organisations,
indigenous peoples, farmers organisations, autonomous collectives and
everyone who wishes to participate around the world to carry
out actions against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) during the next
ministerial summit in Doha, Qatar, November 9th-13th,
2001.
The WTO´s aim is very simple: to remove anything that gets in the way of big
business and free trade, upholding the freedom for
multinational companies to act as they please. Made up of 135 member
countries, the WTO polices international trade rules and
continues to set an agenda that places profit above people and the planet.
Faced with a rapidly expanding grassroots resistance to capitalist
globalisation, the WTO has fled to an isolated desert dictatorship for
its next meeting. Already built into the agenda are three immensely
destructive trade agreements: the Agreement on Agriculture
(AOA), the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) and the
Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
Between them, they cover issues like: the privatisation of health, education
and water, forcing GMO foods and seeds on member
countries and patents on life forms.
THEY CAN RUN BUT THEY CAN´T HIDE: WE ARE EVERYWHERE!
RESIST THE WTO THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THROUGH DIRECT
ACTION AND CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE WHEREVER COMMUNITIES ARE DESTROYED AND
ECOSYSTEMS
SACRIFICED FOR THE SAKE OF FREE TRADE!
Regardless of whether the WTO meeting is maintained or not, we will be in
the streets, because the streets are ours. Grassroots
organisations all over the world are organising the following kinds of actions
and call on others to do the same:
1.Awareness-raising campaigns against WTO and the effect of their policies
on a global and local level: community based
consultations, counter-meetings, public debates, publications.
2.Maximum disruption of the work of the trade ministers attending the
conference: demands for the publication of national
positions, blocking of communications or of departures of delegations, etc.
3.Mass coordinated actions on a national and international level: work
stoppages, road blocks, occupation of stock exchanges and
other financial institutions (New York, San Francisco, Sao Paolo...),
liberation of grain stocks (India) on Nov. 9th.
4.Decentralised local action: land occupations, creative demonstrations of
grassroots alternatives... Nov. 9th-13th.
More:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/qatar/pgacall.htm 
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