>Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 11:11:43 +0200 >X-Authentication-Warning: emiliano.ras.eu.org: uucp set sender to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f >Reply-To: "Laurent JESOVER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "Laurent JESOVER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 11:00:41 +0200 >Organization: ATTAC >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 >Subject: [ATTAC] Millenium Round (citizen's guide) >X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/481 >X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For your information... > > > THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: A Citizen's Guide > > The World Trade Organization is quickly emerging > from the shadows as the most powerful international > organization in the world today. Some analysts > see it as the new world government, millenium style. > > The WTO has proven that it can successfully order > governments to set aside their own policies in > favour of WTO measures. > > Canada has seen the WTO intervene in cultural > policy to force the abandonment of measures > protecting Canadian magazines. Europe has seen > the WTO order European countries to accept the > importation of hormone-treated Canadian beef in > spite of healt concerns. > > Now the WTO is expected to attack Canadian drug > patent policy, the auto pact, and farm marketing > boards. > > The WTO has become the enforcement arm of the > world's largest corporations who demand unfettered > access to all countries' markets and elimination > of any measures that they consider harmful. > > In this pioneering book, trade expert Steven > Shrybman offers an independent, knowledgeable > intorduction to the WTO, its history, structure > and its policies. His analysis of recent WTO > decisiions shows what kind of a world we will > have if national governments continue to allow > their sovereign powers to be subjected to the WTO. > > Steven Shrybman is a lawyer, and is executive > director of the West Coast Environmental Law > Association. > > Co-published with the Canadian Centre for Policy > Alternatives. > > In (Canadian) bookstores in September. > $19.95 (Cdn) paperback > > James Lorimer & Company Ltd, Publishers > ....................................... >For more info, try contacting: > > The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 804-251 Laurier Ave. W. Ottawa, ON K1P 5J6 > http://www.policyalternatives.ca > > > >-- >Attac discussion list >For any information about the list and the work done by the Association > http://attac.org/ <http://attac.org/> >if you want to be taken off the list: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >
