The World Trade Organisation will be meeting in Doha, Qatar, on November 9-13. So the Friends of the Earth Trade Campaign's having a meeting to talk about what we're going to do - information, demos, wacky costumes, direct action...?
If you're interested, come along - we only need you for a month!The meeting will be pretty short, very interactive and provide you with the information and resources to get more involved in stopping the WTO and ensuring real global justice. Tuesday October 16, 6:30pm at Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith Street Collingwood. For more info call FoE on 9419 8700. In November, the world's richest governments are aiming to expand the WTO and push ahead with the GATS negotiations. The beneficiaries will be multinational corporations while the losers will be communities and the environment, particularly those that at the margins - women in sweatshops, indigenous peoples and workers in the South. The tragedy of September 11 has the potential to spur a rethink of corporate globalisation. Unfortunately the world's most powerful governments are using the tragedy to push ahead with liberalisation through the WTO. More free trade will have one effect - increased power to corporations and increased inequality in a world where the richest countries have 72 times more wealth than the poorest. There is an alternative - and it starts with stopping the WTO. A safe world is a fair world. Say no to the wto and no to expanding it's agenda. ----- help keep FoE active - give a tax-free donation ----- Friends of the Earth Melbourne (Australia) PO Box 222 Fitzroy 3065 312 Smith St Collingwood Phone: (03) 9419 8700 Fax: (03) 9416 2081 (International: tel. +61 (3) 9419 8700; fax +61 (3) 9416 2081) www.melbourne.foe.org.au -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink