Any other Melbournites on the list? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- "In Seattle, the puzzle started to come together. We actually saw the emergence of a citizen based alternative paradigm of how we need to organize the economy, how we need to govern markets, what should be the powers of citizens, what should be the powers of governments, and what limits should be placed on corporate greed...... And that is precisely what the followup work after Seattle has become.... Oh, yes, it's doable." We really couldn't have hoped for a better speaker to be coming to Melbourne pre-S-11. (Bill Gates, Schmill Gates.) Vandana Shiva is one of the most powerful and articulate opponents of corporate globalisation around. She is a great advocate of biodiversity and traditional farming methods over those favoured by patent holding multinationals and is considered the founder of ecofeminism. I recommend you check out a speech she made as part of the BBC Reith lectures if you haven't already. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/lecture5.stm She is speaking in Melbourne as part of the Community Advocacy Project's conference, details below: conference: global capitalism - local responses SUNDAY 10 SEPTEMBER - 9am - 5.30pm RMIT storey hall, swanston street, melbourne Bridging the economic and the social. A distinctive one-day conference to highlight hidden issues on the eve of the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, featuring world renowned ecofeminist DR VANDANA SHIVA. Who has been marginalised SWEPT ASIDE excluded in the processes of "globalisation"? welcome: by local Aboriginal elders panel discussion: What globalisation really means; the role of the state; women's responses to globalisation; the statešs role in developing culture. with: Associate Professor Rob Watts, RMIT Dr Lynette Dumble, GLOBAL SISTERHOOD NETWORK Associate Professor Terry Laidler, RMIT keynote conference address: by international guest Doctor Vandana Shiva >From India, the founder of ecofeminism and one of the world's leading campaigners against the devastating human and environmental impacts of corporate engineered international trade agreements. The conference will also feature DISCUSSION GROUPS on: - The role of Local Government in today's global context. - The need for true measures of progress and human well-being. - Lessons from various advocacy efforts and campaigns, successful and unsuccessful, including The Fair Wear Campaign. - Women's responses to globalisation. - The rights of people with disabilities - to be seen and heard. - Corporations chasing the 'Pink Dollar' and the real human rights records of those corporations. - Using the media effectively in campaign efforts. - The internet and democracy. - The use of international standards, instruments and avenues to achieve justice for Australia's indigenous peoples. - Third World Debt - what we can and should do in Australia. cost: $25 full, $10 concession more info at http://www.tce.rmit.edu.au/advocacy/cau2.htm ----- End forwarded message -----
