[asia-apec 816] Workshop: Globalization Intensifies Landlessness

[GABRIELA]

BEAT THE DEADLINE! REGISTER NOW! SEE YOU IN KUALA LUMPUR.

KMP (Philippine Peasant Movement), AMIHAN (Federation of Peasant Women
Organizations in the Philippines, Asian Peasant Women's Network (APWN) and
the Anti-Imperialist World Peasant Summit (AIWPS) - Asian Forum invite you
to their workshop on how globalization intensifies landlessness of the
peasantry. 

This workshop is part of the Forum on Land, Food Security and Agriculture
which PAN-AP and ERA Consumer (Malaysia) are co-sponsoring on November
11-12, 1998. The Forum is part of the Asia-Pacific Peoples' Assembly (APPA)
which will run from November 10 to 15 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia parallel to
the APEC Leaders Summit. 


WORKSHOP: GLOBALIZATION INTENSIFIES LANDLESSNESS
"Our Struggle for Land is a Struggle for Our Lives!"

November 11, 1998
Federal Hotel
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Objectives:

- To show how imperialist globalization intensifies landlessness of the
peasantry;
- To provide a venue where men and women peasant leaders can share their
experiences of resistance against globalization; and
- To formulate regional/international peasant action against imperialism
and its scheme of globalization.

Programme (November 11)

2:30 p.m.	Workshop Orientation
		by Teresita Oliveros, APWN Convenor, Workshop Moderator

		Welcome Address
		by Rafael Mariano, Chairperson, KMP

		SHARINGS

3:00		Movimento dos Trabaljadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), Brazil
		
3:40		All India People's Resistance Forum (AIPRF)
		and/or Workers Party of Bangladesh

4:00		Tea Break

4:20		Peasant Leader from South Korea 

4:40		Peasant Leader from Japan 

5:00		Peasant Women's Struggle for Land in San Francisco, Quezon
		by Carmen Buena, National Chairperson, AMIHAN

5:30		Open Forum

6:45		Synthesis by the Moderator

7:00		Dinner

8:00		Presentation and Adoption of Resolutions and Unity Statement
		Action Plans for Regional/International Peasant Actions

9:30		Closing Remarks 

9:45		Solidarity Socials