STOP MAI

MEDIA RELEASE -for immediate release, 30 October, 2000 Authorised by the STOP-MAI Campaign Coalition (WA) Website http://members.iinet.net.au/~jenks/fair.html Affiliated with the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTInet) and with the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO)

We must consider "disabling the transnational corporations ... that constitute the core of the global economic system." -Prof. Walden Bello

Perth's N25 Convention on Saturday, 25 November (and a similar one in Melbourne on 11 November) will be attended by citizens who, for the most part, want to halt and undo the rampage of corporate globalism and the policies of so-called "economic rationalism".

The Convention will be an intensive and serious discussion which is not solely the preserve of left-wing activists such as those who took part in the recent spectacular mass demonstrations in Seattle, Davos, Washington, Melbourne and Prague.

As against the media-portrayed violence initiated by police at those demonstrations, the N25 Convention will highlight a more subtle and pervasive violence being wrought daily by banks and other multinational corporations against the welfare of Australians, with the aid of national and international trade bureaucracies.

We are grateful to Professor Walden Bello, Fellow of the Transnational Institute and Professor of Public Administration and Sociology at the University of the Philippines, for a definitive statement of the problem presented at public lectures in Melbourne in September, an internet copy of which is available at http://members.iinet.net.au/~jenks/Bello_S11.html

An email or faxed copy of Professor Bello's important analytical address can be sent on request to the Perth N25 Convention's media liaison officer, Brian Jenkins, phone 08 9528 1864, or by email to jenks@iinet.net.au ends

 

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PHONE CONTACTS: Brian Jenkins +61 8 9528 1864; Dion Giles 0411 745 538