[asia-apec 1346] REMINDER: Say NO to WTO! in Seattle

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From:  Sentenaryo ng Bayan, Seattle 
       Network Opposed to WTO, Seattle
	BAYAN (New Patriotic Alliance) 

ALL ROADS LEAD TO SEATTLE!  
ALL PROTEST ARROWS ARE POINTED AT WTO!

Peoples' Assembly and March-Rally Say NO to WTO!
November 28 - 30, 1999
Filipino Community Center 
Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Seattle, Washington
 

OBJECTIVES:

1. To make people aware of the disastrous effects of
the WTO, AOA and all schemes of imperialist
globalization on the peoples of the world. 

2. To expand linkages, forge stronger unities and
establish cooperation in international campaigns with
other anti-AOA/WTO and anti-imperialist groups 
and individuals worldwide.

3. To further advance our work of building
anti-imperialist resistance in North America. 


People's Assembly Programme 

NOVEMBER 28

09:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon   Arrival and Check-in of delegates
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.     Lunch

01:00 p.m.          Opening of the Peoples' Assembly
                    Cultural Number-Unity Drumming  
                    Welcome Address from Sentenaryo ng Bayan
                    Introduction of Delegations
                    Logistical Announcements

01:45 p.m.          Short Statement of Solidarity from: 
                    · BAYAN (New Patriotic Alliance) and 
			 People's Campaign Against 
			 Imperialist Globalization (PCAIG)  
                    · NO to APEC Coalition, Vancouver
                    · Washington Fair Trade, Network Opposed To WTO! 
                              
02:00		      Cultural Number

02:15               Keynote Address:  
                    The Need to Advance People's Resistance 
		      Against Imperialist Globalization! 
                    by Prof. Jose Maria Sison
                    International Network for Philippine Studies
                    Consultant, National Democratic Front 
		      of the Philippines (NDFP)
                    To be read by Atty. Arnedo Valera
                    President, DIWA, Washington D.C.
             
02:45               Coffee/Tea Break

03:00               People Say No to WTO!
                    Panel of Speakers (15 minute presentation each)    

                    There's No Such Thing as Free Trade 
		      Nor Fair Trade Under Imperialist Globalization 
                    by Dr. Pao Yu Ching, Taiwan and U.S.A.
     
                    Keep MAI Out of WTO!
                    by Maude Barlow, Canada
                    Council of Canadians and
                    International Forum on Globalization  (IFG)

                    American Trade Unionists Spurn WTO
                    by Philip Koritz, Seattle
                    Philippine Workers Support Committee
                    
                    WTO: Worsening  Environmental 
                    Racism and Injustice
                    by Richard Moore, USA (Invited)
                    Southwest Network for Environmental 
		      and Economic Justice (SNEEJ) 

04:00               Open Forum/Sharing

04:30               Coffee/Tea Break    

05:00               Anti-Imperialist Struggle and Resistance 
		      Among the Filipino Community in the US
                    · Aquilina Soriano, US
                      League of Filipino Students
			  Los Angeles Chapter 
       
05:30-07:30         No to WTO Youth and Student Caucus

		      Simultaneous with
 
05:30               With Globalization Comes US Agression
                    · The Case of Yugoslavia
                      by the International Action Center, US
                    · The Case of Cuba
                      by Fernando Remirez de Estenoz or 
                      Sergio Martinez

06:00               Open Forum

06:30               Dinner/Cultural Presentations

07:30               Film Showing and Q&A session: 
                    "Pressure Point" - a film by Malcom Guy and 
                    Anna Paskal on the Montreal Blockade to MAI

08:30-8:40          Film Showing:
                    "Junk APEC" - a film about the 1996 people's 
			conference and caravan against APEC that 
			signalled the global peoples' campaign 
			against imperialist globalization

9:00                End of Day 1 Sessions    


NOVEMBER 29    

09:00 a.m.          Mural Opening with community 
                    singing, cultural number
                    To be led by Fr. Arturo Balagat
                    St. George's Parish, California   

09:15               Recap of previous day's work 
                    and a report back from the 
                    Youth & Students' (YS) Caucus
                    · Leslie Byster, South Bay NO To WTO!
                    · Designated representative from YS Caucus

09:30               Keynote Speaker for Day 2:
                    
		      Peasant Resistance to AOA and WTO
                    · Rafael Mariano, Chairperson
			  BAYAN and KMP (Phil Peasant Movement)

9:50               Take Agriculture Out of the WTO!
                   Panel of Speakers (15-minute presentation each):

                    · Rafael Alegria, Honduras
                      International Operational Secretariat
		        La Via Campesina
                   
                    · Mika Iba, Japan
                      Network for Safe and Secure Food and 
			 Environment (NESSFE)

10:35               Open Forum and Sharing    

11:00               Coffee/Tea Break    

11:15               Anti-Imperialist Struggle and Resistance 
		      Among the Filipino Community in Canada
                    · Cecilia Diocson
                      Philippine Women's Center, Vancouver
    
11:45               Lunch Break    

01:15 p.m.          Cultural Presentation - 
			Kinding Sindaw from NewYork

01:30               Women Say NO to WTO! 
                    Sponsored by GABRIELA, AMIHAN and 
			APWLD (Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law
			and Devt)
                    Panel of Speakers (15 minute presentation each) 

                    · Liza Largoza-Maza, Philippines
                      GABRIELA    

                    · Sarojeni Rengam, Malaysia
                      Pesticide Action Network - AsPac (PAN-AP)  
  
                    · Rawadee Prasertcharoensuk and 
			 Cholada Montreevat, Thailand
                      APWLD Task Force on Women & Environment
			  and Task Force on Rural & Indigenous Women
    
02:15               Open Forum and Sharing

02:45               Coffee/Tea Break

03:00               Cultural Presentation

03:15               Presentation of Statement Against the WTO 
		      and Imperialist Globalization" 
		      to be presided by Dr. Carol Pagaduan-Araullo
                    Vice-Chairperson, BAYAN 
		     
05:30               Closing Ceremony:

                    Closing Remarks 
                    by Christene Reyes, Sentenaryo ng Bayan

                    Cultural Number

06:00               Dinner

06:30               Film Premiere Showing and Q & A 
                    "Golf War" - a film by Jennifer Schradie
			and Matt de Vries about the peasant struggle     
                    to protect Hacienda Looc from conversion to
			tourism resort

07:30               SOLIDARITY NIGHT
                    Songs, dances, poetry reading 
			and much more!

NOVEMBER 30

08:00-10:00a.m.     Bilateral consultation with Japanese 
			and Korean farmer organizations

10:00 a.m.          No To WTO! Caravan starting at the 
                    Filipino Community Center through
                    South Seattle and towards downtown
 
11:00 a.m.          Assembly in the International District 
			on 4th and Jackson to begin March 
			to downtown Seattle to join the large rally 
			marching towards the Conference Center
 
01:00-03:00 p.m.    Rally Against WTO on 4th and Pine
        
Evening             Food-Cultural Evening  Celebrating Rice  
                    Unitarian Universalist Church
		      Findlay St. South

DECEMBER 1

06:30pm             Filipino Community Dinner Affair
                    Beacon Hill Methodist Church
                        
			Speakers from the Philippines:
                     · Rosario Bella Guzman, IBON
                     · Dr. Joseph Carabeo
			  HEAD (Health Alliance for Democracy) 
 		 	· Dr. Carol Araullo
			  BAYAN and PCAIG
			. Rafael Mariano
                       BAYAN and KMP
                          				                        


Please write to the Peoples' Assembly Committee for
the registration form and if you require a personal
invitation for visa purposes:
 
Secretariat, Peoples' Assembly Committee (PAC)
Attn: ACE SATURAY, Sentenaryo ng Bayan
(206)721-6355  E-mail: passembly at yahoo.com

NOTE:  We regret that because of financial constraints, 
the organizers of the Peoples' Assembly will not be able 
to subsidize expenses of delegates.