[asia-apec 781] Re: APEC '93 Seattle, WA No. 1

[jane kelsey]

David, thanks for the information. However you make two false 
assumptions: 

1. that people did not subsequently make those requests; 
they did in Tokyo and met with Japanse officials, which left absolutely 
no doubt about the futility of attempting to affect the substance of 
the APEC agenda, and  

2.that those who have been active critics of APEC have not 
considered the matter. Rather, many of us believe that meeting with the 
APEC secretariat or lead players would have no desirable effect, but 
would rather allow APEC to claim they are consultating with so-called 
'civil society'. The documents recently obtained under the Official 
Information Act regarding New Zealand government plans for NGOs in 1999 
confirm that this is purely a cyncial public relations exercise where 
any NGOs who are successfully coopted into that process will simply be 
used for the government's own pro-deregulation agenda. 

So, thanks for the advice, but no thanks to the strategy.

Jane Kelsey
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:13:59 -0700 (PDT) "David E. Ortman" <deo at igc.org> 
wrote:

> NOTE:  To provide some continuity between NGO activities at APEC meetings,
> the following are the issues of APEC '93 WATCH "ECO"  (#1-4) published
> during APEC '93 in Seattle, WA. 
> 
> APEC NGO's should also know that during APEC '93, representatives from
> environmental, labor and human rights groups requested a meeting with the
> APEC Secretariat during APEC '93.  This resulted in a two hour meeting with
> Ambassador Bode.  We hoped to set a precedent for future APECs of the APEC
> Secretariat meeting directly with NGOs.  However, I understand that not only
> has this not occured, NGO's have not even made a direct request for
> meetings, even in Canada last year.  I would strongly urge that a meeting
> with the APEC Secretariat and NGOs be requested during APEC '98 .   For more
> information, contact: David E. Ortman, APEC '93 NGO Coordinator, Seattle, WA
> deo at igc.org
> 
> ========
> 
> 
> 
> Seattle, WA                                  Early Edition  14 Nov. 1993
>                                              No. 1
> XXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXXX                APEC '93 WATCH  "ECO"
> 
> ---------------------
> ECO has been published by non-governmental groups at major
> international conferences since the Stockholm Environmental
> Conference in 1972.  This issue is produced cooperatively by
> groups attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
> Meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA, in November, 1993.
> _________________
> 
> 
> Welcome Delegates and News Media
> As part of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), non-
> governmental organizations (NGO's) concerned with labor, human
> rights and environmental issues have gathered in Seattle to
> address impacts of trade on citizens and environment of the
> Pacific Rim.
> 
> Tropical and temporal forests in Asia and North America are
> declining.  Contributions to global warming from burning fossil
> fuels in nonsustainable Pacific Rim economies are increasing.
> 
> The Pacific Ocean remains regionally polluted from oil spills and
> radioactive dumping.  This vast body of water is losing its
> biological diversity as fishing species decline.
> 
> Nautilus Pacific Research recently released a report entitled
> "Regional Cooperation and Environmental Issues in Northeast
> Asia", Study for the Northwest Asian Cooperation Dialogue of the
> Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, 1 October 1993.
> This report states:
> 
> "Ecological degradation results both from the increased pace of
> growth and changes in the industry mix toward more toxic and
> polluting industries.  Besides social and environmental costs,
> the 'grow now, pay later' strategy of unsustainable development
> is likely to generate large environmental financing needs in the
> future.  In a feedback effect, these costs could undermine
> economic future growth. 
> 
> "The 'pollution/resource extraction haven' strategy in Northeast
> Asia is risky on three accounts.  First, if pursued by all the
> developing countries of Northeast Asia, a 'vicious circle' of
> standards-lowering competition could result in a onslaught of
> environmental degradation.  Beyond high long-term social and
> health costs, rapid resource depletion and ecological decline are
> likely to carry high opportunity costs.  The income and
> employment stream generated by rapid and unregulated exploitation
> of Siberian timber resources, for example, may be less--perhaps
> far less--than the development of the Russian Far East as an
> international tourism asset.
> 
> "Second, companies and industries attracted by 'pollution havens'
> are likely to be low growth 'sunset' industries which face a
> limited future.  A development strategy based on non-dynamic
> companies is unlikely to bring technology transfer and knowledge
> spillovers which are crucial to sustainable, self-generating
> economic growth.
> 
> "Third, products manufactured or extracted from
> 'pollution/resource extraction havens' may face important
> barriers in the increasingly environment and health conscious
> markets of the OECD.  Northeast Asian timber resources may be
> especially vulnerable: global campaigns by environmentalists
> groups such as Greenpeace have already targeted unsustainable
> logging practices by South Korean, North korean and other foreign
> companies in the Siberian forests"
> 
> This is the type of analysis which should be an integral part of
> APEC discussions.  Instead we are concerned that the acronym APEC
> will stand for A Permanent Environmental Crisis.  It is our hope
> that President Clinton will come to Seattle in the spirit of the
> Earth Summit at Rio where promises of integrating trade and
> environmental issues were made.
> _______________________
> 
> BEYOND APEC
> 
> ENVIRONMENTAL PRESS STORIES IN THE ASIA/PACIFIC "NORTHEAST"
> Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Colombia.
> 
> Tired of Port presentations, Chamber of Commerce lectures and
> Boeing Plant tours?  Here are some suggestions:
> *Project Nighthawk
> Project Nighthawk has enlisted the help of local airplane pilots
> willing to fly press/delegates over Puget Sound and the cascades
> --at no cost--to show the loss of Ancient Forests in the Region. 
> Weather permitting. PL    Project Nighthawk XXX-XXXX
> 
> TRADE ISSUES/NAFTA
> 
> *Why did grass-roots environmental groups oppose this version of
> the North American Trade Agreement?  FOE, SC
> 
> *Why was a lawsuit brought against NAFTA for failing to have an
> environmental impact statement?  FOE
> 
> *Why are cigarettes the eighth (1992) biggest export from the
> state of Washington? FOE
> 
> FOE - Friends of the Earth 633-1661 David E. Ortman 
> SC - Sierra Club 621-1696  Bill Arthur
> 
> ENERGY ISSUES
> 
> *How did the region take energy forecasting away from the
> electric industry?  NCAC
> 
> *What is the NW Power Planning Council?  How did energy
> conservation become the number one priority for the Region?
> NWPPC, NCAC, NRDC
> 
> *How did the attempt by the Washington Public Power Supply System
> (WPPSS) to build five nuclear power plants lead to the biggest
> bond default in US history?  NCAC, SC
> 
> *How has the decimation of the Region's salmon resources head to
> the lowest electric rates in the United States? 
> 
> *What economic factors led to the recent closure of the Trojan
> Nuclear Power Plant in Oregon?  NCAC, FOB
> 
> *What renewable energy resources are available in the Region? 
> NCAC
> 
> *Why is the United States oil industry wasting the equivalent of
> three Exxon Valdez oil spills a day?  FOE
> 
> FOB - Forelaws on Board  (503) 637-3549 Lloyd Marbet
> FOE - Friends of the Earth 633-1661 David E. Ortman
> NCAC - NW Conservation Act Coalition 621-0094  K.C. Golden
> NWPPC - NW Power Planning Council (800) 222-3355
> NRDC - Natural Resources Defense Council (415) 495-5996 Ralph     
>    Cavanugh
> SC - Sierra Club 621-1696 Bill Arthur
> SOS - Save Our Wild Salmon 622-2904 Michael Rossotto/Tim Sterns
> 
> FORESTRY
> 
> *Why have Washington state-owned forestry lands been clearcut for
> exports?  WEC
> 
> *Are Federal and state of exports non-tariff trade barriers?  FOE
> 
> *What is a spotted owl?  Why is it important?  NAS, SCLDF
> 
> *What is landscape management?  SC
> 
> *What is the record of US Forest Service management of our public
> lands?  SC, IEPLC, WAFC, ONRC, WWC
> 
> *How did citizens use the court system to show the Federal
> Government was breaking its own forestry laws?  SCLDF
> 
> WEC - Washington Environmental Council 622-8103 Marcy Golde
> FOE - Friends of the Earth 633-1661 David E. Ortman
> ONRC - Oregon Natural Resource Council (503) 223-9001 Andy Kerr
> NAS - National Audubon Society (206) 786-8020 Jim Pissot
> SCLDF - Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund 343-7340 Todd True\Vic
>      Sher
> SC - Sierra Club 621-1696 Bill Arthur
> IEPLC - Island Empire Public Lands Council (509) 327-1699 Dave
>      Crandall
> WAFC - Western Ancient Forest Campaign 632-6041 Josh Marks
> WWC - Washington Wilderness Coalition 633-1992 Chris Carrel
> 
> RIVERS/ANADROMOUS FISH
> 
> *Why has Congress authorized the largest watershed/salmon
> restoration project in the country by the removal of two dams on
> the Elwha River  on the Olympic Peninsula?  FOE
> 
> *Why has salmon production in the Columbia River system plummeted
> from a historical amount of 20 million to less than 2 million
> today?  Why are approximately 500,000 of these wild fish?  SC, 
> SOS, AR
> 
> *Why are fish hatcheries bad for fish?  OT
> 
> *What environmental impacts are caused by hydroelectric dams? 
> AR, SOS, OT
> 
> *How are forestry practices related to the decline of fish
> population?  PSGN, OT, SC, SOS
> 
> FOE - Friends of the Earth 633-1661 David E. Ortman
> SC - Sierra Club 621-1696 Bill Arthur
> SOS - Save our Wild Salmon 622-2904 Michael Rossotto/Tim Sterns
> AR - American Rivers 545-7133 Lorri Bodi/Katherine Ranzel
> OT - Oregon Trout (503) 246-7870 Bill Blake
> PSGN - Puget Sound Gillnetters 937-1048 Pete Knutsen
> 
> WATER POLLUTION
> 
> *What are citizens doing to stop water pollution into the Puget
> Sound? PSA, PPS
> 
> *Why are bottom fish in Puget Sound afflicted with cancer and
> salmon showing signs of stress from pollution? PPS
> 
> *Why did the Washington State Department of Ecology say that
> their Federal programs for controlling pollution discharged from
> industries and cities was a failure? FOE
> 
> *Why does the State of Washington have such bad record of water
> pollution violations? WASHPIRG
> 
> *Why did citizens sue the Federal Environmental Protection Agency
> to correct or take back the State of Washington's NPDES (point
> source of pollution permitting system) program? SCLDF, PPS, FOE
> 
> *Why is Victoria B.C. (Canada) still dumping raw sewage into the
> Straight of Juan de Fuca? PPS
> 
> *Why has Washington State lost half its wetlands? WETNET
> 
> *Why isn't the Clinton Administration protecting existing
> wetlands in the United States? FOE
> 
> 
> PPS - People for Puget Sound 382-7007 Kathy Fletcher
> PSA - Puget Sound Alliance 286-1309 Ken Moser
> FOE - Friends of the Earth 633-1661 David E. Ortman
> SCLDF - Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund 343-7340 Todd True
> WASHPIRG - Washington Public Interest Group 322-9064
> WETNET - Wetland Network of Seattle Audubon 783-9093 Dee Arntz
> 
> AIR POLLUTION
> 
> *What is being done to control air pollution from home heating
> with wood stoves? WLA
> 
> *Why did it take so long to shut down the State of Washington's
> major air pollution source, the Tacoma ASARCO smelter? WLA
> 
> WLA - Washington Lung Association 441-5100 Astrid Borg
> 
> ENDANGERED SPECIES
> 
> *What wildlife and plant species are endangered in this region?
> NWF, WNPS, NAS
> 
> *What is being done to save the grizzly bears? GEA, GBF
> 
> *How is the decimation of habitat related to the increase in
> endangered species? GEA, GBF, NAS, NWF, WNPS
> 
> GEA - Greater Ecosystem Alliance (206) 671-9950 Mitch Friedman
> GBF - Greater Bear Foundation (406) 721-3009 
> NAS - National Audubon Society (206) 786-8020 Jim Pissot
> NWF - National Wildlife Federation (503) 222-1429 Jacquelyn
> Bonomo
> WNPS - Washington Native Plant Society 524-7928
> 
> TRANSPORTATION
> 
> *How has the region dealt with transportation policy? IT&E
> 
> *Why do merchants give out parking tokens--but not bus tickets--
> for shopping at their stores? IT&E
> 
> *What is Seattle doing about bicycle planning? IT&E, SED, NOWBIKE
> 
> IT&E - Institute for Transportation and the Environment 322-5463
> Preston Schiller
> NOWBIKE - 654-0276 Don Bullard
> SED - Seattle Engineering Department 223-3074 Peter Lagerway
> 
> MILITARY BASES
> 
> *How many U.S. Military Bases in the Region have toxic waste
> problems? FOE
> 
> *How did citizens stop the U.S.Navy from dumping contaminated
> sediments into Puget Sound from a proposed Navy base at Everett,
> Washington? FOE, SCLDF
> 
> *Why is Hanford, Washington, considered one of the most toxic
> radioactive cleanup sites in the U.S.? HOA
> 
> *What health impacts to the Region's citizens have resulted from
> the Hanford Nuclear Reservation? HOA
> 
> FOE - Friends of the Earth 633-1661 David E. Ortman
> HOA - Heart of America 382-1014 Jerry Pollet
> SCLDF - Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund 343-7340 Todd True
> 
> RECYCLING
> 
> *How has Seattle achieved such a high level of residual
> recycling? WCFR
> 
> *Why does Oregon have a returnable beverage container bill and
> Washington does not? WCFR
> 
> *What is being done to reduce overpackaging? WCFR
> 
> *What happened to Seattle's past landfills? WCFR
> 
> *Where is Seattle's garbage going now? WCFR
> 
> *Why have Seattle and King County citizens opposed the
> construction of garbage incinerators? WCFR, WTC
> 
> *Why have communities across Washington State opposed the
> construction of hazardous waste incinerators? WTC
> 
> WCFR - Washington Citizens for Recycling 343-5171 Jan Glick
> WTC - Washington Toxics Coalition 632-1545 Cha Smith
> 
> PESTICIDES/TOXICS
> 
> *What progress is being made on alternatives to pesticides? WTC
> 
> *How are Seattle and King County dealing with home hazardous
> waste? WTC
> 
> WTC - Washington Toxics Coalition 632-1545 Cha Smith
> 
> MARINE ISSUES
> 
> *How did citizens successfully oppose offshore oil drilling off
> the  Washington/Oregon coast? FOE, WEC
> 
> *Why did Congress establish a National Marine Sanctuary off the
> Washington coast? WEC
> 
> *What is the Region's history with oil spills and what is being
> done to prevent their occurrence? WEC, PPS
> 
> *Why is the State of Washington's Coastal Zone Management Program
> so weak? FOE
> 
> *What is the status of this region's marine mammals, including
> whales? GP
> 
> FOE - Friends of the Earth 633-1661 David E. Ortman
> GP - Greenpeace 632-4326 Cynthia Rust
> PPS - People for Puget Sound 382-7007 Kathy Fletcher
> WEC - Washington Environmental Council 622-8103 Fred Felleman
> 
> NATIONAL PARKS/WILDERNESS
> 
> *What is a National Park? OPA, NPCA
> 
> *How is a National Park different from a National Forest? TWS,
> WWC, NPCA
> 
> *What is a National Wilderness Area? TWS
> 
> OPA - Olympic Park Associates 543-1812 Polly Dyer
> NPCA - National Parks and Conservation Association 824-8808 Dave
> Crane
> TWS - The Wilderness Society 624-6430 Steve Whitney
> WWC - Washington Wilderness Coalition 633-1992 Chris Carrel
> 
> ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT/SUSTAINABLE SEATTLE
> 
> *What is being done to protect the U.S./Canadian Cascade
> ecosystem? GEA
> 
> *What is happening to move Seattle in the direction of
> sustainable development? SS
> 
> GEA - Greater Ecosystem Alliance 671-9950 Mitch Friedman
> SS - Sustainable Seattle 382-5013 Richard Conlin
> 
> POLITICS
> 
> *How do some environmental groups work on elections and endorse
> candidates for office? SC, WENPAC
> 
> *How did environmental groups lobby the Washington State
> government? WEC, PPS
> 
> FOE - Friends of the Earth 633-1661 David E. Ortman
> SC - Sierra Club 621-1696 Bill Arthur
> PPS - People for Puget Sound 382-7007 Kathy Fletcher
> WEC - Washington Environmental Council 622-8103 Darlene Madenwald
> WENPAC - Washington Environmental Political Action Committee 632-
> 7440 Beth Doglio
> 
> ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDRAISING
> 
> *What is an environmental foundation? BF
>  
> *How do environmental organizations raise money in the work
> place? ESW
> 
> BF - Bullitt Foundation 343-0807 Dennis Hayes
> ESW - Earth Share of Washington 622-9840 Maria Denny/Chuck Perov
> 
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> ECO is a publication of the Non-Governmental Organizations
> present at the APEC Meeting to present alternative trade models
> that incorporate sustainable development, poverty alleviation
> measures and the protection of the environment.
> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
> MARCH AND RALLY FLYER - Last page
> 
> Let's tell the APEC leaders:
> WE NEED FAIR TRADE...WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
> 
> We, the people, call on the leaders of the APEC nations to
> respect three basic rights in and trade pact:
> 
> *WORKERS' RIGHTS - The right job and job security.  The right to
> organize unions, bargain and strike. The right to health care and
> a decent standard of living.  Corporate responsibility in the
> community.
> 
> *HUMAN RIGHTS - Freedom of speech.  Freedom of religion. Release
> all political prisoners. Respect for international law. 
> Recognize human dignity.  Due process for all.
> 
> *ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS - Sustainable Development. Energy
> conservation. Preservation of sensitive areas and wildlife
> habitats.  Clean air and water.
> 
> SATURDAY, NOV. 20  MARCH AND RALLY BEGINNING AT 11:30 a.m.
> IBEW Local 46 Hall - 2700 First Ave., Seattle
> 
> SPEAKERS: Dolores Huerta, co-founder and first vice president,
> United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO
> The Rev. Dr. Robert L. Jeffery, Sr., executive director, Black
> Dollar Days Task Force
> Ron Judd, executive secretary, King County Labor Council, AFL-CIO
> Mark Dubois, executive director, WorldWise
> 
> Organized by Seattle Citizens' Host Committee, a coalition or
> labor, church, environmental and human rights organizations.  For
> more information call Washington State Jobs With Justice, 206-
> 448-7348, or Friends of the Earth, 206-633-1661.
> 
> 
> 

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jane kelsey
j.kelsey at auckland.ac.nz