From amittal at foodfirst.org Sat Mar 3 05:28:50 2001 From: amittal at foodfirst.org (Anuradha Mittal) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:28:50 -0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1737] ATTENTION --- Civil Society Activists Around the World! Message-ID: <0.700000824.130868388-951758591-983564930@topica.com> ATTENTION --- Civil Society Activists Around the World! Although the Battle of Seattle was successful in preventing a new comprehensive round of global trade talks from going ahead, this did not mean there would not be trade negotiations at the WTO. On the contrary, a whole new set of WTO talks on global trade in 'services' began in February, 2000, with formal negotiations due to begin this spring after a crucial stocktaking session is completed at the end of March. These so called GATS negotiations [General Agreement on Trade in Services] could have a dramatic and profound effect on a wide range of public services and citizens' rights all over the world. Below is a statement, Stop the GATS Attack Now!, which has been prepared by an international network of civil society organizations working on WTO issues. As with previous initiatives like No New Round! and Shrink or Sink!, we hope this statement will help to launch and link together a series of country-based campaigns on the GATS negotiations all over the world. We would greatly appreciate it if your organization would consider signing-on to this statement as soon as possible. The procedures for doing so are outlined below. It is our intention to collect sign-ons from civil society organizations in as many countries as possible before formally launching the statement in mid-March prior to the GATS stocktaking meetings in Geneva later that month. So, please let us know soon if your organization can sign-on! Instructions on how your organization can sign the letter: (This is an organizational sign-on letter only. We will not be adding individuals to it) 1) Send an e-mail to polarisinstitute@on.aibn.com 2) In the subject line type in "GATS Attack signatory" 3) In the body of the e-mail list the organization & country (contact information such as address, phone & fax is also appreciated) that you are signing on. Those who wish should mention how many people the organization represents. Stop the GATS Attack Now! As civil society groups fighting for democracy through fair trade and investment rules, we reject the outright dismissal by the World Trade Organization [WTO], some of its member governments and allied corporations of the vital concerns raised by civil society before, during and after Seattle. The smoke and pepper spray had barely lifted from the streets of Seattle when the WTO launched new negotiations to expand global rules on cross border trade in services in a manner that would create vast new rights and access for multinational service providers and newly constrain government action taken in the public interest world wide. These talks would radically restructure the role of government regarding public access to essential social services world wide to the detriment of the public interest and democracy itself. Initiated in February 2000, these far-reaching negotiations are aimed at expanding the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services [GATS] regime so as to subordinate democratic governance in countries throughout the world to global trade rules established and enforced by the WTO as the supreme body of global economic governance. What's more, these GATS 2000 negotiations are taking place behind closed doors based on collusion with global corporations and their extensive lobbying machinery. The existing GATS regime of the WTO, initially established in 1994, is already comprehensive and far reaching. The current rules seek to phase out gradually all governmental "barriers" to international trade and commercial competition in the services sector. The GATS covers every service imaginable - including public services -in sectors that affect the environment, culture, natural resources, drinking water, health care, education, social security, transportation services, postal delivery and a variety of municipal services. Its constraints apply to virtually all government measures affecting trade-in-services, from labor laws to consumer protection, including regulations, guidelines, subsidies and grants, licensing standards and qualifications, and limitations on access to markets, economic needs tests and local content provisions. Currently, the GATS rules apply to all modes of supplying or delivering a service including foreign investment, cross-border provisions of a service, electronic commerce and international travel. Moreover, the GATS features a hybrid of both a "top-down" agreement [where all sectors and measures are covered unless they are explicitly excluded] and a "bottom-up" agreement [where only sectors and measures which governments explicitly commit to are covered]. What this means is that presently certain provisions apply to all sectors while others apply only to those specific sectors agreed to. The new GATS negotiations taking place now in the World Trade Organization are designed to further facilitate the corporate takeover of public services by: 1) Imposing new and severe constraints on the ability of governments to maintain or create environmental, health, consumer protection and other public interest standards through an expansion of GATS Article VI on Domestic Regulation. Proposals include a 'necessity test' whereby governments would bear the burden of proof in demonstrating that any of their countries laws and regulations are 'not more burdensome than necessary,' (in other words, the least trade restrictive) regardless of financial, social, technological or other considerations. 2) Restricting the use of government funds for public works, municipal services and social programs. By imposing the WTO's National Treatment rules on both government procurement and subsidies, the new negotiations seek to require governments to make public funds allocated for public services directly available to foreign-based, private service corporations. 3) Forcing governments to grant unlimited Market Access to foreign service providers, without regard to the environmental and social impacts of the quantity or size of service activities. 4) Accelerating the process of providing corporate service providers with guaranteed access to domestic markets in all sectors - including education, health and water - by permitting them to establish their Commercial Presence in another country through new WTO rules being designed to promote tax-free electronic commerce worldwide. This would guarantee transnational corporations speedy irreversible market access, especially in Third World countries. The chief beneficiaries of this new GATS regime are a breed of corporate service providers determined to expand their global commercial reach and to turn public services into private markets all over the world. Not only are the services industries the fastest growing sector of the new global economy, but also health, education and water are shaping up to be the most lucrative of all "services." Health care is considered to be a 3.5 trillion dollar market worldwide, while education is targeted as a 2 trillion and water a 1 trillion dollar annual market. The chief executive officer of U.S. based Columbia/HCA, the world's largest for-profit hospital corporation, insists that health care is a business no different than the airline or ballbearing industry and vows to destroy every public hospital in North America. Investment houses like Merrill Lynch predict that public education will be globally privatized over the next decade, declaring that untold profits can be made through the process. Meanwhile, water giants like Vivendi and Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux of France are working hand-in-glove with the World Bank to compel many Third World governments to privatize their water services. Through powerful lobby machines like the U.S. Coalition of Service Industries and the European Services Forum, these and other transnational corporations have effectively set the agenda for the GATS 2000 negotiations. If achieved, this corporate GATS 2000 agenda will amount to a frontal attack on the fundamental social rights enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its accompanying Covenants and Charters. Not only will foreign-based, for-profit corporations be able to access public dollars to takeover public hospitals and schools, but regulations on health and education standards will be undermined by global trade rules under the WTO. Chains of foreign-based, for-profit corporations would be able to invade the childcare, social security and prison systems in all WTO member countries. Our parks, wildlife and old growth forests could all become contested areas as global corporate 'service' providers compete with one another to exploit their resources. Meanwhile, unlimited access to foreign-based corporations would have to be given regarding municipal contracts for construction, sewage, garbage disposal, sanitation, tourism, and water services. For many Third World countries, this invasion of peoples' basic rights is not new. During the past two decades or more, the structural adjustment programs of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been used to force many governments in the South to dismantle their public services and allow foreign-based healthcare, education and water corporations to provide services on a for-profit basis. Under the proposed GATS rules, developing countries will experience a further dismantling of local service providers, restrictions on the build up of domestic service providers, and the creation of new monopolies dominated by corporate service providers based in the North. By dramatically increasing market control by foreign service corporations and by threatening the future of public services, the GATS 2000 agenda would trigger a global assault on the commons and democracy both in the North and the South. Moreover, the binding enforcement mechanisms of the WTO will ensure that this agenda is not only implemented, but rendered irreversible. The time has come to 'Stop the GATS Attack!' We, therefore, call upon our governments to immediately invoke a moratorium on the GATS 2000 negotiations and devote the remaining two years of the scheduled talks to carrying out the following tasks: [a] conduct a full and complete assessment of the impacts of the current GATS regime and the implications of the proposed GATS 2000 rules on domestic social, environmental and economic laws, policies and programs with citizens' groups in all member countries [b] reaffirm the role and responsibility of governments to provide public services ensuring the basic rights and needs of their citizens in the new global economy based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related U.N. Covenants and Charters; [c] declaw the existing GATS regime by removing components like Article VI and the Working Party on Domestic Regulation that give foreign governments and transnational corporations the power to ratchet down public interest laws, policies, and programs such as quality standards for health care and safety standards for transportation; [d] guarantee the right of governments to require ironclad safeguards for public services [e.g. healthcare, education, social security, culture, environment, transportation, housing, energy, and water] that may be threatened by global trade and investment rules; [e] provide concrete incentives and resources, especially for governments in the South, to fulfill their universal obligations (see 'b' above) by further developing and strengthening the provision of public services based on peoples' needs rather than on ability to pay [f] develop mechanisms for effective participation by citizen organizations in both the formulation of their government positions and in the negotiation of any global trade and investment rules in the future regarding cross border services; [g] secure the rights and responsibilities of governments to enact and carry out laws and regulations protecting the environment and natural resources, health and safety, poverty reduction, and social well-being. rules on domestic social, environmental and economic laws, policies and programs with citizens' groups in all member countries; Finally, we call on our governments to end all IMF, World Bank and Multilateral Development Bank pressure on developing countries to privatize public services, especially in the area of education, health and water. Organizations currently signed-on to the "Stop the GATS Attack" Statement (as of March 2nd, 2001): International Fair Trade Federation (Canada & US) People-Centered Development Forum Public Service International (PSI) Union Network International - Asian and Pacific Regional Organisation (UNI Apro) Australia ACT Greens - Australia Australian Greens - Australia Conversations for the 21st Century - Australia Quest 2025, Australia Sydney People Against A New Nuclear Reactor (SPANNR) TROPO (Tweed Richmond Organic Producers Organisation) WTO Watch ACT - Australia Austria Center for Encounter and active Non-Violence Bangladesh Karmojibi Nari (KN) Belgium Life, the Ecocreactive Platform OXFAM Belgium URFIG Brazil Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) Canada Canadian Action Party Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Council of Canadians Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee Kingston & District Labour Council - Canada L.I.N.C. (Low Income Needs Coalition) Ogoni Solidarity Network - Canada Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation Polaris Institute China Asia Monitor Resource Center- Hong Kong Costa Rica COECOCeiba, Friends of the Earth Fiji Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) France Attac Ecoropa Federation syndicale unitaire (FSU) Institut de recherches historiques, economiques, sociales et culturelles (IRHESC) Mouvement National de Lutte pour l'Environnement (MNLE) SNESup (Syndicat national de l'enseignement supérieur) Germany World Economy, Ecology & Development India EQUATIONS- Equitable Tourism Options International Group for Grassroots Initiatives Jananeethi Loyola Hall Shramik Abhivrudhi Sangh St Aloysius College Tamilnadu Resource Team Tamilnadu Women's Collective Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr- India Udayani Social Action Forum Women's Welfare Center (WWC) Youth For Unity And Voluntary Action (YUVA) - India Indonesia KALIPTRA Foundation International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID) Walhi Lampung Yayasan Pelita Kasih Abadi (PEKA) Italy SinCOBAS Japan A SEED Japan APEC Monitoring NGO Group Friends of the Earth, Japan Jambo International Center Pacific Asia Resource Center (PARC) Shimin Gaikou Center - Citizens' Diplomatic Center for the Rights of Indigenous peoples (ECOSOC NGO) Malaysia Citizens' Health Initiative - Malaysia Nepal Integrated Organization System(IOS) Nepal Kingdom Foundation Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) Netherlands Both ENDS - Netherlands Corporate Europe Observatory International League of Peoples' Struggle Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) Transnational Institute New Zealand FAIR NZ - New Zealand Norway GATT-WTO Campaign, Norway Norwegian Association of Health and Social Care Personnel Norwegian Civil Service Union Norwegian Farmer and Smallholders Union Norwegian Nurses Association Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees Norwegian Union of Social Educators and Social Workers Norwegian Union of Teachers Teachers' Union, Norway Pakistan ROOTS for Equity - Pakistan Philippines Initiatives For International Dialogue Romania For Mother Earth-Romania Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space South Africa eThekwini ECOPEACE - South Africa Green Party of South Africa South Korea Green Korea United Taegu Round Spain Human Rights Observatory (Observatorio de Derechos Humanos, DESC) Switzerland Berne Declaration Forum for direct Democracy Europa-Magazin Thailand Focus on the Global South Rural Reconstruction Alumni and Friends Association (RRAFA) Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF) Turkey SOS ISTANBUL Cevre Gonulluleri Platformu (Environmental Volunteers' Platform) United Kingdom Anti-Globalisation Network The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom Centre for Alternative Technology Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick Communities Against Toxics Christian Council for Monetary Justice Christian Ecology Link Devizes & Marlborough Friends of the Earth The Ecologist Forum for Stable Currencies, House of Lords Friends of the Earth, Swindon George Washington University Action Coalition Green Socialist Network JPIC Desk Mid & North Herts Friends of the Earth Muir's Tours (Nepal Kingdom Foundation Trading Ltd) North Sheffield Action Group Stort Valley Friends of the Earth V & V Network (Values and Vision) Vision in Action magazine, Wales World Development Movement United States Alliance for Democracy Asia Pacific Center for Justice and Peace Campus Greens Carolina Animal Rights Effort Cascadia Forest Alliance Coastal Convergence Society Concerned Citizens Coalition of Roane, Calhoun and Gilmer Counties CorpWatch, USA Cumberland Countians for Peace & Justice The Eco-Store The Edmonds Institute 50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy Forest Guardians Global Exchange Global Resource Action Center for the Environment Global Response Humane Society of the United States Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy The Institute for Economic Democracy The Institute for Local Self-Reliance Mendocino Coast Alliance for Democracy Metro Justice of Rochester, Inc. Obed Watershed Association Olympia Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee Pacific Environment and Resources Center Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network (PCAN) Physicians for a National Health Program Public Citizen ReclaimDemocracy.org Shenandoah Ecosystems Defense Group United Church of Christ, Network for Environmental & Economic Responsibility United for a Fair Economy Virginia Forest Watch Virginians for Wilderness Who's Counting? Project Uruguay REDES- Friends of the Earth, Uruguay REPEM : Education Network Among Women , America Latina y el Caribe Zimbabwe SEATINI - Zimbabwe Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst@foodfirst.org. ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 From amittal at foodfirst.org Fri Mar 9 05:49:10 2001 From: amittal at foodfirst.org (Anuradha Mittal) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:49:10 -0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1738] New Food First Book: Views from the South Message-ID: <0.700000824.1851551370-951758591-984084550@topica.com> New from Food First Books and the International Forum on Globalization Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries For more information about Views from the South, or to purchase a copy of this book please go to http://www.foodfirst.org Global free trade in food and agriculture is the biggest refugee creation program in the world, far exceeding the impact of Kosovo. It is the equivalent to the ethnic cleansing of the poor, the peasantry, and small farmers of the Third World. -Vandana Shiva, author and activist, from her essay in Views from the South. In a time of growing critique of corporate driven globalization Food First and the International Forum on Globalization are releasing Views from the South. This rare collection of essays by renown Third World activists and scholars explain how the policies of the WTO and the Bretton Woods institutions are creating economic and environmental devastation in the Third World. Views from the South explores the effects of globalization and world trade policy on the Third World's economies and environment. Each essay points out that tenaciously held advantages by wealthy nations under the guise of the WTO erode any notion of a free marketplace. Democracy within this system was long ago scrapped in favor of consensus by the few major players, removing the majority from any effective decision-making. Edited by IFG staff member Sarah Anderson, Views from the South features writings by Martin Khor (Malaysia), Walden Bello (Thailand/Philippines), Dr. Vananda Shiva (India), Dot Keet (South Africa), Sara Larrain (Chile), and Oronto Douglas (Nigeria). Also included is a foreword by Jerry Mander, president of the Forum on International Globalization, and an afterword by Anuradha Mittal, co-director of Food First/Institute for Trade and Development Policy. About the contributors - Walden Bello's the most recent book is Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand (Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 1998). - Dr. Vananda Shiva's most recent book is Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (Boston: South End Press, 1997). - Jerry Mander's most recent book is The Case Against the Global Economy (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997) - Anuradha Mittal's most recent book is America Needs Human Rights (Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 1999). The International Forum on Globalization is a research and educational institution comprised of 60 researchers, activists, scholars, and economists from over 25 countries that seeks to stimulate new thinking and public activity in response to the rapidly emerging economic and political arrangements of the global economy. Food First, also known as the Institute for Food and Development Policy founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappè and Joseph Collins after the success of their book Diet for a Small Planet, is a policy think tank that carries out research and education-for-action. Food First works to identify the root causes of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world, and to educate the public as well as policy makers about these problems and alternative solutions to them. Views from the South The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries Edited by Sarah Anderson Foreword by Jerry Mander Afterword by Anuradha Mittal ISBN: 0-935028-82-X (paperback) 208 pages, paperback, $12.95 Food First Books are distributed by LPC Group, 1436 West Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60607, (800) 243-0138 Read the back cover, browse the table of contents, and purchase this book on-line at: http://www.foodfirst.org Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst@foodfirst.org. ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 From amittal at foodfirst.org Sat Mar 10 03:34:55 2001 From: amittal at foodfirst.org (Anuradha Mittal) Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:34:55 -0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1739] New Food First Book: Alternatives to the Peace Corps, 9th Edition Message-ID: <0.700000824.730707224-951758591-984162895@topica.com> NEW FROM FOOD FIRST BOOKS Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World & US Volunteer Opportunities, Ninth Edition For more information about Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World & US Volunteer Opportunities, Ninth Edition, or to purchase a copy of this book please go to http://www.foodfirst.org Edited by Joan Powell Throughout the United States and the world, volunteerism is on the rise. With the United Nations designating 2001 the Year of the Volunteer, Food First Books releases this March, a new edition of its popular guide to volunteering, Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and US Volunteer Opportunities, edited by Joan Powell. With over one hundred listings of organizations both in the United States and the Third World, Alternatives to the Peace Corps is thoroughly revised and updated, giving the prospective volunteer the most complete guide ever. Each listing is complete with address, telephone and fax numbers, and Web site and email addresses. Here's what returning volunteers say about this resource: "Alternatives to the Peace Corps gives great insight into international and domestic volunteer work, as well as helpful references to specific organizations," says Jessica Harper, a volunteer with Foundation for Sustainable Development. "I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to be an informed and aware volunteer. "Through Alternatives to the Peace Corps, I stumbled upon Bike-Aid-what I thought would be a great filler between college graduation and a year with Lutheran Volunteer Corps," says Katie Mast, Lutheran Volunteer Corps volunteer. "But Bike-Aid's summer long bicycle trip combined global education, service learning, and community living, and turned out to be the most amazing two months of my life." Along with resources for volunteering, Alternatives to the Peace Corps includes a critique of the Peace Corps and other United States government based aid organizations, common questions confronting volunteers, and a guide on evaluating volunteer opportunities Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy was founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins following the success of the book, Diet for A Small Planet. Recognized as "one of the country's most established food think tanks" by The New York Times, Food First is a leading progressive think tank and education-for-action center. Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and US Volunteer Opportunities, Ninth Edition Fully Revised and Updated Edited by Joan Powell ISBN: 0-935028-83-8 128 pages, paperback, $9.95 Food First Books are distributed by LPC Group, 1436 West Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60607, (800) 243-0138 Read the back cover, browse the table of contents, and purchase this book on-line at: http://www.foodfirst.org Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst@foodfirst.org. ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 From ircalb at swcp.com Sat Mar 10 06:19:37 2001 From: ircalb at swcp.com (Interhemispheric Resource Center) Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:19:37 -0700 Subject: [asia-apec 1740] Reagan's Man in Indonesia Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010309141456.00a94ab0@swcp.com> ---------------------------------------------------------- FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS http://fpif.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, Below is a link to a new commentary published by Foreign Policy In Focus on U.S./Asian relations under the direction of Paul Wolfowitz . Please submit comments or criticism to infocus@fpif.org FPIF publishes policy briefs, reports on U.S foreign policy, editorials, and global affairs commentaries. For information about submitting an original analysis please review: http://fpif.org/guidelines.html best regards, Tim McGivern Paul Wolfowitz, Reagan?s Man in Indonesia, Is Back at the Pentagon By Tim Shorrock http://fpif.org/commentary/0102wolfowitz.html In his new position of deputy Secretary of State, Paul Wolfowitz will have day-to-day control over the Pentagon and a perch to play out his hard-line views on theater missile defense (TMD), which he supports; North Korea, which he views as the rogue nation TMD was designed for; Iraq, where he wants the United States to arm the opposition; and China, which, according his comments to the New York Times last year, he sees as ?the major strategic competitor and potential threat to the United States.? Wolfowitz will also play a key role in forming and shaping new military alliances?a job he took to with relish in the waning years of the cold war. For a complete listing of materials on U.S.-Asian relations http://fpif.org/indices/regions/asia.html ---------------------------------------------------------- FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS http://fpif.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Interhemispheric Resource Center/Institute for Policy Studies Foreign Policy In Focus Program Box 4506 Albuquerque, NM 87196 infocus@fpif.org 505-246-1601 (fax) ircalb@swcp.com 733 15th St. ste. 1020 Washington, DC 20005 202-234-9382, ext 240 ipsps@igc.org From amittal at foodfirst.org Tue Mar 13 10:35:44 2001 From: amittal at foodfirst.org (Anuradha Mittal) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:35:44 -0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1741] Challenge Grant: Support Food First Message-ID: <0.700000824.785393123-951758591-984447344@topica.com> For 25 years Food First has been a leader in the fight to eliminate the injustices that perpetuate hunger amidst plenty. I know that you support our work, and I want to ask you to make a special donation that will be matched by the Alan Shawn Feinstein Million Dollar Challenge Grant during March and April, 2001. Food First is proud to have been selected to participate. You will also be joining millions of other Americans in sending the message to President Bush and the U.S. Congress that HUNGER IN AMERICA IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE. Right now more than 25% of U.S. children are growing up in poverty. It doesn't have to be this way. Instead of investing in our children, President Bush and the Republican-dominated Congress are determined to push through a tax cut that favors the rich. In 1990, CEOs of U.S. corporations earned an average of 80 times more than the average worker. That gap increased to 485 times the pay of the average worker by 1999. The federal tax cut will give a 43% tax cut to the richest one percent of Americans. The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities indicates that the Bush tax cut will provide no tax relief for 12 million lower and moderate-income families. Today 35 million Americans do not get enough to eat. Demand for food at food pantries and food banks across the country is the highest it has been since food banks were started in the early 1980s. Food pantries are now distributing food in the evening to serve working poor people who cannot come during weekday hours. Food First's May 2001 "California Economic Human Rights: The Time Has Come" bus tour will focus on the needs of those who have been marginalized by the globalization of jobs and the failure of minimum wage to keep up with the cost of living here in the U.S. I hope you can make a special donation to Food First during March or April for the 4th Annual Alan Shawn Feinstein $1 million dollar challenge grant. This is a smart way to make your donation go farther. You can also help put the pressure on Congress and President Bush by gathering signatures for the petition drive that has been started by Alan Shawn Feinstein. The attached petition calls upon Congress and President Bush to make a commitment to ending hunger in America. To get more copies of the petition, which already has more than 786,000 signatures, go to www.feinsteinfoundation.com. Remember, your special matching gift must be received here at Food First during March or April to count toward the Feinstein challenge grant. You can donate by credit card on our secure server web site - www.foodfirst.org or by mail (simply send us your card number and expiration date). Or you can simply write a check made out to Food First for this challenge grant. This is a chance to double the impact of your support. Working together we can make our voices heard for the right of all people to feed themselves. With respect for justice, Anuradha Mittal, Co-Director Here's my March/April 2001 special gift to match the 1 million dollar Alan Shawn Feinstein challenge to fight hunger in the U.S. [ ]$50 [ ]$25 [ ]$75 [ ]$100 Other_______ [ ]Visa [ ]MC [ ]AmExpress Card# Expires_____________ Name________________________________ Address________________________________________ City/State/Zip_________________________________________ Please make checks payable to FOOD FIRST. Thank You! http://www.foodfirst.org e-mail: foodfirst@foodfirst.org -- Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst@foodfirst.org. ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 From kevin.li at graduate.hku.hk Tue Mar 13 12:28:51 2001 From: kevin.li at graduate.hku.hk (Kevin Li) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:28:51 +0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1742] INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE BAKUN HYDROELECTRIC DAM (Fwd) Message-ID: <007d01c0ab6d$bd26de80$76242dca@enduser> ----- Original Message ----- From: Sam Date: 2001?~3??12?? ?U?? 08:58 Subject: [RWESA] INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE BAKUN HYDROELECTRIC DAM Dear Friends, While the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of dams are being questioned around the world, it is with dismay that the government of Malaysia has, for the third time, revived the mammoth Bakun Hydroelectric Dam project. Bakun Dam will inundate an area as large as Singapore, with it, 12 totally protected species and 93 protected species of wildlife; 1,230 species of flora and fauna used for medicine, food, fibre and other social uses, with an estimated value of RM 22 billion in annual forest product revenue. The project will create adverse impacts on water levels and salt water intrusion in the river downstream, potentially affecting tens of thousands of people in Sarawak. It will also cause degradation of fish habitat and loss of fisheries resources downstream and in the inundated area. The 10,000 indigenous people forcibly displaced by the project have not received adequate compensation. Those who had relocated to the Kampung Asap resettlement site are now suffering from abject poverty, malnutrition, unemployment, appalling housing scheme and dire social economic condition. Some have moved back into the dam site and more are inclined to do the same. Details and petition form are available at http://www.suaram.org/bakun. Thank you very much. Regards, Sam Hui SUARAM & SOS Selangor From amittal at foodfirst.org Thu Mar 15 06:42:38 2001 From: amittal at foodfirst.org (Anuradha Mittal) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:42:38 -0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1743] Job Announcement/Job Description - Internet Program Coordinator/Website Message-ID: <0.700000824.2071517428-951758591-984606158@topica.com> Job Announcement/Job Description Internet Program Coordinator/Website Manager Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy is a not-for-profit education-for-action center and progressive think tank with a mission to end the injustices that cause hunger by moving people to take effective action. Position Summary Food First's website is a cutting edge website that brings together news and analysis, research tools and activist resources on food, hunger, agriculture, human rights and other social and economic justice issues. Our audience ranges from activists, academics, and journalists to the general public. The Internet Program Coordinator/Website Manager is responsible for the internet program, the web site, and for overseeing the Institute's Technology Policy. Specific responsibilities include: day-to-day Web development (design, expansion, maintenance, promotion and analysis); implement new site features; list administration; other possible use of the Internet to further the Institute's mission; Internet connectivity; Technology Policy (maintaining & upgrading in-house computer services including ethernet and AppleTalk networks, hardware, OS and software upgrades and Tech support to staff). Qualifications Required: o Minimum 2 years experience in site maintenance and project management o Hand-authoring skills in HTML and optimization of graphics for the web a must o Solid proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, and other graphics software o Excellent computer skills (Macintosh and DOS/Windows) and trouble-shooting skills o Experience with email list administration and other Internet technologies o Knowledge of Internet connectivity issues o Ability to be self-directed and to work cooperatively in a collective environment o Project management skills o Ability to train and communicate with non-technical staff including the ability to present complex concepts in easily understood graphical presentations o Commitment to social justice and the mission of the Institute o Appreciation of diverse cultures and a diverse work environment. o Ability to provide leadership and vision to our communications strategy using the internet o Strong communication and organizational skills and the ability to work in a team Desired: o Experience in network administration o Technical needs assessment and planning skills o Online fundraising and grant writing experience o Advanced Web development skills (information, graphic and visual design; HTML; JavaScript, ASP, CGI, and other programming; testing; promotion and analysis; knowledge of tools; knowledge of standards and compatibility issues) o Knowledge of computer security issues and backup systems o Knowledge of E-commerce techniques and issues Specific Responsibilities The Internet Program Coordinator/Web Weaver works with other staff to insure a first rate electronic outreach/communications strategy and computer services. S/he is expected to develop and work within a budget and workplan for areas under her/his responsibility. Website Manager responsibilities include: o Interface with other staff who provide most content o Brainstorm web (and other e-communications) strategies/features/audiences with other staff o Design pages in consultation with other staff o HTML content o Development of images, including scanning and other graphics work o E-commerce features including secure server o Create searchable archives o Add and maintain links in consultation with other staff o Manage list-serves, blast fax and email features, etc. o Participate in fundraising (grant writing, etc.) activities with other staff to support electronic outreach/services. o Provide staff with computer-related trouble-shooting on an as-needed and time-available basis. o Provide leadership of technology policy o Provide tech support to staff Network Administrator responsibilities include: o Maintain & upgrade our internal ether and Appletalk networks. o Do feasibility study on acquiring a server and purchase/install/maintain one if so desired o Develop in-house file sharing/communication strategy in consultation with other staff o Manage OS and software upgrades/compatibility on Institute's computers. o Purchase computer equipment as needed, based on comparison shopping. o Maintain internet services. o Assist other staff with computer-related problems/needs. o Take charge of relations with outside computer-related vendors. Employment Status, Salary and Benefits Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply. This is a Level III job classification, depending on experience, with an initial annual salary of $28,000 - 34,000, plus a benefits package including health, dental and vision coverage and retirement benefits. How to Apply Send your resume, cover letter, three references, and an URL where we can see your work, to: Internet Coordinator Search Committee Food First 398 60th Street Oakland, CA 94618 510-654-4400 fax 510-654-4551 foodfirst@foodfirst.org www.foodfirst.org Position open until filled. Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst@foodfirst.org. ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 From notoapec at clear.net.nz Wed Mar 21 16:09:04 2001 From: notoapec at clear.net.nz (APEC Monitoring Group) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:09:04 +1200 Subject: [asia-apec 1744] Urgent - Unjust Repression in Japan Message-ID: <00a301c0b1db$c03c37e0$c73761cb@notoapec> Statement Against Unjust Repression of a Citizen's Movement We strongly protest the unjust repression that has taken place towards a citizen's organization. On March 15, 2001, the Asia Pacific Resource Center (PARC) was investigated by nine investigators from the First Public Security Section, Public Security Dept, Police Agency, for more than 3 hours from 10 AM to 1:30 PM. The investigators confiscated: a copy of address stickers of the mailing list of PARC's monthly journal 'ALTA (Alternatives)'; a journal 'The Passport' published by the Association Considering the Judgement of Returnees from Overseas; a journal 'The 21 Century of Hope' published by The Hope 21; and one new-year's card from January 1999 (from an individual currently in Miyagi prison). PARC has been conducting citizen activities for 30 years. As a result, it receives many newsletters and journals from other Japanese citizen movements. PARC stores them as a part of its resources. The confiscated documents are just a portion of thousands of accumulated resources, and they are sold publicly. The new-year's card is also just one of hundreds of new-year's cards received by PARC, and the sender. This search of the office was carried under the pretext of suspicion in connection with the arrest of Mr. N in that morning, who was suspected of 'hiding a fugitive' referring to the suspect, Ms. SHIGENOBU Fusako of the Japanese Red Army, who was arrested last November. This suspicion seems to be groundless, based on the arbitrary guesses by the Public Security investigators. Mr. N is the domestic partner of Ms. INOUE Reiko, a former co-president of PARC. As its Articles of Association and its activity guide clearly state, PARC is an organization engaged in the management of PARC Freedom School, research and campaigns on environment issues in Asia, advocacy towards the government on ODA reform, the publication of the journal 'ALTA (Alternatives)', etc. with the purpose of informing people about the realities of the environment, human rights and Asian countries. PARC's activities are not connected in any way with the Japanese Red Army. Using the pretext of PARC's relation with the partner of Mr. N, the whole office of the organization was searched and the subscription list of the journal was confiscated. This is an unlimited expansion of repression. In addition, TV crews were present, lined up in front of the office building, when the police entered to search the office. This means that the police informed the media beforehand. TV stations broadcast the entrance of the office building and the name of PARC, giving the impression that PARC is connected to the Japanese Red Army. This is a significant and serious obstruction of a citizen's movement's activities, including the publication of journals, etc. since PARC relies financially on journal subscriptions, etc. As a result of this office search, PARC has already experienced concrete damages including a request by the building owner, via the estate agency, for it to vacate the building. While the police information is broadcast as if it were fact, the media seldom broadcasts citizen's complaints or objections. We deeply resent that the damage has been worsened by the media on top of the office search. For an organization like PARC, whose activities rely on the participation and cooperation of citizens, the office search and the confiscation of membership lists have tremendous damage. We are strongly concerned about the expansion of repression if we allow such unfair repression this time. In order to protect citizen's rights and citizen's movement's freedom, and to develop civil movements, we strongly claim that it unacceptable for the police to search the office of an organization which is not directly connected to a suspected incident, and to confiscate name lists which are not directly related to the suspected incident. In addition, civil rights include the freedom of organizations to publish journals to report about their activities and thoughts, whatever these thoughts and principles may be. Also, keeping publications is a part of the freedom of an organization to keep the as many records of citizen's movements as possible. In order to prevent the repetition of such repression, we, as a citizen's organization, express here our anger and protest. Pacific Asia Resource Center (PARC) co-Representatives Mr. MURAI Yoshinori Mr. NAKAMURA Hisashi Secretary-General Ms. MAEDA Miho 3F, Hinoki Bldg., 2-1 Kanda Ogawa-machi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, Japan 101- 0052 tel:81-3-3291-5901 fax:81-3-3292-2437 parc@jca.apc.org From fod346 at hotmail.com Thu Mar 22 06:14:41 2001 From: fod346 at hotmail.com (Maq Ras) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 02:14:41 +0500 Subject: [asia-apec 1745] Fw: Palijo & hundreds of men & women arrested in Sindh-Pakistan Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: Fayaz Aziz To: ; Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:43 PM More than 600 environmentalists, civil society activists and political workers, men and women of Awami Tahreek (Peoples Movement) including AT President, PONM’s Central Leader and Supreme Court’s Lawyer Rasool Bux Palijo were rounded up by more than 15 hundred policemen and rangers of four districts, between Kheber and Matyari at the main National Highway of Sindh Pakistan today in a bid to foil Awami Tahreek’s Bhit Shah-Karachi Long March for the protection of Indus Ecology and against the acute water shortage, district govt plan and unemployment. All the prisoners have been kept in Hatri, Sekhat and Cant Police Lockups and no one has been allowed to meet the 71-year-old renowned leader and women prisoners who have infants and suckling babies with them. Those who have been arrested include Sindhiani Tahreek (SINDHI WOMEN’s MOVEMENT) leaders: Suraj Halepoto, Pirah Khaskheli, Shahida, Sajida Bhano, Hamida Nizamani, Fatima Bagrani, Salma Bagrani, Afsana Nizamani, Bhori Menghwar, Maryam Rind, Bakhtawar Halepoto, Zahida Shaikh and others and Awami Tahreek’s leaders Sartaj Chandio, Wishnoo Mal, Hakim Zangejo, Piral Bhano, Anwar Rind, Choith Ram, Ali Mir Shah, Mustafa Chandio, Bilawal Lashari, Mashooque Chandio, Munawar Jatoi, Didar Kandhro, Ashraf Palijo, Rahman Dahri, Kishor Kumar Kolhi, Poorho Mal, Kesroo Mal, Jamal Leghari, Faizal Jakhrani, Sadiq Bagrani and others. For the last several weeks there is no water for irrigation in Sindh and agriculture, aquatic life, mangrove forests, Indus Dolphins, fishermen, lower Indus ecology and livelihood of millions of people have been destroyed due to the water-stealing by the ruling Punjab Province of Pakistan. This is an unprecedented situation in the history of the Indus river where for centuries the river was used as a natural source for social and agriculture needs. The law enforcing authorities in the command of SSPs, Deputy Commissioner Hyderabad and several Majors of Rangers blocked the roads and asked the protesters to get into the trucks, but the emotional crowd of thousands refused and continued chanting slogans against the government for destroying the agriculture and economy of Sindh, on which police first tried to baton-charge the activists but thousands of AT supporters and villagers of adjacent villages gathered at Anwar Kot where Awami Tahreek chief himself raised slogans, “Darya Je Khatir Jhero Aaa” “Jijal Jey Khatir Jhero Aa” (We will fight for our river, we will fight for our motherland) and advanced towards Matyari and Hyderabad. Then more than 1500 Policemen and rangers ferociously surrounded them and forcibly put them in dozens of Police vehicles and busses. Once again Mr. Rasul Bux Palijo tried to stand and address the crowd but policemen compelled him to sit in the van. At that time when the photographer of Daily Tameer Sindh tried to take photos of police brutality with the women of Sindhiani Tahreek and small children the DSP Police Head Quarter Qayoom viciously attacked the photographer and grabbed his camera. Due to extraordinary deployment of the rangers and police force, Karachi Peshawar National Highway was giving a look of an enemy area put under the curfew, which badly affected the routine traffic. After the arrest of hundreds of activists the angry crowd retaliated with stones and blocked the road. Police again rounded up more than 30 workers from the scene and took them to different police stations. The hide and seek between police and Awami Tahreek supporters continued for the rest of the day. , When AT leaders tried to hold a press conference in Qasimabad the Palijo House in Prince Town was encircled by the Police and till now several Mobile Trucks of Police are deployed in Prince Town. Talking to a group of journalists Awami Tahreek leaders Mohammad Khan Bhurgri, Dr. Gulzar Jumani, Siraj Siyal, Syed Alam Shah, Gul Hasan Kirano, Noor Nabi Rahoojo, Dr. Aziz Talpur, Rafi Leghari, Hasan Pasayo termed the police act as barbarism and violation of human rights, as people of Sindh province had every right to protest against the hand made water shortage. They condemned the police and rangers attitude towards Mr. Palijo, ladies and infants, they said when the party workers tried to provide medicines to 71 years old Heart Patient Mr. Palijo in overcrowded Police Lockup, the SSP fiercely refused to allow them. The Awami Tahreek leaders have called for hunger strikes in all the districts of Sindh from tomorrow and onwards and said that such tyrannies of Punjab and establishment could not compel the people of Sindh to give up their protest campaign because water is a matter of life and death for them. ------------------------------- Friends, we request you to join us in urging Pakistani Government, to release the renowned intellectual and civil society activist Mr. Rasul Bux Palijo and hundreds of women workers and peasants and to allow the discharge of water in Indus. The simple, action you can take in solidarity with the people of Indus valley: Please email your protest to the following: CE@pak.gov.pk, omar@sungi.sdnpk.undp.org, irn-wcd@netvista.net, wsc-network@yahoogroups.com, sindhorg@yahoogroups.com, kawish12@yahoo.com, ibrat@hyd.compol.com, helpasia@yahoogroups.com, nab@apollo.net.pk, worldsindhi@yahoogroups.com, nrb@apollo.net.pk, amnestyis@amnesty.org, editor@jang.com.pk , sindhu@hyd.compol.com, koshish@yahoo.com, editor@nawaiwaqt.com.pk, President@WhiteHouse.GOV, cnn@cnn.com, newsroom@dawn.com, editor@dawn.com, info@frontierpost.com.pk, nation@brain.net.pk _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. From amittal at foodfirst.org Fri Mar 23 06:34:39 2001 From: amittal at foodfirst.org (Anuradha Mittal) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:34:39 -0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1746] ACTION ALERT: Black Farmers in the U.S. call on you for support! Message-ID: <0.700000824.553120053-951758591-985296879@topica.com> ACTION ALERT: Black Farmers in the U.S. call on you for support! Make your voice heard now to end the U.S. government's stalling of promised compensation for decades of racial discrimination. Join with Food First to demand that Black Farmers be paid immediately. 2 Minute Action to Support the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA) 1) Read the brief "Background" section below 2) Copy and Paste the "Petition Text" into a new email 3) Add your name and contact information 4) Send to TILLERY@aol.com - the BFAA will print and submit these 5) Forward this email to friends and associates 6) Visit the websites linked at the end of this email for further BFAA information Background: African-American farmers have been systematically discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) since the agency’s formation. In the landmark case PIGFORD v. GLICKMAN, the U.S. Federal District Court found that the USDA has in fact "practiced, implemented and otherwise instituted policies and procedures which disparately impacted African American farmers based solely on their race between January 1, 1981 and December 31, 1996". A Consent Decree was entered on April 14, 1999 with provisions for compensating those Black Farmers impacted by discriminatory USDA policies. Over twenty-five thousand farmers applied to be admitted to this class action and more than twenty one thousand were granted this request. However, the claims of approximately 40% of these 21,000 claimants have been rejected. Of the other 60% of the farmers admitted to the class, fewer than 10% of those approved for monetary relief have been granted debt forgiveness. This is absolutely unacceptable and defeats the intent of the court's ruling to find a just solution. Petition Text (cut, paste, add your info, & send to "Tillery@aol.com": "Petition for Expedited Settlement to President George W. Bush I hereby petition the Chief Executive of the United States of America, George W. Bush, to require that just compensation be paid immediately to all African-American farmers party to the Pigford vs. Glickman Consent Decree and that settlement be made expeditiously to those claimants wrongfully denied settlement pursuant to the terms of the Consent Decree. Sincerely, _____________________ (name) _____________________ (street address) _____________________ (city, state, zip) _____________________ (phone or email)" For more information: The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists' Association http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/bfaa.htm and Food First's Backgrounder "The Last Plantation" http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/2000/w00v6n1.html Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst@foodfirst.org. ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 From amittal at foodfirst.org Fri Mar 23 09:01:19 2001 From: amittal at foodfirst.org (Anuradha Mittal) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:01:19 -0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1747] Write your congressional repesentatives about sustainable agriculture re Message-ID: <0.700000824.406264558-212058698-985305679@topica.com> Action needed by the Senate Appropriations sucbommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, & Related Agencies. Please write to your senator to urge her/him to support funding for two key programs for fiscal year 2002. Members of the appropriations subcommittee include: Thad Cochran R (MS) chair, Arlen Specter R (PA), Mitch McConnell, Jr. R (KY), Conrad Burns R (MT), Larry E. Criag R (ID), Ted Stevens R (AK), Herbert Kohl D (WI), Tom Harkin D (IA), Byron L. Dorgan D (ND), Dianne Feinstein D (CA), Richard J. Durbin D (IL), Tim Johnson D (SD), Robert C. Byrd D (WV). Ask your senator to advocate for $20 million for the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program ($15 million for research and $5 million for extension and outreach). In its 13-year history SARE has funded 57 projects addressing California farmers' questions. SARE allows farmers to participate in broader institutional research, and the program's close links between research and outreach mean that research is focused on farmers' needs. The second program we want the senators to fight for is the Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) which provides vouchers for low-income citizens to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers' markets. The FMNP is extremely cost effective. In Fiscal Year 1999, more than 1.5 million WIC participants and 45,000 non-WIC participants redeemed approximately $14 million in coupons through over 11,439 farmers selling at more than 1,800 farmers' markets.The $20 million in current funding serves just 41 states. Ask your senator to support $25 in funding to allow the program to serve more states, and more users in each state. The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition pilot program is now distributing $15 million in coupons to persons 60 years or over. Ask your senator to fight for $25 million for this program for Fiscal Year 2002.. Send your letter addressed to your senator to US Senate, Washington DC 20510. To be effective, your letter must be received by Thursday, April 5. or e-mail senator@lastname.senate.gov. For example senator@feinstein.senate.gov For more information visit the senate web site at www.senate.gov Please forward this e-mail to friends. Working together we can build a world where everyone has the economic human right to food. Thanks. Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst@foodfirst.org. ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 From amittal at foodfirst.org Tue Mar 27 02:53:16 2001 From: amittal at foodfirst.org (Anuradha Mittal) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:53:16 -0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1748] An evening with Brasil's landless workers movement - April 11th Message-ID: <0.700000824.72967888-951758591-985629196@topica.com> Wednesday April 11, 7:30PM An evening with Brasil's landless workers movement, the largest social movement in the americas. Featuring two visiting MST leaders Maria Gorete de Sousa and Antonio Pasquetti. Maria gorete de sousa is an educator/activist who coordinates the direction of the MST in the state of Maranhão. Oversees political training of the national collective. Works with the mst since 1986, organizing, training and delivering empowerment courses, as well as literacy campaigns for youth and adults. Luis Antonio Pasquetty is an economist/activist. He currently heads the landless peasant movement's national office of development. This informative evening will include concerns about World Bank land reform program, FTAA, human rights, education in the MST encampments, and genetically modified crops, as well as plans to protect seed banks adn the continuation of agrarian reform. Find out more about mst cooperatives, educational model, and victories as the movement moves towards creating a self-sustaining alternative model of development grounded in true democratic principals. Enjoy as well the bay area premier of strong roots, an exceptional documentary about the MST's history as told by its grassroots activists. La Peña 3105 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94705 (510) 849-9397 $5-10 donation requested Sponsored by Food First, Friends of the MST & Global Exchange Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst@foodfirst.org. ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 From ircalb at swcp.com Wed Mar 28 02:23:52 2001 From: ircalb at swcp.com (Interhemispheric Resource Center) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:23:52 -0700 Subject: [asia-apec 1749] U.S./China Relations Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010327100638.00a5fc50@swcp.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/asia-apec/attachments/20010327/b1e9e128/attachment.html From kevin.li at graduate.hku.hk Fri Mar 30 15:22:47 2001 From: kevin.li at graduate.hku.hk (Kevin Yuk-shing Li) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:22:47 +0800 Subject: [asia-apec 1750] CorpWatch Action Alert: Don't Let Bush Torpedo The Climate Treaty! Message-ID: <006501c0b8e1$d87e92a0$16242dca@enduser> (Sorry for cross-posting!) CORPWATCH CYBER ACTION ALERT March 29, 2001 TAKE ACTION! Flood White House with faxes! Tell President Bush not to torpedo the Kyoto Treaty on Global warming! Last year the US blocked progress at negotiations in The Netherlands, now Texas oil-man, President George W. Bush wants to destroy the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Friends of the Earth and CorpWatch ask people around the world to flood the White House with protest faxes. Let's show President Bush what climate change means and how much people are concerned about it. Send your FREE FAX today! http://www.corpwatch.org/action/2001/012.html Or, first read some background on the issue: * The Global Warming President http://www.corpwatch.org/climate/updates/2001/jkarliner1.html * EU: Disgust over Bush's Kyoto Decision http://www.corpwatch.org/news/2001/0077.html * Climate Justice Facts http://www.corpwatch.org/climate/background/2001/cjfactsheet.html ###