[mobglob-discuss] CALL TO MOBILIZE AGAINST THE APEC conference in Vancouver

Mon Jun 16 11:23:29 PDT 2003

What about mobilizing for the APEC conference in Vancouver in July ?? Is
anyone organizing on this yet ??
Bella

--- Graeme Bacque <gbacque at colosseum.com> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: worker-san at lists.tao.ca [mailto:worker-san at lists.tao.ca]On Behalf
> Of resisteomc at resist.ca
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:07 PM
> To: undisclosed-recipients:
> Subject: san: CALL TO MOBILIZE AGAINST THE WTO IN MONTREAL - JULY 27-30,
> 2003
> 
> 
>                          (forward widely)
>   [version francaise disponisble - contactez resisteomc at resist.ca]
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>               In the spirit of Seattle and Quebec,
>        and in solidarity with protests in Cancun, Mexico:
> 
>          ************************************************
>           CALL TO MOBILIZE AGAINST THE WTO IN MONTREAL
>                   JULY 27-30, 2003 /MONTREAL
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> 
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>               MINI-MINISTERIAL?   MEGA-PROTEST!!!
> 
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> 
>    **Mobilization Against the WTO Mini-Ministerial in Montreal**
> 
> As part of the ongoing struggle against capitalism, imperialism,
> patriarchy, and other forms of oppression, people are invited to
> converge
> in Montreal on July 27-30 to oppose the World Trade Organization (WTO).
> Mega-demonstrations are planned in response to a so-called
> 'mini-ministerial' -- at which an exclusive group of trade ministers
> will
> be conspiring here in Montreal to engineer a 'successful' outcome at a
> larger WTO ministerial to be held in September in Cancun, Mexico.
> 
> "Mobilization Against the WTO Mini-Ministerial in Montreal" -- an open
> organizational assembly process called by Montreal region activists
> affiliated with various local anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and
> anti-war groups -- has adopted a basic action plan.  This will include
> direct action disruptions to the upcoming meeting (possibly a
> 'shutdown')
> and an emphasis on complementing the efforts of local groups dealing
> with
> antiwar, refugee, immigrant, and indigenous struggles.  There will be
> several days of action, allowing space for various issues, such as a
> focus
> on the pharmaceutical industry's refusal to permit low-cost, life-saving
> and life-enhancing AIDS drugs to the global South, on the GATS (General
> Agreement on Trade and Services), on WTO agricultural policies, and
> more.
> The events will be kicked off with a large-scale, popular,
> child-friendly
> march on July 27 under the theme "No One is Illegal".  The focus of this
> will be on the WTO's links to colonial genocide, militarization and war,
> as well as the displacement of migrants (this march follows from the No
> One Is Illegal march, of more than 5000 people, last June in Ottawa
> against the G8).  Other specific events will be announced in future
> updates.
> 
>          ************************************************
>                 The WTO -  VEHICLE OF OPPRESSION
>          ************************************************
> 
> With 146 member countries, the WTO is the world's most powerful
> instrument
> in controlling international trade.  It is a main vehicle of the
> 'neoliberal' agenda -- a philosophy in which everything and everyone is
> reduced to a commodity to be bought and sold in markets, with the
> ultimate
> goal being a relentless expansion of profits.  In concrete terms, the
> WTO
> administers over 20 agreements, facilitates future trade negotiations,
> and
> oversees and enforces trade dispute resolution - a secret process which
> allows countries to challenge each others' laws as violations of WTO
> rules.  Since its inception in 1995, the net effect of the WTO has been
> to
> undermine governments' capacity to implement progressive labour, social,
> health, safety or environmental laws, and to jeopardize the rights of
> peoples to determine their own futures.
> 
> But after being shut down in Seattle in 1999 and forced to hide out in
> Qatar in 2001, the WTO process has begun to unravel beneath the weight
> of
> its own illegitimacy.  Externally, it is universally reviled as a symbol
> of corporate domination; internally, the majority of its own members are
> fed up with being shoved around by a minority of powerful interests.  A
> powerful popular resistance in Montreal will help to unsteady the WTO so
> that protesters massed in Cancun can deliver the knockout blow.
> 
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>                      OVERALL BASIS OF UNITY
>          ************************************************
> 
> The basis of unity of the organizing assembly ("Mobilization Against the
> WTO Mini-Ministerial in Montreal") is the PGA Hallmarks (see
> www.agp.org),
> a set of principles which have evolved out the struggles in the global
> south.  They are as follows:
> 
> 1. A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all
> trade agreements, institutions and governments that promote destructive
> globalisation;
> 
> 2. We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination
> including, but not limited to, patriarchy, racism and religious
> fundamentalism of all creeds. We embrace the full dignity of all human
> beings.
> 
> 3. A confrontational attitude, since we do not think that lobbying can
> have a major impact in such biased and undemocratic organisations, in
> which transnational capital is the only real policy-maker;
> 
> 4. A call to direct action and civil disobedience, support for social
> movements' struggles, advocating forms of resistance which maximize
> respect for life and oppressed peoples' rights, as well as the
> construction of local alternatives to global capitalism;
> 
> 5. An organisational philosophy based on decentralisation and autonomy.
> 
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>                      CONTACTS / GETTING HERE
>          ************************************************
> 
> A Montreal organizing site will be online soon at
> http://montreal.resist.ca at which updated information will be posted
> regularly.
> 
> Meanwhile info updates in English and French about Montreal-area
> organizing against the WTO are available via the wto-montreal-announce
> e-mail list which you can join by visiting the following webpage:
> http://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wto-montreal-announce
> 
> For people coming from out of town needing transportation and/or
> accommodations, please see http://web.infiniweb.ca/leprof/
> 
> Contact "Mobilization Against the WTO Mini-Ministerial in Montreal" at:
> resisteomc at resist.ca or by phone at (514) 409-2049
> 
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