Peoples' Global Action

At the end of February 600 representatives of peoples movements will meet in Geneva to establish a platform for worldwide action against trade liberalisation - the Peoples' Global Action against "Free" Trade and the WTO (PGA). This will call for nonviolent civil disobedience and the construction of local alternatives by local people as answers to the action of multilateral institutions, governments and corporations. The first big-scale action will be a wave of protests all over the world parallel to the Second Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on May 18-20,1998.

The meeting in February is being convened by a committee formed by some of the most representative peoples' movements of all continents, including peasant movements (like the Brazilian Movimento Sem Terra, the Indian KRRS), indigenous peoples (like the Mexican Zapatistas, the Nigerian Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People), unions and women's organisations. >From Feb 18-21, there will be information and discussions on gender, food production, culture, economics, etc. On Feb 22 there will be a one-day seminar on the WTO, the MAI and trade liberalisation. On Feb 26 there will be co-ordination and planning sessions in small groups. Finally, on Feb 27 there will be a meeting to launch a Europe-wide movement of civil disobedience against "free" trade.

Contact the web page http://www.agp.org or send a message to playfair@asta.rwth-Aachen.de.