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1998 SPECIAL REPORT
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PEOPLE”S GLOBAL ACTION! www.apg.org
STOP THE KILLER CORPORATIONS!
Snapshots from the voices of global resistance.
EAST TIMOR, CANADA, ARGENTINA, SOUTH KOREA,
INDIA, AOTEAROA/NZ, AZTLAN, USA, GENEVA, MEXICO.
Over half of the top 100-economies
of the world are not countries, but
corporations: The World Trade
Organisation, 50 years old on May
18th 1998, is the cosy home of their
free trade bliss. General Motors is
bigger than South Africa, Shell
mightier than Norway, IBM eclipses
Pakistan. Mitsubishi, for example, is
-- now the fifth largest "country" in -
the world. "We are writing the
constitution of a single global
economy,'' boasts the WTO's
Renato Ruggerio. Welcome to the
new world government. Welcome
to the united colours of global
resistance.
"Multinational Corporations are ... the
shock troops of the imperial powers."
john Pilger, Hidden Agendas, 1998.
(Vintage; ISBN 0-099-74151-2)
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Disclaimer: This leaflet is not designed to
inspire to conspire. Stay at home and watch
TV. Then you will feel content. Honest!
“In the short term the future's really good. I couldn't have
foreseen this in my dreams. There is going to be a shock
around the world, I mean it is gonna be like an
earthquake. It's the first stirrings of something really massive
across the world. The fuse has been lit on a really big piece of
dynamite, y'know. Sometimes the fuse goes out or someone
cuts it, but if it goes on like this we are gonna have a real
explosion of a movement. Since '68 we haven't had this kind of
special smell in the air."
Olivier de Marcellus, a grey-haired Swiss lecturer, is
positively throbbing with excitement. He's one of the
coordinating team of a new ad hoc international group called
People's Global Action, where more than 300 delegates from 71
countries came to Geneva to share their anger over corporate
rule.
"It is difficult to describe the warmth and the depth of the
encounters we had here. The global enemy is relatively well-
known, but the global resistance that it meets rarely passes
through the filter of the media. And here we met the people
who had shut down whole cities in Canada with general strikes,
risked their lives to seize lands in Latin America, destroyed the
seat of Cargill in India or Novartis's transgenic maize in France.
The discussions, the concrete planning for action, the stories of
struggle, the personalities, the enthusiastic hospitality of the
Genevan squatters, the impassioned accents of the women and
men facing the police outside the WTO building, all sealed an
alliance between us. Scattered around the world again, we will
not forget. We remain together. This is our common struggle."
Over half of the top I 00 economies of the world are not
countries, but corporations. And the World Trade Organisation
(WTO) is the cosy home of their free trade bliss here in
Geneva, the capital of world capital. General Motors is bigger
than South Africa, Shell mightier than Norway, IBM eclipses
Pakistan. Mitsubishi, for example, is now the fifth largest
'country' in the world. "We are writing the constitution of a
single global economy", boasts the WTO's Renato Ruggerio.
Welcome to the new world government. Welcome to the
united colours of global resistance.
"We have to start aiming at the head," explains Olivier.
"We have been militants fighting against nuclear power, against
housing, sexism. Different tentacles of the monster. You are
never really going to do it that way, you really have to aim at
the head."
The process began with the Zapatista-inspired ' Encuentro'
in Mexico in 1996. "The Encuentro launched the idea of people
working horizontally across the world, this international of
Hope. They are the brain. Like a huge commercial fair of ideas
and initiatives. The network you construct is ... a fuzzy thing.
Another kind of network would be to organise towards one
very precise objective - Fuck the World Trade Organisation.
There's room for both the general circulation of ideas, and also
to make the networks work you have to do something. It was
a big vision."
The World Trade Organisation was born out of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the global fast-forward
button to corporate domination. It enshrined the 'free' trade
market and exists as a 'stand alone' body. It is the vehicle not
only for manufactured goods but also agriculture, trades in
services and TRIPs (Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights).
TRIPs are far out - they allow multinationals to patent life for
profit, whether it is the genes of a tribe in Ecuador or the
seeds of an indigenous plant in India.
International trade treaties have become the most
important phenomenon in globalisation. The latest scam is
known as the Multilateral Agreement on Investment. The
respected writer and broadcaster john Pilger describes the
MAI as "the most important imperial advance for half a
century".
Inside a Parisian bunker, every six weeks since 1995,
representatives of the 29 richest countries on Earth - including
the UK - have been plotting this new deal in secrecy and in
haste. It is an agreement that would, at a stroke, legally bind together
these countries for a minimum of 20 years and seek to
invalidate all domestic environmental, social and labour
protections to the greater rights' of money in the
international ' free' market.
The real clout in the MAI is the right it gives companies to
sue governments for large damages. In what is known as the
pay the polluter' case, the Ethyl Corporation of America is
suing the Canadian government for $367 million dollars for
banning the use of MMT, a controversial gasoline additive,
which it makes in Ottawa. It wants "immediate compensation
for imposing legislation which hinders its operations [profits]"
under free trade rules identical to the MAI.
But across the globe resistance is growing. In May this year
actions were taking place across the globe to mark the rage
against the WTO celebrations of their 50th anniversary. The
fury ranged across all continents from Canada to Columbia,
Bangladesh to Aotearoa/NZ Over 30 cities, from Ankara to
San Francisco were holding the first global street party on the
same day with the slogan: "our resistance will be as global as
capital!"
And in Geneva itself several hundred Indian farmers, Italian
train-jumpers, French unemployed marchers, German caravan
convoyers were spoiling the party. The united colours of global
action are serious. But when I asked a smiling Olivier to give
his statement to the world he summed up the spirit: "This," he
said, "is really fun!"
MAORI
INDEPENDENCE
Mereana Is a historian and grandmother
from Aotearoa/New Zealand. She takes
part in direct action as part of the
movement for political sovereignty for the
Maori people.
"We were the last of the Pacific
countries to be colonised, under
the Waitangi Treaty of 1840. Britain dumped
it's poor and sent them out to the world. In
Aotearoa/NZ, 750,000 immigrants outnumbered
Maoris three to one, by 1900 there were
only 42,000 of us left out of a quarter of a
million.
"In the early 1970s, Maori students went
to university for the first time and gained a
political conscience. To educate the oppressed
is not a good thing! From there came a
number of contemporary Maori sovereignty
movements. It's been a process of learning
our own language again, and what we call
Pueaoeao (reclamation). The Maori Unity
Movement/Kotahitanga was founded in I 9B3
by the late Eva Rickard. There are many
organisations affiliated to pressing the Maori
claim to 70% of the country's land. We are
now a fifth of the 3.5 million population and
maybe half of us reclaim our identity as Maori
- the movement is growing.
"Fiji is the closest model we have. The
indigenous became outnumbered by
immigrant Indians, but staged a coup under
Rabuka in 1987. Now the whole system is
once again based on Fijian customary law. We
believe in lore not law. Natural laws
accumulate over centuries, about how we
behave, how we treat the land, how we fish,
about burying the dead, birthing babies,
speaking our language. We call it Tika - The
Truth. Our culture's lores have preceeded the
country's laws, made by groups of White
people, customary laws are not negotiable.
"In the last ten years Aotearoa/NZ has
been a big experiment in free market
enterprise. A decade ago our government
began to dismantle trade unions, put up
student fees, sell off all the state assets, bring
in fishing quotas then give it all to the
multinationals.
"The government offered a 'fiscal
ARGENTINIAN
HUNGER STRIKE
Alejandro Demichelis, is the press secretary
of CTERA, the Federation of Argentinian
Teachers. They have been an a 'rolling'
hunger strike outside the Argentinian
Congress in the 'White Tent of Dignity'
since April 2nd 1997. In an imaginative
tactical protest up to fifty different
teachers are refusing food each month, to
highlight massive World Bank-Inspired cuts
In education.
"The last few years has seen the
privatisation of all public services of
the country - water, rail, communications,
gas... they are now trying to destroy public
education. The state doesn't give enough
money to the provinces, so some departments
have high quality education but others
are without resources. They dosed some
schools and courses, so the conflict started
hard with four huge demonstrations.
"Different working times meant a normal
strike, was not possible. Also, the mass media
which is controlled by the government would
say we are harming children's education. So
we decided to build a White Tent of Dignity in
front of the congress.
"Hundreds and thousands of teachers
and children came to the tent. At first the
media was confused, they asked 'what is this?'
Then they gave support. They collected a
petition of 1,200,000 calling for the Education
Act. 200,000 people, including children, went
CANADA GENERAL
STRIKE
Dave Bleakney works for the Canadian
Union of Postal Workers, one of the
country's more radical unions. He
recounts the events leading to their three week
strike in December'97.
"We were telling everyone that we're
going on strike so no-one was
mailing anything - and then we didn't go on
strike. Post Offices were empty and we're all
just sitting around talking and they were
paying us. It really fucked them up and they
didn't know what to do they were going nuts
- finally they started laying off people and then
at that point, once one person got laid off, the
whole place went on strike.
" It was beautiful, in Toronto, four
thousand people on the picket lines. There
were no scabs this, 'cos last time we really put
the run to scabs - they didn't even try it this
time. In '91 they had to hire helicopters to get
the bosses out of the plant because we
wouldn't let them out, we didn't let anybody
in or out for a week This time they thought
envelope' of $1 Billion to settle all Maori
claims for land six years ago. Our paramount
chief called together all 44 nations who
unanimously rejected the plan. So then the
government introduced the Resource
Management Act of 1992, which acknowledged
Maori ownership of land but said that
everything above and below that land
belonged to the state! So the trees belong to
us, even though you own the land, and they
negotiate with multinationals for the cutting
rights - and so we've been protesting.
"Our protests are quite like yours -
innovative. We cut down pine trees, behead
statues, bum down forests. Because we are
only a small nation against a huge military
force we have to innovate. We can't take up
arms, but we can chain up bridges. We carried
huge chains, about 80 of us, and stopped
traffic and had a party and left. We occupy our
lands, we steal huge million-dollar paintings.
We occupy construction sites, destabilise
machinery. We hack down flagpoles. Recently
the government dropped poison to kill the
possums on the land of one nation, so they
threw all the possums, on a truck, dumped
them on the steps of the environment
department and split them open.
"There's a huge education program going
on teaching the population about history, and
a lot more Whites are also finding out that
we've ALL been lied to. The government is
frightened to be morally challenged by its'
own people, and has reacted by becoming a
lot more divorced from the people. They are
doing all their deals but there's nothing on the
news. Multinationals are increasingly capturing
small governments. But I'm optimistic about
our own struggle and our own people.
"I'm really concerned about the impact of
the economics of globalisation on our people.
Specifically I'm looking at genetic engineering
and the patenting of indigenous people's
genes and the whole concept of cultural and
intellectual properties. Because fundamental
to our culture's survival is that we remain in
charge of our customary laws and our plants
and certainly our life pattern.
"The namer of names is the father of all
things. I'd like to see us start naming some
names and tracking them. We've got Rio Tinto,
which have huge subsidiaries. Find the enemy.
They hate it when you're in their face."
on hunger strike for two days.
"When Clinton came to Argentina we
held a big march at night with torches. The
most important ballet group in Argentina
came to the tent, streets around the tent
were completely occupied. Many very famous
Spanish singers came. There was a football
match in the street and the traffic was
stopped - it was very funny.
"There's been five national strikes and
eight marches against the govt. One week
they built tents in front of the local parliaments
where different teachers made a one
week hunger strike. There was also solidarity
from Paraguay, Chile, Brazil, and in Uruguay
they made a ten day hunger strike.
"Despite everything, the Education
minister wrote a terrible Act inspired by the
World Bank who want to give $600M to the
government in return for a Structural
Adjustment Programme. We asked for an
increase in taxes for the rich people and the
richest businesses in the country. Education
and health are the last two sectors not to be
privatised. In Argentina there is 20% unemployment
due to Structural Adjustment.
"For one year people have been very
worried about public education, so that is a
real victory. And also they have created
networks that are wider than just education.
We hope that law will be passed but if it
doesn't happen we will keep on with the
struggle. An important fact is that, before, the
young people didn't like the unions because of
how the unions were run. But now they see
there are honest, uncorrupted unions that
would rather die fighting than on their knees."
'they're going to strike we're just going to
dose the Post Office, we're not even going to
try that this time'.
"We found that government and big
business and employers had colluded behind
closed doors. We had written evidence, a
memo from a meeting that the board of the
Direct Mail Association had had with the
government minister responsible for the Post
Office and a representative of our employer,
basically laying out explicitly what they were
going to do to us.
"It occurred to us that maybe we
shouldn't be targeting our employer, but these
other fuckers too, right? We shut down major
streets, and then closed the international
Airport for a half-day. Really time-sensitive
shit not making it on to the planes.
"Canadians are considered a very pliant,
peaceful people, and just chase bears and that
sort of thing you know - and play hockey of
course ... In the past two years, we've had ten
city-wide general strikes in Ontario. A few
years 380 if you chanted 'general strike'
people looked like you were crazy, the postal
workers would do, but everyone would look
at us like we're nuts. Now people are picking
it up."
KANATAKA
FARMERS
STATE
Professor Nanjundaswamy, 62, is a farmer
and the president of the ten-ml/lion
strong Karnataka State Farmers'
Association (KRRS). Their Gandhian-style
brand of direct action has seen 50,000
members lauging at a government
building taking apart every brick of a
Cargitrs building, and publicly burning a
Kentucky Fried Chicken branch. This last
action left him with on attempted murder
charge which Is still hanging ewer his
head. He lives In Bangalore, the capital of
Kamataka (literally 'the priceless gift of
Indulgent nature') the city with the most
multinational corporate power in India
and the only source of gold and silver.
U I have a farm, my family have been farming
for centuries. We formed a farmer's
union at all state levels and we have an
interstate committee of all India. The KRRS
organised itself within the state. Non farmers
are not admitted to the
organisation, nor are members of other
political organisations.
"We believe in direct action and direct
AZTLAN - A NEW
NATION
Bobby used to be leader of the largest
Chicano gang in Los Angeles, and spent
fourteen years In prison where he was
tortured. In prison he met Leonard
Peltier, leader of the American Indian
Movement who turned him Into a
revolutionary.
U I represent the Salaam Liberation
Organisation, an independence
movement in the south western United
States. The majority of the population in
California, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona
and Texas are indigenous. We are not
Mexican, and we are not American, we want
to form a new nation of which we are the
majority and we call that Anlan. Aztlan is
where the Anec people came - and we are
re-claiming that land.
"We are denied education, equal rights
on labour, the right to speak our own
languages. We are not able to work or when
we do work we are still in poverty so we've
got to steal to feed our people. Our youth
have been criminalised; 85% are in there for
selling marijuana or possessing small
amounts. Then they created three strikes.
One of my kids stole some balloney and he
SOUTH KOREA RIOT
TACTICS
'Kwon' Is from the group on Polley and
Information Centre for Solidarity.
"The USA made South Korea a capitalist
window. Because of North Korea's
extreme communism, in South Korea there is
still a national security law so we cannot so
we c:annot have communism and we cannot
resist the fundamental concept of capitalism.
If we say we reject the capitalist concept we
will be arrested. The Socialist Workers
Associations existed in the early 1990s but
this organisation was underground. It's
leaders, Paek Pae Oony and Park No Hae, are
now in jail. They will be there for their whole
lives.
"There was a general strike for two
months last winter. In Seoul maybe 300,000
people were fighting the government's globalisation
programme. The biggest rally, for the
Revision of the Evil Labor Law and the
Victory of the General Strike was held in
Chongmyo Park. We fought the police. When
the distance is far we throw stones and
burning bottles. When close we use metal
pipes. About 200 people were arrested. But
the struggle was across the nation: in one
region someone burned themselves. This is
also the way of protesting m S. Korea. The
leadership of the Korean Federation of Trade
Unions cut their hair. Many people had a
hunger strike in Myongdong Cathedral in the
centre of Seoul. But the general strike failed.
"After the financial crisis in December
'97 the new president, Kim Tae Jung, was
elected. He and the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) imposed a new globalisation programme
on the Korean people. The plan has
affected our salaries. Many people say their
salaries have dropped and have not received
them for several months. Korean capitalists
said we must reduce our pay or face layoffs."
EAST TIMOR CONGRESS
Ceu Brltes Is from the East Timar Relief
Association. She has been in exile for 22
years.
U In 1998 East Tirnor is still under military
control. We have to ask permission to
move around. They used to use sticks but
since the Dili massacre in 1991 they use gas.
political methods. Our democratically
elected representatives have failed us in
India. The only alternative for any people in
the human democracy is to protect
themselves with direct action. 37
multinationals are in my city, Bangalore, and
all 3 7 have been given free police protection
by the state government.
"Trade Related Intellectual Property
rights [TRIPs] would mean peasant laws
being changed according to American
desires ... we are planning to violate that law
from day one. We would like a movement
similar to the salt movement Gandhi
launched against the British, and start. selling
our own indigenous seeds in the streets.
Whatever they do in Geneva could not be
implemented in India.
"The Multilateral Agreement on Investment
would also be a disaster to all the
countries. It yields sovereign status to
multinational corporations. They'd be able to
sue sovereign governments. We will be
separated by miseries like unemployment
and poverty. They can transfer anything to
any other country because of cheap labour.
Most of the Multinationals think it is more
profitable to transfer their industries to
countries who have laws which are lenient.
was caught, then he stole a car radio and was
sent to prison. When he got out he didn't
have any money and they gave him really
outrageous looking clothes to wear, so he
stole a pair of Levi's. Now he's in prison for
twenty five years for stealing bologna, a radio
and some Levi's.
"If we fight for affirmative action, fight
for housing, if we fight for all these little band
aids we get nowhere, the only real way, is to
take the land from our own government and
get rid of the United States of America. We
can talk about free trade today, or
immigrants tomorrow, but it's pushing little
band aids while we haemorrhage because of
the world system.
"In 1992 our movement, the Movimento
Liberation de Nacional, the Independence
Movement of Porta Rico, the Black Panthers,
the New African Peoples organisation, the
Black liberation movement and white
resisters of north America came together.
We got Francis Boil, a professor of international
law to help us develop a document
so we could prosecute the United States of
America and dissolve the federal system,
which was found guilty of genocide and
committing human rights violations. Now
there are groups like Food not Bombs and
Earth Firs1:! who are joining us. This is not a
racial thing - we need the white people who
FOOD NOT
BOMBS
Keith McHenry Is the cofounder of
food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails,
October 22nd No Police Brutality Day
and is active in the Free Radio across
the USA.
"We are in a really brutal period
where there are 800,000 more
people in US prisons which has doubled in
two years. The national welfare programme
was abolished last year, so many people are
becoming homeless. Homelessness is huge.
"The Police State is becoming huge.
With the Crime Bill the Clinton
administration called for I 0,000 more cops
on the streets. In San Francisco it is virtually
impossible to protest. You assemble for a
short while but it's very unusual for them
to allow protests to end. They like to round
you up and arrest you.
"And then there's the Counter
Terrorism Bill. In San Francisco they've put
$2M into informants - to pay people to lie
about you - so there is this whole system
on a new level.
"The economy is collapsing. Some
people are getting super. super rich but the
majority are getting so, so poor. And so
there is the resistance. The Militia movement
is probably the most famous. Europeans
assume the Militia are White
Supremacists, Nazis, Ku Klux Klan. There are
many of these. But there are a lot of
independent militias, white & black who are
trying to organise areas that are independent
of the US. So there's been alliances
between left-activists and Militia members.
Some have joined Food Not Bombs
because they were angry that the
government was shutting us down for
serving food.
We are forced to sell our land because Tutu,
Suharto's daughter, is selling this oil rich land,
our land, to multinationals to exploit it. We
also have the rarest marble in the world. The
health situation is very bad. We can send only
two doctors to East Timor who can stay for
just three months. Tuberculosis is rife
because of a lack of treatment and expensive
medicines.
"But, since the East Timorese Bishop
The North and South has to work
together whether it is fighting industrialisation
or patents on life forms, patents on
plants and seeds. The impact is not just on
the South, the impact is global, it has an
impact on the whole of humanity. There will
be an erosion of bio-diversity through TRIPs
and technology. I always compare it to
Siamese twins - what happens to the South
has implications to the North and vice versa.
We have to work hand in hand.
"The name given by Gandhi for non violent
civil disobedience, Satyagraha, literally
means fight of truth. It is a non-violent fight.
It's about violating unjust laws and facing the
consequences, being prepared to suffer for
the cause to the extent of sacrificing one's
life. In no circumstances do you retaliate.
"For example, when we targeted
Kentucky Fried Chicken our activists didn't
run away. They sat on the street waiting for
the police to arrive, were arrested and went
to jail. We don't disown what we have done
- we say that we have done it, and done the
right thing. The American ambassador
insisted that I be arrested even though I
wasn't present at the event and I have been
falsely charged with attempted murder and
the case is still pending."
live in Anlan as well.
"We are exercising our legal right to
self-determination, to reclaim our land in
violation of treaties and being guilty of
genocide. We have to take the lead, and
overthrow the United States to make the
whole world safer. We are not a pacifist
organisation - you must understand our
need to defend ourselves. Just a few months
ago the police walked into our leaders house
and in front of his mother shot their baby
thirteen times. They are sending the same
message they did to the American Indian
Movement. What I'm gonna tell you right
now is so mind boggling: Two weeks ago we
had a treaty between the Chicano gangs and
the black gangs. In Los Angles there's now
one gang with 20,000 members. Myself and
Russell Means and Zack Delayrose from
Rage Against The Machine, had 1200
different gang members in one spot with
Rage playing - these guys didn't fight each
other, and I told them to ask whose land is it
- and they all shouted back' our land'.
"We ain't no political party, it's a matter
of you gotta do something fuckin' now man
- the rainforests are gone, the fish are
floating on top of the water - we don't have
to get lab experts to figure our what the
fuck is causing their death - they dead
"Food Not Bombs started 18 years
ago, and we've been arrested 1,000 times in
San Francisco for serving food, and it is
starting to expand across America. One of
the big problems for the state is that it is a
very good organising tool. They are worried
that people will be empowered because we
are able to get our own food and
resources. The fact that we are taking care
with ourselves, and having a sense of
independence freaks the government and
they don't want that. We embarrass the
government by being unemployed people
who feed hundreds of people for free and
they are saying we need more tax dollars to
feed the homeless.
"We have 400 unlicensed radio
stations and we've been building radio
transmitters. Maybe five years ago people
would be frightened to do free radio. Ten
years ago people wouldn't squat - you
could get five years. For some people being
outside prison and being inside isn't much
different. In fact for many, being in prison is
better because you have running water, TV,
food comes every day and your clothes are
washed.
"There's no guaranteed welfare in the
US. They have to make you work. The
theory is that if you do this Workfare you'll
learn a skill. you end up having a job. The
reality is that they had to lay off all the city
workers in each of the municipalities and
replaced them by people getting Workfare.
So you might have been getting $ ! 0 a hour
as a City employee, with full health benefits
and retirement. They lay you off and then
within three or four months you're doing
the same job on Workfare with no benefits
working for $136 every two weeks. In San
Francisco the cheapest apartment would be
$400 a month. There's a new statistic that
70% of the homeless are employed, but
they just never make enough money to live.
Carlos Filipe Ximines Belo and Jose Ramos
Horta won the joint 1996 Nobel Peace Prize
we have been able to organise more openly
within countries in the Asia Pacific region.
"And in Lisbon this May ('98) we will
hold the Timorese National Congress - like
the African National Congress - to look
forward to forming our own government. It
could happen in just a few year's time."
Half the world hasn't even used a telephone - let
alone a computer - yet many global resistance groups
find a way of being on the 'net. Solidarity with the
indigenous Zapatistas has established a strong
international network against globalisation inspired
by communiques via a laptop from the Laconda jungle
of South East Mexico (www.ezln.org).
FOOD NOT BOMBS daily discussion:
http://www.tao.cal-fnbtorlfnb-/lsubjecthtml home page:
http://home.earchlink.net/-foodnotbombsl e-mail:
foodnotbombs@earthlink.net How To Feed The Hungry
And Build Community & free info pack from: J 145
Gary Bvd No. 12, San Francisco, Ca 9411 a.
AZTLAN - a new nation e-mail:amica@earthhnk.net
CANADA GENERAL STRIKE home page:
http://www.iwindow.com/cupwl ARGENTINIAN HUNGER
~ home page (Spanish):e-mail: aera@wamanlapc.org
http:llwww.wamani.apc.org/cteral
SOUTH KOREA RIOT TACTICS home page:
http://kpd.sing-kr.org/strikelindex-e.html e-mail:
sing.office@mail.sing.kr.org
MAORI INDEPENDENCE Aotearoa/NZ
asykes@clear.net nz
EASTTIMOR CONGRESS home page:
http://www.pactok.net.au/docsletl etra@pactok.net
KANATAKA STATE FARMERS e-mail:
We have been militants fighting against nuclear power, for
housing, against sexism. It's different tentacles of the
monster. You are never really going to do it that way, you
really have to aim at the head." Olivier, Geneva
World Trade Orgaisation, 15 4 Rue de Lausanne, Postbox
1211 , Geneva 21, Switzerland.Te/:004122739511 /.
Fax: 0041 22 731 4206
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To find out more about the WTO and globalisation:
People's Global Action http://www.agp.org
Reclaim Europe! http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5581 /
Corp. Europe Observatory http:llwww.xs4al/.nl/-ceo/Multinational
Monitor http:llwww.essential.org/monitorl
Corporate Watch (UK) http:llwww.oneworld.org/cw/
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Order the leaflet 'Hot Spring 98' for an excellent digest or
globalisation and resistance. Free/donation from:
A SEED Europe, PO Box 92066, 1090 AB Amsterdam,
Netherlands. Tel: +JI 20 668 2236. Fax: J / 20 665 0166.
aseedeur@antenna.nl www.antenna.nf/aseed
http://www.cbuzz.co.uk/SchNEWS (updated weekly)
schnews@brighton.co.uk (send message 'subscribe'
for free weekly newsletter)
(www.pangea.org/encuentro). This led to the formation
of People's Global Action (www.agp.org) in Geneva '98,
to fight globalisation and to strike at the heart of the
beast - The World Trade Organisation. If you do not
have access to the web but have e-mail, -pl~ase
contact Rga@agp.org. For free e-mail, ask a friend to
set you up on <www.hotmail.com.> These sites are
updated regu!arly and the addresses have been
checked. Don't go surfing, go diving:
"The namer of names is the father of all things. I'd like to see us start
naming some names and tracking them. Find the enemy. They hate it
when your in their face ." Mereana,Aotearoa/NZ
We asked which multinationals people should take action
against. Subsidiaries exist around the globe - here we give only
the UK details. Do some research , or contact the BOOKMARKS
on the left.
SHELL - Oil & Gas.The Shell group is the second largest mutinational
on Earth. Responsible for collusion with the military in
the murders of Nigeria's Ogoni people, and environmental
outrages in that country and worldwide. Too much to list. Shell
Centre, London SE I 7NA, UK. +44 (OJ 171 9JO 2399. Chairman:
Car A) Herkstroter, Weteringlaan 8224gj, Wassenaar, Netherlands.
Vice Chairman: )Sjennings, 16 Mi/borne Gr, London, UK.
MONSANTO Genetics, chemicals, plastics and medicines.
From the makers of Agent Orange and the bovine growth
hormone BST have come genetically modified Roundup Ready
Soya beans, now in up to 60% of processed foods. PO Box 5J
Lands End Rd, High Wycombe, Bucks HP 12 4HL, UK. +44 (OJ 1494
474 918. Chairman: Michael Ford, 10
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