[asia-apec 1264] Last call for registrations for Alternatives To the APEC Agenda forum

[APEC Monitoring Group]

26 August 1999

Dear friends,

There are still a number of spaces left for overseas and New Zealand
participants to register for this conference.

Please register as soon as possible and let us know that you intend to come.

Thanks

Aziz Choudry

>
>Details of the Alternative to the APEC Agenda conference,
>Auckland, September 10-12.
>
>AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND APEC MONITORING GROUP
>
>Auckland Office
>Ground Floor,
>Methodist Mission Building
>370 Queen Street
>Box 106 233
>Auckland
>Phone (64) 9 302 5390 extn 833
>or (64) 9 8463227
>Fax (64) 9 846 3297
>
>Mobile 021 217 3039
>
>Email: notoapec at clear.net.nz
>
>Christchurch Office
>Box 1905 Christchurch
>Phone (64) 3 3662803
>Fax (64) 3 3668035
>
>Email: notoapec at clear.net.nz
>
>Website: www.apec.gen.nz
>
>
>Alternatives to the APEC Agenda Conference
>Programme and Registration Details
>___________________________________________________________________________
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>
>Organised by the Aotearoa/New Zealand APEC Monitoring Group
>Sponsored by GATT Watchdog, CAFCA, and the New Zealand Trade Union
>Federation
>
>
>10-12 September 1999
>Auckland
>Aotearoa/New Zealand
>
>The Alternatives to the APEC Agenda Conference will build on a
>year-long education and action programme opposed to APEC and the
>global freemarket economic agenda which it is part of.  This has
>included forums, public meetings and other activities in
>Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland, Rotorua and other centres.
>
>Alternatives to the APEC Agenda will have a strong domestic focus
>on the impact of the free trade and investment, free market model
>on Aotearoa/New Zealand.  It will draw the links between this form
>of "development", colonisation, and the extreme market reforms
>which successive governments have implemented.  Speakers from
>around the Asia-Pacific region will discuss the implications of
>this agenda on their communities, and their peoples' responses.
>The conference aims to develop concrete strategies to expose and
>oppose corporate-driven processes like APEC and work on genuine
>alternatives to a fundamentally flawed globalisation agenda.
>
>Alternatives to the APEC Agenda is completely independent of
>official APEC activities and is not funded or sponsored in any way
>by any government or political party.
>
>***********************************************************************
>
>The APEC Monitoring Group
>
>Since the 1994 APEC Summit in Indonesia, the Aotearoa/New Zealand
>APEC Monitoring Group has been involved with ongoing research,
>education, media and campaign work on the Asia Pacific Economic
>Cooperation forum, and the implications of its agenda for
>Aotearoa/New Zealand and other APEC member countries.  Members of
>the Monitoring Group have attended alternative meetings on APEC in
>Jakarta (1994), Osaka/Kyoto (1995), Manila (1996), Vancouver
>(1997) and Kuala Lumpur (1998) as well as monitoring the official
>APEC meetings themselves and their impact on the cities that have
>hosted the events.  The APEC Monitoring Group is a member of the
>GATT Watchdog coalition and works closely with Corso and the Trade
>Union Federation.
>
>***********************************************************************
>PROGRAMME
>
>Public Meeting
>
>7.30 pm Friday 10 September 1999
>Methodist Mission, 370 Queen St, Auckland
>
>Speakers:
>
>Dr Jane Kelsey, Professor of Law, Auckland University,
>Author of "The New Zealand Experiment"
>
>Antonio Tujan, Director, IBON Databank, Philippines
>
>Moses Havini, Representative, Bougainville Interim Government
>
>Annette Sykes, Ngati Pikiao, Treaty of Waitangi activist
>
>
>Conference
>
>Where: University of Auckland Conference Centre
>26 Symonds St, Auckland
>
>When: Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September 1999
>_______________________________________
>
>Saturday 11 September
>
>9am Welcome
>Session One: Implications of the APEC Agenda
>
>9.30 Opening Speaker: Moana Jackson - Ngati Kahungunu; Director,
>Nga Kaiwhakamarama I Nga Ture (Maori Legal Service)
>
>10  International Panel
>Sunera Thobani, Ruth Wynn Woodward Professor of Womens Studies,
>Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Dr Alejandro Villamar, RMALC (Mexican Action Network on Free Trade)
Reiko Inoue, Co-President of Pacific Asia Resource Centre (PARC), Japan

speaker from Korea to be confirmed
>
>11.15 Local Panel
>
>Robert Reid, Trade Union Federation
>
>Bill Rosenberg, CAFCA (Campaign Against Foreign Control of
>Aotearoa) researcher
>
>Peter Wills, biologist, GE activist
>
>Leonie Pihama, Ngati Mahanga/Te Atiawa, Maori educationalist
>
>12.15pm Report back from the APEC Monitoring Group on the forums
>throughout 1999
>
>1pm Lunch
>
>
>Session Two: Alternatives to the APEC Agenda
>
>1.45pm Keynote speaker: Antonio Tujan, Director, IBON Databank,
>Philippines
>
>2.15 Panel Discussion
>
>Prue Hyman, Associate Professor of Economics, Victoria University,
>Wellington
>
>Jane Kelsey, Professor of Law, Auckland University, Author of "The
>New Zealand Experiment"
>
>Rex Varona, Executive Director, Asian Migrant Centre, Hong Kong
>
>Annette Sykes, Ngati Pikiao, Treaty activist
>
>3.45 Thematic Workshops
>
>5.30 Report back
>
>7pm Film: The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas (1996) by Saul
>Landau (Drinks and Nibbles will be available.  Saul Landau will be present
to introduce the film)
>
>
>
>Sunday 12th September
>
>Session Three: Strategies for the Future
>
>9.30am Keynote Speaker: Moses Havini, Bougainville Interim
>Government
>
>10 Panel discussion
>
>Mereana Pitman, Ngati Kahungunu, Treaty educator
>
>Aziz Choudry, GATT Watchdog
>
>Radha D'Souza, Asia Pacific Workers Solidarity Links
>
>Crispin Beltran, unionist, chairman of KMU, Philippines
>
>11.30 Thematic Workshops
>
>1pm Lunch
>
>1.45 Report Back
>
>3.30 End
>
>4.00 Rally Against APEC (meet Band Rotunda, Albert Park)
>
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>
>REGISTRATION FORM:
>
>(Please note: Due to venue restraints we have limited the number of
>overseas registrations to 40 places and local participants to 140.
>Priority will be given to ensure a broad representation of sectors
>and community interests.)
>
>Name......................................................................
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>Organisation..............................................................
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>Brief description of organisation.....................
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>Address..................................................................
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>Phone...................................................................
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>Email..................................................................
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>Please register me for the
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>(   ) Alternatives to the APEC Agenda Conference 11/12 September
>1999
>
>I enclose a registration fee of
>(   ) $50.00 waged                    (   ) $25.00 low waged
>(   ) $15.00 unwaged                  (   ) $ .......Donation
>
>(   ) High waged people or organisations suggested fee $75.00
>
>(   ) I plan to attend the film showing and social
>
>(   ) Accommodation.  We ask that participants try and find their
>own accommodation.  If you need help in this please tick here.
>
>
>Please make cheques payable to:
>Aotearoa/New Zealand Monitoring Group
>
>Please send your registration form to APEC Monitoring Group, Box
>106 233, Auckland, as soon as possible
>
>Enquiries to: notoapec at clear.net.nz