STOP MAI |
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by the STOP-MAI Campaign Coalition (WA) Affiliated
with the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network
(AFTInet) |
| STOP MAI |
Authorised
by the STOP-MAI Campaign Coalition (WA) Affiliated
with the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network
(AFTInet) |
Concern about bad effects of globalisation gains momentum in Perth
The dramatic legal stand-off concerning refugees on the m.v. Tampa has highlighted double standards which are bringing 'globalisation' into increasing disrepute with Australian workers, churches and academics.
It is clear that our federal Government sees benefits in opening our borders wide to overseas investment and exploitation of our country's resources. Equally clear is the widening gap between rich and poor and reduction of permanent employment.
On the other hand, international conventions to protect the rights of refugees, environmental standards, employment equity and justice are being ignored.
The despatch of asylum seekers to Nauru also serves to highlight how that island has been stripped of its valuable guano resource in less than a century and now faces disappearance into the ocean as a consequence of irresponsible global warming.
It is for such reasons such that millions of citizens world-wide are rebelling against corporate control of the globalisation agenda, and mobilising in demonstrations against the World Trade Organisation and other global bodies.
Western Australia is no exception. The StopMAI Coalition is being joined by many non-government organisations, unions and individuals in organising a series of local protest activities between now and December, to mark the WTO summit in Qatar, which we predict will be a failure, as was its predecessor in Seattle, 1999.
FREE PUBLIC FORUM: "WHOSE TRADE ORGANISATION ?"
At 7 pm on Tues 11 September at the Fremantle Club, there will be an open debate on issues of 'free trade', globalism and the World Trade Organisation.
Speakers will include economist Ms Nicky Cusworth of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA, and representatives of the State's 'fair trade' movement.
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PHONE CONTACTS: Brian Jenkins +61 8 9528 1864; Dion Giles 0411 745 538