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PGA call to action against WTO summit in Qatar, Nov 9-13 2001

Chiapaslink | 05.10.2001 11:41

PGA call to action against the WTO summit in Qatar,
Nov 9-13 2001

People's Global Action calls on all grassroots social
movements, community-based organisations, trade unions, students groups, indigenous peoples, 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 immensly 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 genetically modified 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 takes place 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 campaings against the 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 trade ministers
attending the conference: demands for the publication of national positions, blocking of communications or of departures of delegations etc.
3) Mass co-ordinated 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 November 9th.
4) Decentralised local actions: land occupations, creative demonstrations of grassroots alternatives.... Nov 9th-13th 2001

Chiapaslink

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