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Fall WTO/Global Economy Actions and Resources This list compiled by: Mike Prokosh, United for a Fair Economy, 37 Temple Place, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02111; 617/423-2148; stw@stw.org; www.stw.org. Call him for fuller listings. . Call your Senators and urge them to oppose the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which would enslave Africa to transnational corporations and cut already-low public budgets. Urge them to support Senator Feingold's "HOPE" bill, which would support worker rights, environmental protections, debt cancellation, African development, and AIDS treatment. Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121 or 888-449-3511 . Congress may take up other harmful trade bills this fall, including "CBI parity" and permanent Normal Trade Status for China. For updates, call the Citizens Trade Campaign, 202-546-4996 . Tell the World Trade Organization: "No new round, turn around!" Transnational corporations want the WTO to launch a new round of trade negotiations at its summit meeting in Seattle, Nov. 30-Dec. 3. Instead, over 1000 citizens' groups around the world are demanding that the WTO assess the damage it has already done, and fix it. You can join thousands of protestors in Seattle. Call the Citizens Trade Campaign, 202-546-4996 for information about housing and schedule. On November 26 and 27, the International Forum on Globalization will sponsor an all-day teach-in. During the WTO meeting from Monday to Friday, there will be panels, protests, and strategy sessions for activists each day on different topics: Contact: International Network on Disarmament and Globalization, sstaples@randomlink.com . Join local support demonstrations on Nov. 30, the big protest day in Seattle. Contact 1-877-STOPWTO (toll free); Movement for Democracy and Education; 608-262-9036; <clearinghouse@tao.ca> . Urge Congress to oppose new round of negotiations; instead pressure the Clinton Administration for an "assessment round." Call the US negotiators with the same message: US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, 202-395-6890; White House aide John Podesta, 202-456-1414; Vice President Al Gore, 202-456-1111. . Support the Caravan that will tour the East Coast in November, then head for Seattle raising global economy issues on the way. In the Caravan are farmers, fisherfolk, and others around the world hurt by corporate globalization. Contact Michael Morrill of Peoples Global Action, 529 Court St., #509, Reading, PA 19601; 610/478-7888; <wtocaravan@pcan.org> Boston-area information: Lucy Parsons Center at 617-267-6272 . Support Jubilee 2000's campaign to cancel the debt of the global South's most indebted countries. 202-783-3566, www.j2000usa.org/j2000/ . Help educate your neighbors and co-workers about the global economy. Contact United for a Fair Economy, 617-423-2148, for their new workshop, "WTO for Beginners" Boston-Area fall actions . October teach-in at Boston College: 10/7: Noam Chomsky, 7 pm, St. Ignatius Church, Boston College stop on the Green Line 10/28: anti-sweatshop teach-in with a Salvadoran garment worker and Charles Kernaghan of the National Labor Committee, 7 pm, Devlin Hall 10/29: "Who Owns Our Genes?" forum on biotechnology, indigenous people, and corporate power, 7 pm, Robsham Theater 10/30: all-day teach-in with Ralph Nader, 9 am, Robsham Theater . "Understanding and Transforming the Global Economy," an ongoing montly series on global trends and implications for social change, 10/12. Panelists Ellen Frank (Center for Popular Economics) and Arthur MacEwan (UMass/Boston), 6:30-9pm, Central Square Branch, Cambridge Public Library; 617/497-5273 . "Bringing Democracy Alive," 11/11, a lecture by Howard Zinn. For more information, www.bc.edu/globaljustice . Haryanto, an Indonesian Nike worker, and Dita Sari, Indonesian labor rights advocate, touring the east coast in early October. Contact Campaign for Labor Rights, 541/344-5410, <clr@igc.org>. . Salvadoran garment worker and Salvadoran public sector labor leader, touring with CISPES in November, 212/229-1290.
WTO RESOURCES
. A Citizen's Guide to the World Trade Organization: www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/wto-book.pdf . The World Trade Organization: A Guide for Environmentalists; www.wcel.org/wcelpub/1999/12757.html . International Forum on Globalization: www.ifg.org/events.html . End the Arms Race's Arms Trade and Globalization Campaign: www.peacewire.org/campaigns/content.html .WTO Citizen Organizing Committee The website for citizens groups organizing for Seattle; www.seattlewto.org; mdolan@citizen.org . New Citizen's Guide to the WTO: 202/588-1000; www.citizen.org/newweb/publicat.htm Margrete Strand Rangnes, MAI Project Coordinator, Public Citizen Global Trade Watch, 215 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington DC, 20003; mstrand@citizen.org; 202/454-5106 Alice Slater, Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), 15 East 26th St. #915, New York, NY 10010; 212/726-9161; aslater@ gracelinks.org
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