[asia-apec 1198] Alternatives to the APEC Agenda Conference

[Gatt Watchdog]

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: notoapaec 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.

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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.

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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
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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

and speakers from Mexico, Japan and Korea

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)



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

4.30pm Rally (venue and details to be arranged)

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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.)

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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, by 20 August 1999

Enquiries to: notoapec at clear.net.nz