[asia-apec 1063] Alternatives To The APEC Agenda - please repost

[Gatt Watchdog]

APEC 99:
It's Not Worth It!


>From 26 April to 7 May 1999 Ministers and Senior Officials from 21 "economies"
of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum meet in Christchurch
(Aotearoa/New Zealand) to plan the agenda for the APEC Ministerial and Leaders
Meetings that will be held in Auckland in mid-September 1999.  The
"Alternatives to the APEC Agenda: Development, Foreign Investment and
Sovereignty" Forum will provide an opportunity to learn more about APEC and to
express our opposition to the extreme neoliberal and free market policies that
are the cornerstones of the APEC agenda.

One way of understanding APEC is to see it as "Rogernomics" on an Asia-Pacific
scale.  While the promoters of APEC try to project it as a forum for economic
cooperation and development, APEC exists to give more and more freedom to the
large corporations to exploit the region.  APEC is anti-women, anti-worker,
anti-Maori, and fundamentally, anti-people. 

ALTERNATIVES TO THE APEC AGENDA: Development, Foreign Investment & Sovereignty

Public Meeting (All welcome to attend)

Friday 23 April

7.30pm
Knox Hall, Cnr Victoria St and Bealey Ave, Christchurch

With
Annette Sykes (Ngati Pikiao, Lawyer & Treaty Activist)
Dr David Small (Corso National Officer)
Murray Horton (Organiser, Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA))

Forum (see registration details below)
Alternatives to the APEC Agenda: Development, Foreign Investment and
Sovereignty

Saturday 24 April
9am - 6pm
Knox Hall, Cnr Victoria St & Bealey Ave, Christchurch

Programme
9.00am  Welcome and outline
9.20am An overview of APEC - Aziz Choudry (GATT Watchdog)
10.00am Development & the Market Model - Radha D'Souza (labour rights/human
rights lawyer/activist, Asia Pacific Workers Solidarity Links, India);
Dr David Small (Corso National Officer)
10.30am Discussion/workshops 

12pm Lunch
1.30pm Foreign Investment - Dr Bill Rosenberg & Murray Horton (Campaign
Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa)
2pm Discussion/workshops
3.30 Sovereignty under threat?
Annette Sykes (Ngati Pikiao, Treaty Activist); 
Leonie Pihama (Te Atiawa, Ngati Mahanga)
4 pm Discussion/workshops
5.30pm Sum up - Dr David Small

To register for the forum on 24 April, please fill out details below and
return with payment to Aotearoa/New Zealand APEC Monitoring Group, PO Box
1905, Christchurch 8015:

Name .................................................................................................
Address.............................................................................................
Phone....................................................................................................
Fax...........................................................................................................
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Registration is $20 (waged)/$10 (unwaged)/$50 (supporting)

Please make cheques payable to: Aotearoa/New Zealand APEC Monitoring Group

This forum, organised by the Aotearoa/New Zealand APEC Monitoring Group, GATT
Watchdog, Christchurch Corso, and CAFCA, is one of a series being organised
around the country this year leading to a two-day conference to be held in
Auckland on September 11-12 1999 (at the time of the APEC Leaders Summit)

For further information please contact us at
gattwd at corso.ch.planet.gen.nz
Fax (64) 3 3668035
or refer to our website
www.apec.gen.nz