Chart of International Activities

 Civil Societies Oppose the 5th WTO Ministerial 

 

 

 


AFRICA

Groups Organizing

Events Planned

Location

Date of Event

Est. # people

Contact Information

MAURITIUS

Organizations and people

Day of Protest Actions in Mauritius

Mauritius

September 10

 

N.Bullard@focusweb.org

 

 

ASIA

Groups Organizing

Event Planned

Location

Date of Event

Est. # people

Contact Information

INDONESIA

Indonesia Committee Against WTO Cancun (ICAWC)

National Meeting (a big national meeting to share information on WTO issues, formulate Position Paper and discuss strategy toward Cancun)

Jakarta

August 26-27

200

 

ICAWC

Rally to Ministry of Trade

Jakarta

August 28

 

 

ICAWC

Global Week of Action

Jakarta

September 8-14

1,000

 

ICAWC

Protest and Rally to Ministry of Trade and Parliament

Jakarta

September 8

100

 

ICAWC

People’s Stage (a one day activities of stage, consist of music, theater, speech, happening-art etc.)

Jakarta

September 9

1,000

 

ICAWC

Day of Action against TNC

Jakarta

September 10

500

 

ICAWC

Day of Action against US Imperialism

Jakarta

September 11

200

 

ICAWC

Day of Action against Privatization (Water)

Jakarta

September 12

200

 

ICAWC

Global March Against Globalization by Rallying around Jakarta

Jakarta

September 13

1,000

 

ICAWC

Day of Action against the destruction of environment (Mining)

Jakarta

September 14

200

 

ICAWC

Press Conference

Jakarta

August 28,

September 9, September 13

 

 

IGJ & ICAWC

Talk-Show in the Radio

Jakarta

September 8 & 12

 

 

JAPAN

ATTAAC Japan

Call for Global Peace March

(Participants will be expected from all over the country.)

 

Shiba Park,

Tokyo

Sept 13

 

Tel: 03-3813-6492  Fax: 03-5684-5870  attac-jp@jca.apc.org

  www.angel.ne.jp/~globalmarch/

 

Yoko Akimoto of

ATTAC Japan at NAG00562@nifty.ne.jp

 

KOREA

Korean People's Action against FTA & WTO

 

Korean People's Solidarity

(KoPA)

 

(both coalitions of various organizations and social movements)

 

Press Conference

-        Announcement of the beginning of week of actions

-        Announcement of the Korean delegation to Cancun

 

September 1

 

"Joint headquarters for the anti-WTO Struggles":

Sohi Jeon, sminchoi@hotmail.com / kopa@jinbo.net / +82-2-778-4007 (will be in Cancun after 4th September)

Mi-Kyung Ryu, mathildaryu@hotmaill.com / kopa@jinbo.net / +82-2-778-4007 (will be in Cancun after 7th September)

Jeong-Pil Byeon kilsp95@hotmail.com / +82-17-355-9964 (based in Seoul in charge of international coordination)

 

Rally

-        Small rally to coincide with the press conference and beginning of week of actions

 

September 1

Few hundred expected to attend

Campaign /week of action

-        Rallies and campaigns

-        Peasant rallies in major cities and towns

Seoul

September 1-6 (everyday)

100-200 people everyday

National mobilization

-        National mass rally as part of the international action against WTO

Seoul and other major cities around Korea

September 6

5,000 - 10,000 around the country

Education and workshops for activists

-        Education and teach-ins by various organizations of KoPA, targeting students, unionist, peasants etc

 

throughout August

 

Delegation to Cancun

-        200 people from 15 organizations to participate in the actions and forums in Cancun Mexico.

 

 

 

200

NEW ZEALAND

ARENA and Unite! Union

Mini-conference on alternatives to

the WTO "alt-WTO"

Wellington

September 5-6

 

Robert Reid email:

unite.union@clear.net.nz,  +64 27 415 6069,

www.arena.org.nz

ARENA and Unite! Union

GATS and Education gathering

Wellington

September 13

 

 

PHILIPPINES 

KMP

Rallied in front of DTI office in Makati City urging DTI Secretary Manuel Roxas II to reveal the government’s position in the WTO 5th Ministerial Meeting in Cancun, Mexico next month. The KMP are calling on government to “Reject Cancun Meeting! Get Out of WTO!”

 

Daily releases of articles or press statements will start today to get the media attention and projection of our position against the WTO.

 

August 20

 

 

Stop the New Round Coalition! (SNR),

Focus on the Global South

 

National call to stop the new WTO round: simultaneous multi-sectoral mobilizations

BIG MOBILIZATION !

Manila, Cebu and, Davao.

September 12

 

stop@focusphilippines.org

www.focusweb.org

 

Philippine militant and progressive mass organizations, under BAYAN (Bagong

Alyansang Makabayan - New Patriotic Alliance) and the International League of Peoples' Struggle- Philippines Chapter

All Leaders' Meeting on the Issues Related to the WTO Cancun 5th Ministerial Meeting.  Sponsored by BAYAN.  Speakers came from IBON Foundation, Inc. re "An overview of the Cancun Ministerial and critique of the Philippine position"; Kilusang Magbubukidng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement in the Philippines) re "What the Cancun Ministerial will mean to the peasants and toiling masses".             

 

 

August 22

Forum was attended by 100 leaders and organizers.

 

A Roundtable Discussion on the Philippine position on the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Cancun. Sponsored by the Institute of Political Economy in cooperation with the Congressional Committee on Globalization and Bayan Muna.  Speakers came from the Philippine government's Departments of Trade and  Industry and Agriculture, the Congressional Committee on Globalization, the private sector's National Economic Protectionism Association, the Institute of Political Economy and Bayan and Anak Pawis.

 

 

August 25

Forum was attended by 60 leaders, organizers and NGO representatives.

 

 

Forum on WTO and the Cancun Ministerial Meeting.   Sponsored  by the International League of Peoples'

Struggle-Workers' Commission, ANIB (alliance of progressive professionals and  anti-imperialist workers), Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement - the national center of progressive workers), Courage(organization of progressive government employees), and the All UP Workers' Union. The workers' calls: Land, Food, Jobs, Not imperialist plunder! Defend the national patrimony! Get out of WTO! and Junk WTO!

 

 

August 26

Forum was attended by 100 worker-leaders and organizers.

 

 

Public Forum on the WTO, by the indigenous peoples under the Cordillera Peoples' Alliance

 

 

September 10

 

 

The Peasant Movement of the Philippines or Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), National Federation of Fisherfolk Organizations  or (Pamalakaya), National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), National Federation of Peasant Women (Amihan), Anakpawis (Toiling Masses), Kilusang Mayo Uno and the COURAGE.

 

KMP Rally in front of the Congress office urging the Congressional Representatives to “Abrogate GATT!  WTO OUT of Agriculture!”

 

 

September 3

 

 

Press conference: Formal Announcement of the “People’s Campout” related activities. Media practitioners are invited. The KMP position paper on the WTO in Cancun will be distributed.

 

 

September 4

 

 

Protest- Rally in front of the US Embassy

 

September 7

100

 

Send off protest activity for the Government of the Philippines’ Delegates to the Cancun

 

September 8

 

 

Mobilization at the US-Embassy with the People’s Campout Against WTO. However, during a simultaneous protests/activities nationwide on September 10, we expect more than twenty thousand participants. 

 

 

September 10

3,000

 

AnakPawis( or, Toiling masses; a party-list),

KMP(peasant               movement in the Philippines), Pamalakaya(Fishers of

the  Philippines), Kadamay(organization of urban poor people),                      Amihan(organization of rural women), National Federation  of sugar workers, and Courage (organization of progressive                      government employees).

 

This will consist of an address by the Vice-President of  the Philippines, by a VCD presentation on the People's                      Resistance Against the WTO and Imperialist Globalization, by Professor Jose Ma. Sison, general consultant of the International League of Peoples' Struggle; cultural presentations; input by a worker leader on "The liberalization of  Trade and Investment and the General Agreement of Trade in Services; input by a party list representative on "Critique on the Govt's position in the WTO Ministerial Meeting and  the Bayan Muna Legislative Action Against WTO; workshops on "The Effects and Incoming Disaster Under WTO" by  affected sectors of peasants, workers, fishers, women and  children, government employees; cultural night and film showing; conference declaration, unity statement and call to action.                         This will be capped by a mobilization of an estimated number of 5,000 in front of the US Embassy in Metro Manila.

 

Sept 9 & 10

5,000

 

Cordillera Peoples' Alliance.

 

Protest action by the indigenous people and other sectors

 

 

Baguio City, Northern Luzon

September 10

 

 

Stop the New Round Coalition! (SNR),

Focus on the Global South

National call to stop the new WTO round: simultaneous multi-sectoral mobilizations

BIG MOBILIZATION !

Manila, Cebu and, Davao.

September 12

 

stop@focusphilippines.org

www.focusweb.org

 

RESIST (Resistance and Solidarity Against Agrochemical TNCs).

In the morning, a Forum on TRIPS and WTO at the La Consolacion College (an exclusive school for girls). This is in cooperation with the National Service and Training Program of the school. 

 

Manila

September 13

500 college students

 

Sponsored by BAYAN and the International League of Peoples' Struggle-Philippines (ILPS)

Multi-sectoral rally against imperialist globalization                      in front of the US embassy. 

                      

 

 

September 13

10,000

 

 

 

 

 


 

AUSTRALIA

Groups Organizing

Events Planned

Location

Date of Event

Est. # people

Contact Information

AFTINET, Peace and Justice Coalition,

The Greens, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad,

Global Justice Sydney

Public meeting making links between WTO trade issues and peace

Sydney

September 13

250

Louise Southalan lsouthalan@piac.asn.au

 

61 2 9299 7833

AidWATCH, Global Justice Sydney,

ATTAC

Teach in:‘The ABC of WTO’.

Speakers on WTO history, processes, agriculture, medicines, GATS, new issues

Sydney

September 9

60

Tim O’Connor aid@aidwatch.org.au

Labor Council of NSW, various unions

A series of workplace events raising awareness about WTO issues

NSW

September 8-12

500

Alison Peters apeters@labor.org.au

Global Justice Sydney

Festive march and rally raising awareness about the WTO and the situation of developing countries

Sydney

September 13

200

Sean Healy

Friends of the Earth Melbourne

Fiesta/street party to protest against the practices and rules of the WTO

Melbourne

September 12

300

Karrina Nolan  karrinanolan@yahoo.com

AidWATCH,

AFTINET

 

Book launch of ‘Behind the Scenes at the WTO: the Real World of International Trade Negotiations’, by Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa,

Sydney

September 6

150

 

 

 

EUROPE

 

Groups Organizing

Events Planned

Location

Date of Event

Est. # people

Contact Information

 

AUSTRIA

 

ATTAC

 

Soccer game on an uneven ground to symbolize

injustice of circumstances of different players

 

Vienna

September 5

 

 

 

wien@attac-austria.org

 

Austrian STOPP GATS campaign

 

public buildings (e.g. university, hospitals

etc.) in front of the Austrian Parliament

 

Vienna

September 9

 

 

infos@stoppgats.at

 

ATTAC group in Graz

 

Public Anti-WTO event during the International feminist ATTAC conference

 

Graz

September 11

 

graz@attac-austria.org

 

ATTAC group in Braunau

 

Street theatre and party

 

Braunau

September 13

 

braunau@attac-austria.org

 

ATTAC group in Linz

 

Event together with the University of Arts

 

Linz

September 6-11

 

ooe@attac-austria.org

 

Center for Encounter and active Non-Violence

 

Manifestation and "Cancun-Happening" (with info-stalls, actions and others) "Against military and trade wars" ("Gegen militärische und Handelskriege").

 

Vienna

Sept 13

 

M. Reichl

http://www.begegnungszentrum.at

 

BELGIUM

 

Belgian Social Forum

Meeting on Cancun and water privatization with Riccardo

Petrella and Raoul Jennar

 

Brussels

 

September 3, 8 pm

 

E-mail: marc.maes@11.be

Website: www.11.be

Website on EU-ACP trade negotiations: www.epawatch.net

 

 

 

Media action on the dumping of Cotton

Brussels

 

September 4, 10am

 

 

Briefing on what is at stake in Cancun, debates with

decision-makers

 

Brussels

 

September 4, all day

 

 

Departure of the Belgian and European official

delegation from the airport: "good buy" actions

 

Brussels

 

September 7, 11am

 

 

WTO-free/Our World Is Not For Sale- zone in front of the

EU buildings in Brussels (Place Schuman)

 

Brussels

 

September 9, noon

 

 

Demonstration in Namur

 

Brussels

 

September 13

 

 

De-briefing on the Cancun outcome, strategy meeting

 

Brussels

 

September 24, all day

 

GERMANY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forum 3: Information evening about the major  themes

that will be dealt with at the WTO  Ministerial in Cancun

Stuttgart

September 10

50+

 

 

Forum 3: Two Years after the attack on the World Trade

Center - Thirty Years after the Coup  in Chile

Stuttgart

September 11

150 +

 

 

Forum 3:  Attac Stuttgart -  following the Ministerial

Stuttgart

September 12

50+

 

 

Global Action day, whole day in the inner city,

Evening podium with  Live-Tel Line to Cancun 

 

Stuttgart

September 13

200-300 people

 

 

Forum 3: report, about Peoples Forum and WTO

Conference, from 4 of us who were in Cancun

 

Stuttgart

September 18

60-100

 

Friends of the Earth (FOE) Germany

Action with giant inflatable "monster-GMO-tomato" in front of Trade Ministry to protest gainst US GMO trade war at the WTO.  Attack Germany´s pro investment treaty stance.

Berlin

September 5

10 am

 

Daniel Mittler

+49 173 923 4747; daniel.mittler@bund.net; www.bund.net

 

 

FOE & 26 groups:  trade unions, churches and NGOs

Fatally Global? - A conference on the upcoming WTO

Ministerial

Berlin

September 5-6

at least 500

 

Local ATTAC 

FOE Germany

Actions in supermarkets on the WTO GMO case

Berlin

September 7-14

 

Sören Janssen

+49 4231 957 595, soeren.janssen@bund.net;

www.attac.de/gentechnik

 

S2B

Kick off of the global week of action

 

Bonn

September 7

 

 

 

March against globalisation and militarisation (global

protests and major march also in Cancun)

Bonn

September 13

 

 

 

HUNGRY

 

"Lehet Mas a Vilag!"  (Another world is Possible!)  + network

Public debate about the WTO

 

Budapest

September 6

 

Fidusz (FIDRICH Robert)

MTVSZ/FoE Hungary

fidusz@zpok.hu

 

 

Press conference and petition handling

 

Budapest

September 12

 

 

Leaflets distribution

Budapest

September 12

 

 

Global Project film festival with debate on WTO following each films, then alternative theatre program and  concerts

Budapest

September 13

 

 

ATTAC Hungary and some other groups

Demonstration

 

September 13

 

 

ITALY

 

 

Tenth edition of the march for justice Agliano-Quarrata “dedicated to the rights of others”

Tuscany

September 13

 

Alberto Zoratti

Albe@roba.coop

 

Blog: http://campagnawto.splinder.it/

 

 

“Gatsopoli” – a sort of living Monopoli where the essential services will be sold to some businessmen in order to inform about the risks of Gats negotiations.

Bologna

 

 

 

 

Info-points with panels describing the WTO in central streets as well as marches

Sicily, Palermo and Cantania

 

 

 

Teatri OFFesi

Street-theater actions all day long around the city, dealing with WTO and globalization

Pescara

 

 

 

MSF

Activities to explain the problems with TRIPs and health care

Rome 

September 7

 

 

In the central square there will be an info-point on the WTO

Lecco

September 7

 

 

 

-'forum of social movements' in The title of the event is "Stop the WTO - the Europe We Want",

- large national demonstration on September

6th, see also

Riva del

Garda (Italy)

September 4-6

 

http://www.stopwtoriva2003.org

olivier@corporateeurope.org

 

THE NETHERLANDS

 

A SEED Europe, XminY, and more groups

Business celebration @  the Ministers of Economic affairs and Agriculture. Message: “Thanks for making the rich richer” and referring to a selling off: “ Everything has to go”, “ More for Less”

Den Haag

September 9

250

Flip

Flip@aseed.antenna.nl

+31-20-6682236(wk)

+31-6-17836486(cell)

 

 

Month of preparations a ‘Lab’ will be open as info station/ working station for WTO actions

Amsterdam

Jodenbreestraat 24

Entire Month 12:00- 17:00

 

 

 

Presentation/ Discussion concerning WTO &  Agriculture

August 14

 

 

Presentation/ Discussion concerning WTO &  Investment

August 21

 

 

Presentation/ Discussion concerning WTO &  ‘free trade’

August 28

 

 

Presentation/ Discussion concerning WTO &  Dutch Delegation

September 4

 

 

NORWAY

 

Natur og Ungdom (FOE Youth Norway

Outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we will protest against the way the WTO Agreement on Ag promotes industrialized and export oriented agriculture instead of small-scale, locally based food production. There will be a small ‘funeral’ for small-scale, eco-safe agriculture.

Oslo

September 9

 

Irene Kristensen 47-90-50-33-86

 

NGO coalition for environment and

Development with 50 member organizations, the two Norwegian farmers' organizations, and ATTAC

 

Demonstration in front of the Parliament

 

September 10

 

Website: www.11.be

Website on EU-ACP trade negotiations: www.epawatch.net

 

 

 

SPAIN

 

Campaign "Prou OMC" of several NGO's: Attac Madrid, Casapueblos, Amigos de la Tierra [Friends of the earth Spain], Ecologistas en Acción, Caritas, several labour unions

 

 

Press conference

Barcelona

September 9

 

Website http://www.pangea.org/prou_omc 

 

E-mail: marc.maes@11.be

Website: www.11.be

Website on EU-ACP trade negotiations: www.epawatch.net

 

 

Demonstration with bicycles

 

September 13

 

 

SWITZERLAND

 

attac Switzerland

 

Speaker's Tour on Cancun issues

 

Several cities

 

September 1-6

 

1000

 

info@forumsociallemanique.ch

 

 

attac Berne

 

Symbolic Public Water selling

Berne

 

 

 

bern@attac.org

 

Anti-WTO-Coordination Berne

 

Demonstration and concert against WTO

Berne

 

September 11

 

anti-wto@reitschule.ch

 

Anti-WTO-Coordination Berne, Direkte Solidarität mit Chiapas

 

Symbolic occupation of Swiss Trade State Secretariat

 

Berne

September 1

 

anti-wto@reitschule.ch

 

Berne Declaration

Presentation of an anti-WTO Comic

 

Zurich

 

September 17

 

trade@evb.ch

 

The Forum Social Lemanique

Picnic near the WTO building, a human chain from the WTO across town to a Popular Assembly Against the WTO at the Jardin Anglais.

Geneva

September 6

 

www.forumsociallemanique.org

 

The World Council of Churches,

Lutheran World Federation,

World Alliance of Reformed Churches

and Conference of European Churches

 

Seminar on the 5th Ministerial Conference of the

World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Cancun, Mexico:

Why Should Christians and Churches be Concerned?

 

Geneva

September10

 

Rogate Mshana

 (0) 22 791 6031

Athena Peralta

 (0) 22 791 6336

 

 

 

NORTH AMERICA

Groups Organizing

Events Planned

Location

Date of Event

Est. # people

Contact Information

MEXICO

Chiapas, UNORCA, Student groups, Espacio Mexicano, PRD-istas, Carlo Giuliani Caravan, and farmers from Atenco

1,000 plus caravan to Cancun

then in Cancun continue with creative action

Mexico City – Pueblo – Villahermosa- Cancun

September 6-8

September 10- 11 Marches

 

CIEPAC

Ciepac@laneta.apc.org

Vía Campesina/ UNORCA

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Peasant Forum: Food Sovereignty and Free Trade

 

Cancun

September 8-9

 

Mexico: UNORCA

Forocampesino@laneta.apc.org

www.unorca.org.mx

International: HREF=

International Peasant March "For Peasant Rights and Food Sovereignty"

Cancun

September 10

 

Participation in the People’s Forum

Cancun

September 11-14

 

International March and Global Day of Action Against the WTO

Cancun

September 13

10,000

U.S.A

Tour of Shame, Mobilization for Global Justice

We will visit some of the institutions in DC that push the WTO's harmful agendas or are complicit in corporate globalization. We will meet at McPherson Square at noon and commence the tour from there.

Washington, DC

September 12

500

www.globalizethis.org

SWOP Annual Chili Harvest Fiesta, Southwestern Organizing Project

In addition to honoring our Farmworkers, we will have informational tables, speakers, and discussion about the impacts of globalization on our communities.

 

Albuquerque, New Mexico

 

September 13

1,000

www.swop.org

Say No to WTO: Teach In and Creative Action, United for Justice with Peace

Teach In and Creative Action

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

September 13

1,000

www.justicewithpeace.org

Rochester Social Forum, Rochester Labor Religion Coalition, Metro Justice, FNB, Rochester IMC

Workshops on WTO, TRIPS and local economic justice issues. Video screening, Street Festival, Rally and March.

 

 

Rochester, New York, USA

Sept 10- 14

1,000

www.rochesterimc.org/social-forum/

Money Guns and Aids: No WTO Public Forum, Rally and March, Thomas Merton Center

Town hall meeting on WTO featuring panel of labor organizers, activists and academics.  No WTO Rally and March

 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

September 12-13

 

2-3,000

www.thomasmertoncenter.org/ftaa

A Week for Peace and Global Justice

Free Concert and Social Justice Rally, March, Rally & Nonviolent Direct Action at Chevron Texaco Refinery,

Circles of Hope Preemptive Peace Making,

Neighborhood gatherings for Peace and Justice

San Francisco, California

 

September 6-13

2-3,000

www.actagainstwar.org

Revolution Summer, Environmental Health Coalition, San Diego WTO Alert, San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice, Activist San Diego, International Socialist Organization, Food not Bombs

Five day convergence in San Diego, in solidarity with the WTO mobilization in Cancun, including teach-ins on the FTAA and the WTO, and a rally and march to the border.

The San Diego/Tijuana border is possibly the clearest symbol of the globalization of oppression.  On one side, one of the wealthiest cities in the country, home to a huge biotechnology industry and home to the largest military concentration anywhere in the world. On another side of the border, the people directly affected by the "Free Trade" policies who are fighting to survive in poverty, and struggling to gain access to the United States.

 

San Diego, California, USA

 

Sept 10 - Sept 14

 

2-3,000

info@sdtjmobilization.org

 

website www.sdtjmobilization.org

 

SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA

Groups Organizing

Events Planned

Location

Date of Event

Est. # people

Contact Information

Encuentro Popular and Friends of the Earth Costa Rica

Organized a public forum informing the general public on upcoming WTO negotiations in Cancun: the following day was dedicated to a strategy session convening trade unions, student, youth, women, and environmental groups in the country to brainstorm ways to continue to collaborate together in resistance to the upcoming WTO Round in Mexico.

Costa Rica

 

 

 

Oilwatch

Is putting together a small booklet aimed at youth-student groups in the country and region explaining in comprehensible terms the WTO working structure and the main issues to be discussed at the negotiating table in Cancun.

Costa Rica

 

 

 

CEIBA-Mesa Global Guatemala

Meetings with trade ministers in order to make public Guatemala´s official position on agriculture, services, and intellectual property rights in relation to upcoming WTO negotiations.

- A series of educational forums with farmer and indigenous groups in the rural areas of the country.

- A series of educational forums in Guatemala City. - Organizing a "Camino a Cancun" bus tour from Guatemala City to Cancun, giving Guatemalan- and other activists from the region- the opportunity to participate in the alternative forums and protests in Cancun.

Guatemala

 

 

 

FOE Honduras and other Civil society groups

Organized a series of protests

Honduras

 

thousands

 

 

Friends of the Earth Nicaragua

Publishing position documents on agriculture and intellectual property rights. They are also actively organizing educational workshops - forums with farmer organizations in the country, highlighting agricultural negotiations within the WTO.

Nicaragua