Hi again, sorry - i don't think that went through as an attachment. Here (below) is what I was wondering if anyone is interested in going (NYC/carpooling).... renada ------------------------------------------ Globalization, Animal Rights, and the Environment
A Film and Slide Presentation Sponsored by Global Justice for Animals (http://freetradekillsanimals.org) , Times Up! (http://times-up.org) , and the NYC People's Referendum on Free Trade (http://tradejustice.org) When: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 8PM Where: Times Up!, 49 East Houston Street between Mott and Mulberry Streets. R/W to Prince, 6 to Bleecker, B, D, F, V to Broadway-Lafayette. For more info: Call (347) 436-0458 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free trade agreements and institutions like GATT, NAFTA, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have had disastrous implications for animals. Learn about this grim history, the new round of free trade agreements-- one of which may be voted on THIS MONTH in Congress, and what we can do to prevent their passage. Featuring a slide presentation, "Free Trade Kills Animals" and the film "WTO: Wrecking Animal Protection." ABOUT THE SLIDE PRESENTATION Free Trade Kills Animals Presented by Alex Ross and Jessica Medina Kuroki of Global Justice for Animals The proposed free trade deals with Peru and Panama, if passed, will have devastating impacts on wildlife, farmed animals and the environment. Peru and Panama already face dire environmental threats-- coal, oil and timber interests are ravaging the Peruvian Amazon, while shrimp farms are destroying the Panamanian mangrove forest, and forest wildlife are being driven into extinction as a result. But these trade agreements will make a bad situation worse, by providing new investor protections for corporations that will allow corporations to sue countries over losses on investments as a result of enforcement of environmental laws. By eliminating tariffs on US imports, the agreements will also allow US produced meat, dairy, and egg products to flood these countries--towards consumption of factory farmed animal products. The agreements also encourage trade in live animals for use in animal exploitation industries-- from US export of fighting cocks to US import of dolphins for dolphinariums. We'll also address the next threat-- free trade agreements with Colombia and South Korea. In this riveting and and thought-provoking talk, infused with vast historical background, gorgeous images of Amazon wildlife, and even humor, activists from Global Justice for Animals will expose what may be the greatest threat ever posed to animal protection. ABOUT THE FILM: WTO Wrecking Animal Protection A Film by Compassion in World Farming The World Trade Organisation (WTO), which is based in Geneva, enforces a worldwide Treaty, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which insists that free trade must take precedence over other legitimate areas of public policy, such as animal protection. For many years now the free-trade rules of the WTO have been impeding progress on animal welfare. And unless they are reformed, the WTO rules will continue to be a major block to attempts to achieve improved welfare standards. Under the WTO rules a country, or a group such as the European Union (EU), cannot ban imports even on ethical grounds. It cannot insist that its laws designed to protect animals or the environment must apply to imported products just as strongly as to domestically produced goods. These rules are making it difficult for countries to raise animal welfare standards within their own borders as their farmers risk being undermined by cheap, low-welfare imports. CIWF wants WTO rules reformed to allow countries (and groups of countries such as the EU) to be able to ban meat, milk and eggs that have not been produced to the same welfare standards as within their own territory. Wetlands Activism Collective, PO Box 344, New York, NY 10108 Phone: (201) 928-2831 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit these websites! http://wetlands-preserve.org * http://freegan.info * http://ftaareferendum.org * http://freetradekillsanimals.org * http://foodnotfur.org * http://furfreenyc.org * http://www.friendsofbradwill.org/ * http://andystepanian.com/ For announcements of human, animal, and earth liberation actions in New York City, send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
