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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 04:16:40 +0000
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From: Indigenous Environmental Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Indigenous Peoples at WTO
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES NETWORKING AT THE WTO
The World Trade Organization (WTO) will be in Seattle, November 29-December
3, 1999. This is their 5th anniversary. This WTO summit will lay the
agenda for WTO for the next 10 years. Trade ministers from 135 nations will
be welcomed by President Clinton who wants the WTO to begin a new round of
"free trade" negotiations. On Tuesday, November 30, from 12:00 noon to 2:00
p.m. a rally/march will take place in downtown Seattle with
non-governmental organizations (NGO's) estimating near 30,000 people to
show up. We are organizing for Indigenous Peoples to have a strong
presence at this historical meeting of the WTO which has become the main
rule-making bureaucracy of corporate lead economic globalization. This
globalization has diminished environmental, labor, public health, food
safety, culture, democracy and sovereignty of countries throughout world,
let alone the sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples in North America.
Corporate rule has increased patenting of traditional knowledge and
intellectual property rights of Indigenous Peoples, seeds, medicinal
plants, and even the human DNA of Indigenous Peoples. Protection of forests
and water is becoming threatened as these natural resources are defined as
trade good items protected under the trade rules of the WTO. Indigenous
Peoples in North America, the Americas and the world have foreseen the
consequences of economic globalization that danger the sustainble survival
of Indigenous Peoples. The WTO has not been open to the public or
Indigenous Peoples. The Indigenous Peoples Forum and Networking at the WTO
is the first step towards Indigeous Peoples to come together, educate
ourselves, and develop strategy on action to be taken on the WTO.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FORUM on WTO
Wednesday, December 1, 1999
Seattle University - 900 Broadway Avenue
Piggot Auditorium
6:00 p.m. Reception and Cultural Presentation
7:00 p.m. Panel Presentation
Moderator: Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, USA/North
America
Speakers: Debra Harry, Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism,
USA/International, presentation on bio-piracy.
Victorio Tauli Corpus, Tebtebba Foundation and Asian
Indigenous Women's
Network, Philippines, presentation on the impacts of the Trade Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
Esther Nahgahnub, Great Lakes Regional IEN, USA/Canada,
presentation of
the trading of water in the Great Lakes.
TBA, Interior Alliance of First Nations, British Colombia,
Canada, WTO
impacts on aboriginal rights and forestry.
TBA, Indigenous delegate, South America
TBA, other presentations.
9:00 p.m. Indigenous Peoples Response and Dialogue
10:00 p.m. Closing
Indigenous Peoples networking office:
Seattle University, Lemiux Library Room 108
(To be staffed starting November 28 and during the week of the WTO.
Telephone and fax numbers to be announced)
Indigenous press and radio broadcasting ("Native American Calling") will be
scheduled.
Indigenous Peoples caucus meetings and briefings at:
Seattle University, Schaeffer Auditorium
(times to be announced)
Other Indigenous Peoples activities and events to be announced.
Sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network and Seventh Generation
Fund, USA. In alliance with International Indian Treaty Council,
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism and many other Indigenous
organizations and nations throughout the Americas and the world. This
Indigenous networking promotes the principle that as Indigenous Peoples,
"We Speak For Ourselves" on issues that affect the future of our
communities and the world.
Contact:
Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
Tel: (218) 751-4967, Fax: (218) 751-0561
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.alphacdc.com/ien
Javier Kinney, Seventh Generation Fund
Tel: (707) 825-7640
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