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CANCUN
EVENTS in chronological order of first start date.
(This list primarily includes large multi-organization forums
and is based on information
publicized to date. Individual events or workshops organized by
specific groups will also
be plentiful. A full schedule will be available upon arrival in
Cancún.)
**Sept
10th, Massive Peasant and Farmers March, September 10th, time
TBA
**Sept
13th, Massive march Against the WTO, part of the Worldwide Day
of
Action Against Corporate Globalization and Militarism
World
Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers, Sept 5-9th
September 5 Opening of the WFF Coordination Committee meeting
September 6 WFF Coordination Committee meeting (continued)
September 7 International meeting of Fish Harvesters in Isla Mujeres.
September 8 - 9 Workshop with fish harvesters¹ organizations
from
different countries.
Closure of the WFF Coordination Committee meeting.
For more information
Pedro Avedaño, Presidente, Foro Mundial de Pescadores [email protected]
Social
Movements´ Assembly, Sept 7th, 8th, & 11th
Update on World Social Forum, Mumbai, and Anti-war activists
meeting
Location: SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union) or the Ex-Palenque
Sept 7th: 4 pm - 8 pm. Update on the social movements from
Porto Alegre to
Cancun. Update and discusstion on information from Via Campesina.
Talks by
Walden Bello - Focus on the Global South, and Raffaela Bolini
- ARCI.
Sept 8th: 10 am - 2 pm. Coordinating a common agenda from
Cancun to Mumbai
>From the information by the Network Contact Group. Update
by members of the
WSF 2004 Indian Organizing Committee and by the WSF International
Secretariat
Sept 8th: 4 pm - 7 pm - Antiwar activists meeting: strategies
and
organization. (includes the debate on the International People's
Tribunal),
with discussion and updates from the Jakarta Peace Consensus network,
European antiwar social movements and the Continental Campaign
Against
Militarization.
Sept 11th, 1-6 pm "Launch of the WSF 2004: From Cancún
to India (Int¹l
Council of the World Social Forum) Ex-Palenque
Grupo de Contacto de la Red de los Movimientos Sociales.
Rua General Jardim, 660 7o andar. 01223-010 São Paulo-SP,
Brasil.
tel/fax: (55 11) 3237 2122. http://www.movsoc.org
Forum
of the International Parlamentary Network,
Sept 8th
Hotel Fiesta Americana Condesa Cancun, Blvd Kukulkan Km 16.5
Hosted by the Mexican Senate, this meeting will provide an opportunity
to
discuss the rules of international trade and realice new proposals
to
achieve equitable and fair trade. The International Parlamentary
Network
defends the role of parlamentarians in international trade negotiaoins
and
has a platform of concrete proposals for the agenda of the WTO.
International
Women and Trade Forum, Sept 8-9th
Hotel Best Western, Plaza Caribe Tulum & Uxmal Lote 19, Cancun
The International Women's Forum is the space for the articulation
of their
organizations' activities, within the People's Forum for an Alternative
to
the WTO, before and during the meeting of the Minister of the
World Trade
Organization, in Cancun, in September 2003.
Tel/fax: 52 (55) 5 544-2202, Tel. 52 (55) 5 544-6902
For more information [email protected]
or
[email protected]
INTERNATIONAL
INDIGENOUS AND FARMERS FORUM, Sept 8-11th
"Foodsovereignty and free trade"
For this Forum we invite invite other movements and befriended
NGO¹s to
participate and co-organise some parts of this Forum together
with us. We
expect about 2500 participants and we will work in Spanish, English
and
Maya. Location: Gimnasio Cuxil Baxaal
The Forum has 4 parts:
1) 8th of September will be organsied by peasant organisations
and they will
set the agenda and the debates. Other movements and NGO¹s
are invited to
participate however it will be above all a space exchange between
peasant
organisations. After the inauguration and the initial plenary
there will be
10 parallel workshops. Plenary meeting of farmer organizations
and their
friends regarding the agricultural agreement of the WTO, followed
by
parallel working groups on agricultural topics.
2) 9th of September will be a day of workshops. Gimnasio Cuxil
Baxaal, Casa
de La Cultura
10 parallel workshops from 9-noon and another 10 workshops from
12-3. Also
there will an indigenous round table 9-15h00. Working groups on
trangenics,
subsidies, Farm Bill, NAFTA, FTAA, PPP, and the impact of new
technologies
on small agriculture. At the end of the day there will be a final
plenary to
share the work done in the different workshops.
Including, for example:
9am-12pm ³Agriculture, Trade and New Technologies² (Public
Citizen, ETC
Group, Food First, NFFC)
12-3pm Biopiracy and Patents Panel and Workshp (ETC Group)
3) The 10th of September there will be a big panel before we go
to the
peasant march.
4) The 11th of September there will be an exchange between the
peasant and
the trade union movement. For more information regarding subscription
and
logistics:
[email protected]
The
International Forum on Globalization Teach-In, Sept 9th:
The IFG is holding a teach-in on alternatives to economic globalization
and
the WTO. Tuesday, 9 September, 10:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Teatro de Cancun Blvd. Kukulcan KM 4; Zona Hotelera.
Speakers (partial list - subject to change): Martin Khor - Third
World
Network, Malaysia; Vandana Shiva-Research Foundation for Science,
Technology
& Ecology, India; Tony Clarke - Polaris Institute, Canada;
Victoria
Tauli-Corpuz - Indigenous Peoples´ International Centre
for Policy Research
& Education, The Philippines; John Cavanagh - Institute for
Policy Studies,
US; Sara Larrain - Chile Sustentable, Chile; Jerry Mander - International
Forum on Globalization, US; Walden Bello - Focus on the Global
South,
Thailand; Alberto Gomez - UNORCA, Mexico Maude Barlow - Council
of
Canadians, Canada; Lori Wallach - Public Citizen - Global Trade
Watch, US;
Agnes Bertrand - ECOROPA, France; and others.
More information available at www.ifg.org [email protected]
³Imagine
That!² Corporate Awards Event, Sept 9th
Teatro de Cancun Blvd. Kukulcan KM 4; Zona Hotelera
immediately following IFG Teach-In
Event to highlight the corporations behind the scenes who have
most
egregiously lobbied governments to write the rules of the global
economy for
corporate profit at the expense of communities and the environment.
Sponsored By the Polaris Institute, Canada, as well as Friend
of the Earth
International, Food First, Public Citizen, Global Exchange, Council
of
Canandians, and CorpWatch.
Global
Union Conference, Sept 9th:
Conference on ³Making Globalization Work for People: Respect
for
Development, Workers' Rights and Sustainability at the 5th WTO
Conference²
Cancún, Mexico, Tuesday 9 September
For details read here -
http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/newswire/index.php
People's
Forum for an Alternative Against the WTO, Sept 9-14, Ex Palenque
(mostly)
Organized by the Mexican Organizing Space, Bienvenidos a Cancun,
Continental
Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, and Our World Is Not
For Sale
network.
9 Sept 7-12pm ³Opening of the People¹s Forum & Farmer¹s
Forum²
Welcoming Political and Cultural Event, Plaza de la Reforma
11 Sept, 10am-1pm: ³Militarism and Globalization² AND
Report on the WTO
Negotiations, Ex Palenque
(Walden Bello (Focus on the Global South) Medea Benjamin (Global
Exchange),
Steven Staples and Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute (Canada), Tony
Tujan, IBON
Foundation (Philippines), and others from the Mexican Organizing
Space,
Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, Bienvenidos
a Cancun)
12 Sept,10am-1pm: ³Privatization of Services² AND Report
on the WTO
Negotiations, Ex Palenque Featuring internationally acclaimed
speakers from
around the world.
13 Sept: Big Anti-WTO March: to coincide with Worldwide Day of
Action
Against Corporate Globalization and War. Marches all over the
world. See
http://www.unitedforpeace.org for listing of events in the US.
14 Sept,10am-1pm: ³Environment and Natural Resources²
AND Report on the WTO
Negotiations, Ex Palenque
All events organized by the Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS,
Continental
Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, Bienvenidos a Cancún.
14 Sept, 5-11 pm: Closing Event of the Peoples Forum and Declaration
of our
Victory! Over the WTO. Ex Palenque
Third
World Network events, Sept 9-14th
All events in the Hotel Sierra (official NGO center in Hotel Zone,
Km 10 Ave
Kukulcan)
Sept 9th 8-9:45 am, ³Key Issues and Challenges for the Cancun
Ministerial²
Sept 11th 5:15-6:45 ³The Singapore Issues: What¹s At
Stake? What Will
Happen?²
Sept 12th 2-4pm: ³Whatever Happened to the Development Agenda?²
Sept 14th 10:15am-1:15pm ³The Cancun Outcome: Prospects and
Problems²
Forest
Forum On Globalization and the WTO, Sept 10th:
September 10: 9 :00 am to 7 :00 pm Hotel Calinda America Corner
of Tulum and
Brisa St. Downtown Cancun, Mexico Come participate in the Forest
Forum on
Globalization and the WTO, and hear about the key threats facing
global
forests and biodiversity due to the current agenda of the WTO.
Topics
include in depth coverage on how WTO negotiations on investment,
tariffs &
non-tariff barriers, labelling, and government procurement threaten
to speed
deforestation. Learn from forest activists about promoting fair
trade
through community-managed forests, sustainable certification processes,
and
new trade policies. The full day of events includes 20 speakers,
including
representatives from the Zona Maya Community Foresters & Wood
Producers, and
forest activists from Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Uruguay, Japan,
Indonesia,
Canada, and the US. Sponsored by Union Nacional de Organizaciones
Regionales
Campesinas Autonomos, Organizacion de Ejidos Productores Forestales
de la
Zona Maya, Pacific Environment, American Lands Alliance, Friends
of the
Earth-Japan, International Forum on Globalization, Global Exchange,
FERN,
and World Rainforest Movement. For further information please
contact:
Cynthia Josayma, Pacific Environment, cjosayma@ pacificenvironment.org
Indigenous
People´s Forum for an Alternative to the WTO, Sept 10th
Kuchil Baxal Gymnasium in Cancún, September 10 from 9 am
to 9 pm
The Forum is aiming to provide a space, unattended by the world¹s
leaders,
where grassroots voices will be heard and listened to. Its aim
is:
- to name and denounce the consequences indigenous people suffer
from free
trade policies
- to expose their organization and resistance strategies as real
alternatives to neoliberal economic globalization.
Topical Sessions:
Free determination of indigenous people and the WTO policies
- Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, Tebteeba International Center for Indigenous
People
Raiders
Militarization and natural resources in indigenous zones
-Ana Esther Ceceña, Instituto de Investigación Económica
The impact of WTO agricultural agreements on indigenous territories
- Carlos González, Congreso Nacional Indígena, Región
Centro Pacífico
Biodiversity, bioprospection, and transgenics and indigenous people
- María de Jesús Patricio, Congreso Nacional Indígena,
Región Centro
Pacífico
Indigenous women facing the WTO
- Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas
The Forum is being convened by: Foro Maya Peninsular-miembro del
CNI,
Autoridades Tradicionales del Municipio de Suljaa¹ (Nanmañi
N¹iaan Ndaatyuaa
Suljaa¹), Tribu Mayo Sonora-CNI, Alianza de Pueblos Indígenas
de la Sierra
Oriente del Estado de México, Comisariado de Bienes Comunales
de San Pedro
Atlapulco- CNI, UNITONA miembro del CNI, Asociación
Jalisciense de Apoyo a
Grupos Indígenas (AJAGI), Pueblo Purépecha
CNI, Organización Indígena
Independiente Huacateca, Semilla Nueva IxtepecPuebla, Xanaytiyat,
Xanatlaxaja-- Organización Médicos Tradicionales
Nahuas de Tuxpan Jalisco,
Comisión Independiente de Derechos Humanos de Morelos (CIDHM)miembro
del
CNI, Comité Independiente de Derechos Humanos y Grupo de
Mujeres
Various
Forums organized by Our World Is Not for Sale members, Sept 10-14th
Hotel Margaritas, Ave Yaxchilan #41, M. 22 Sm 22, Cancun
Sept 10th, 9-11 am, ³Debating Impacts of WTO Negotiations
on Consumers²
(Consumers Intl)
Sept 10th,1-4:30pm, ³Continental Campaign Against the FTAA²
LOCATION: The
Megaprojects Tent (SM 21) or the Social Security Worker¹s
Center, SNTSS
(Hemispheric Social Alliance)
Sept 10th, 2-4 pm ³Business Rules: Corporate Power, Agriculture
and
Biodiversity² (Friends of the Earth International, Public
Citizen)
Sept 11th 2-5pm ³Militarization, Globalization, and Resistance²
(Polaris
Institute, Focus on the Global South)
Sept 11th 4-6pm: ³Impacts of Trade Liberalization on local
communities
(Center for International Environmental Law)
Sept 11th 5-9 pm ³WTO, TNC¹s and Corruption² (IBON,
Asia Pacific Research
Network)
Sept 11th 6-8pm: ³Central American Free Trade Agreement²
(Friends of the
Earth)
Sept 11th 8-10pm: ³Views from Africa: Globalization and Recolonization²
(AIDC, Africa Trade Network)
Sept 12th 2-4: ³GATS Information Exchange² (CIEL, World
Development Movement
Sept 12th 4-6: ³Business Rules? Corporate Power, Foreign
Investment and
GATS² (Friends of the Earth Intl, Public Citizen (US), Polaris
Institute,
Canada)
Sept 12th 6-9: ³Views from Africa: Defending Our Services
and Rights² (AIDC,
African Trade Network)
Sept 12th 2-5pm ³Seminar on Bilateral Trade Agreements and
Bilateral
Investment Agreements² (Our World Is Not for Sale Network)
Sept 12th 5-8 pm: ³GATS Water Tribunal² (Polaris Institute)
Sept 12th 8-10 pm: ³Venezuela and the Current Situation Regarding
the WTO
and FTAA² (Global Exchange)
Sept 13th 2-4pm: ³Bite Back Bush: Stop GMO Force Feeding
by the WTO² (CIEL,
FOEI, Public Citizen)
Sept 13th 10-1: ³GATS Speak-Out: Water Struggles and Victories²
(Polaris
Institute)
Sept 13th 1-3pm: ³Workshop on FTAA and Investment² (Friends
of the Earth)
Sept 14th 2-5pm: ³Trade and Debt² (Jubilee South, including
AIDC and ATN)
Sept 14th 2-5pm: ³Road from Cancún to Miami²
(Our World Is Not for Sale)
Fair
Trade Fair & Sustainable Trade Symposium, Sept 10-12th
During the WTO ministerial, civil society and producer organizations
are
coming togehter to promote proven solutions to global poverty
and
demonstrate how good international trade rules can benefit producers
and
consumers. An International Fair Trade Fair; a Sustainable Trade
Symposium;
and a Fair Trade in the Americas Strategy Forum.
Hotel Casa Maya, Boulevard Kukulcan Km 5.5, Hotel Zone, Cancun
and other
locations. Hosted by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy,
Comercio
Justo Mexico, Oxfam International, Equiterre Canada, and others.
Please see
http://www.fairtradeexpo.org for a complete schedule or write
[email protected]
for more information.
Of particular note:
Inaugural reception for the Fair Trade Fair on Sept 10, 7-9 pm
with renowned
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Fair Trade pioneer, Rigoberta Menchu
and
other special guests. Feria Mexicana Hotel roof deck, Blvd Kukulcan
6.5
Playa Tortugas (between convention center and downtown)
Heinrich
Boell Foundation Forum, Sept 10-14th (except the 13th)
Plaza Caribe Hotel
Sept 10th 10am-3pm ³Trade in Services²
4:30-8:30 ³Trade in Environment: GATS and Gender²
Sept 11th 9:30am-3pm ³Resisting the WTO Grab for Water²
Sept 12th 10:30-12:30pm: ³Cultural Diversity²
1-3pm: ³TRIPS²
4-8:30pm: ³Agriculture and Food Sovereignty²
Sept 14th 11am-1:30pm ³WTO Reform²
Voices
from the South and Toward Real Solidarity Between North and South,
Sept 11th
Hotel Margaritas, 9:00 AM-1:00 PM
SIGTUR (Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights)
Co-conveners : KCTU (Korean Confederation of Trade Unions), COSATU(Congress
of South African Trade Unions) and CUT(Central Unica dos
Trabalhadores-Brazil)
9am-11 am Challenging the WTO - Our Tactics/Strategies and toward
real
solidarity between North and South
Simon Boshielo, COSATU, South Africa; Cho Heejoo, Korean Teachers'
Union,
Korea; Jo Vaccari, CUT-Brazil; Sophie Zafari, FSU, France; Walden
Bello,
Focus on the Global South, Philippines
11am-12:30pm Trade Unions: Challenges in face of Neo-liberal Globalisation
Rafael Freire, HAS, CUT-Brazil; Yoo Duksang, KCTU, Korea; Giacomo
Barbieri,
CGIL, Italia; Ferdinand Gaite, COURAGE, Philippines
For more info contact Lee Changgeun, +52-998-849-4606// Fax :
+52-998-849-4600, [email protected]
Forum
on Zapatismo y Resistencia, Sept 11th
10am-6pm
Casa de la Cultura. Organized by Juventud en Resistencia
Forum:
The Impacts of "New Technologies" on the Global Food
System, Sept
11th:
Join this discussion on free trade, new technologies, and the
future of
agriculture. New technologies, such as nanotechnology, food irradiation,
and
genetically modified organisms are critical to create a corporate-controlled
global food system. Neoliberal policies have already hurt local
and regional
economies, and that must stop.
Where: Casa de la Cultura, Cancun.
When: Thursday, September 11th, 2 pm.
Who: Wenonah Hauter, Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program,
Public
Citizen USA; Géza Varga, Hungarian Co-operative for Organic
Farming; Liana
Stupples, Friends of the Earth International, England, Wales,
Ireland;
Antonio Tujuan, IBON Foundation, The Philippines; Pat Mooney,
Action Group
on Erosion, Technology and Concentration, Mexico; Nadège
Adam, Council of
Canadians, Canada.
ON
THE GROUND
Ecovillage
>From September 5th to the 14th, ecological designers from
the US and Mexico
will produce an ecovillage model of practical solutions to the
corporate
takeover of food, water, energy, and land use.
http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/newswire/display/66/index.php
Global
Youth/Juventud Global: Uniting local youth, students, counter-culture
and direct action enthusiasts, the JUVENTUD GLOBAL group began
a campaign of
raising awareness by tabling and flyering a local Tanguis market,
holding a
press conference and showing a WTO video in Palapas Park.
They can be contacted at [email protected]
Any interested youth are welcome to participate in their activities.
Find
them at the Convergence Center, on calle Margaritas, or at their
Tuesday
evening assembly at 8 pm in Palapas Park..
Art,
Culture, Change, Puppetistas...
The artistic theme for the actions taking place against the WTO
in September
is that the Mayan gods are angry! They are upset that the WTO,
which is
playing a leading role in the exploitation and impoverishment
of their
people, is coming to hold their secretive little meetings on sacred
Mayan
land. Each god and goddess has a bone to pick with this conniving
group of
rich men known as the WTO:
1.
Chac, the god of rain, is very upset about the WTO´s plans
to continue
the privatization of water.
2. Itzma, the god of maize, or corn, is infuriated that the WTO
has allowed
the relentless flow of cheap, transgenic, and heavily subsidized
US corn to
flood the Mexican market, putting his people out of business and
displacing
them from their land.
3. Hurukan, the god of the Hurricanes, is ready to do some damage
4. Ixchel, the goddess of the moon, will make her presence known!
5. Kukulkan, the universal symbol for all of Mesoamerica, similar
to the
Aztec god Queztalcoatl, will be with us all during the actions.
6. Hunahpu, the god of the sun, will be urging the WTO to consider
the use
of solar energy.
Many more gods and goddesses will be marching with us, but they
need your
help to be constructed, created, and given life!
Volunteers
Available!
Rights Action, an organization that works to augment international
support
of popular movements in Central America will be acting as 'volunteer
placement coordinators' for the WTO events. Any organizations
in need of
volunteers, and any volunteers in need of work are encouraged
to let us
know what they have going on: [email protected]
Peninsular
Women's Forum (Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco),
by Ana Laura, Puente a Cancun
In preparation for the international meeting, local women organize
towards
September....
The Forum was primarily focused on information, as most of the
participants
were unfamiliar with Free Trade Agreements, the role of the World
Trade
Organization and the local and global strategies resisting the
WTO. Some of
the women participants had never heard of the WTO, while some
of the event¹s
organizers and panelists had received formal invitations to participate
in
the official WTO events.
http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/feature/display/53/index.php
MEXICO
SOLIDARITY NETWORK PROGRAM NOTES
For more information about these upcoming programs click the links...
August
11-16: Congressional Delegation to Mexico City and Chiapas
September 10-14: Cancun WTO Ministerial (MSN delegation)
September 14-Oct 5: Women
Confronting Globalization (w/ Mayan Women's Weaving Collective
"Jolom Mayaetik") Speaking tour to and through IL, KS,
MO, OK, TX
September-October: FTAA Road to Miami Speaking tour: US
Southeast
October: Immigrant Rights Speaking tour: US Southwest
November:
Women Confronting Globalization Speaking
tour: US Northeast
November
19-21: Mobilization
to Confront and Expose the FTAA Ministerial in Miami
November 22-23: School
of the Americas Protest at Fort Benning, Georgia
Mayday 2004: Labor
(Organized and otherwise) Delegation to Mexico (link to last
delegation)
Summer
2004: Women's Delegation to Chiapas and Ciudad Juarez
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