[asia-apec 801] People's Campaign Against Imperialist Globalization: November Activities

[GABRIELA]

>The PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST IMPERIALIST GLOBALIZATION announces the
following international actions against APEC and globalization to be held
this November, the month when the heads of state of APEC-member
countries/economies will meet in a summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 
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>This year, we will go beyond discussing the negative impact of
globalization on the people and the environment. We will share strategies
which people's movements use to resist monopoly capitalism and its scheme
of globalization. We will discuss alternatives to globalization and plan
regional and international people's campaigns and other actions against
imperialism.
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>We hope that you can attend any of these anti-globalization activities.
Please get in touch with the respective secretariat whose e-mail address we
have indicated below.
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>Those who will not be able to attend are enjoined to send in papers which
can be distributed to the participants for mutual learning. 
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>INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALTERNATIVES TO GLOBALIZATION
>Sponsored by BAYAN and IBON Foundation
>November 7-9
>Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP)
>Tagaytay City, Philippines
>Conference Secretariat: <iped at info.com.ph>
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>INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST PRIVATIZATION OF HEALTH CARE
>"Fostering International Solidarity 
>Against Imperialist Impositions on Health Care"
>sponsored by Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD)
>Council for Health and Development (CHD)
>Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) 
>and Community Medicine Development Foundation (COMMED)
>November  5-10 Integration with Basic Sectors
>November 11-13 Conference Proper
>Manila, Philippines
>Conference Secretariat: <chd at compass.com.ph>
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>INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST MINING TNCs
>"Linking Peoples' Resistance Against Imperialist Plunder and Domination"
>sponsored by BAYAN, Cordillera People's Alliance (CPA) 
>and other members of the Philippine Organizing Committee (POC)
>November  9-13 Fact Finding Mission 
>November 14-16 Conference Proper
>November    17 People's Protest Action
>Palm Plaza Hotel
>Malate, Manila, Philippines
>Conference Secretariat: <bayan at iname.com>
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>Within the 
>3RD INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE AGAINST APEC
>"Women, Resist Globalization! Assert Women's Rights!"
>November 8-9, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
>Conference Secretariat: <panap at panap.po.my>
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>are the following workshops:
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>WORKSHOP ON STRATEGIES, GAINS AND CHALLENGES
>IN WOMEN'S STRUGGLE AGAINST GLOBALIZATION
>sponsored by GABRIELA 
>Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law & Development (APWLD) 
>Society for Rural Education and Development (SRED), Madras 
>and Tamilnadu Women's Forum
>2:00 - 10:00 p.m., November 8
>Workshop Secretariat: <apwld at chmai.loxinfo.co.th>
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>ASIAN INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S WORKSHOP
>sponsored by the Asian Indigenous Women's Network (AIWN)
>and TEBTEBBA Foundation
>afternoons of November 8-9 and November 10
>Workshop Secretariat: <bas at skyinet.net>  
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>Within the 
>ASIA-PACIFIC PEOPLES' ASSEMBLY (APPA)
>"Confronting Globalization, Reasserting Peoples' Rights!"
>November 10-15, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
>APPA Secretariat: <appasec at tm.net.my>
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>are the following:
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>ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON THE
>US-JAPAN MILITARIST AGENDA IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
>"Iron Fists Shield Globalization from People's Resistance"
>sponsored by BAYAN and the Asia-Wide Campaign (AWC)
>November 11-12
>Secretariat: <bayan at iname.com>
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>FORUM ON LAND FOOD SECURITY AND AGRICULTURE, within which we have the:
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>WORKSHOP ON PEASANT MEN AND WOMEN'S STRUGGLE FOR LAND
>sponsored by KMP (Peasant Movement in the Philippines)
>AMIHAN (Federation of Peasant Women Organizations)
>Asian Peasant Women's Network (APWN) and the
>Anti-Imperialist World Peasant Summit (AIWPS) - Asian Forum
>2:00 - 10:00 p.m., November 11
>Workshop Secretariat: <kmp at info.com.ph>
>Forum Secretariat: <panap at panap.po.my>
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>WORKSHOP ON GLOBALIZATION AND FISHERIES
>"Fisherfolk Say No to Monopoly Capital's Thirst for Profit"
>sponsored by PAMALAKAYA (National Federation of Fisherfolk Organizations
in the Philippines) and NACFAR (Nationwide Coalition of Fisherfolk for
Aquatic Reform - Philippines)
>2:00 - 10:00 p.m., November 11
>Workshop Secretariat: <pampil at skyinet.net> 
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>The Philippine convenors of the People's Campaign Against Imperialist
Globalization include BAYAN (New Patriotic Alliance), KMU (May 1st
Movement), KMP (Philippine Peasant Movement), GABRIELA (national alliance
of women's organizations), LFS (League of Filipino Students), Cordillera
People's Alliance (CPA) and KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of
People's Rights). The People's Campaign can be reached through BAYAN at
<bayan at iname.com> or telephone/fax (63-2) 922 5211. 
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