PGA Call To Action WTO Summit Qatar

People's Global Action (PGA) is calling on all grassroots social movements, community-based organisations, trade unions, students groups, indigenous peoples, autonomous collectives and everyone who wishes to participate around the world, to carry out actions against the WTO to coincide with the next ministerial summit in Doha, Qatar, November 9th-13th, 2001. Already built into the agenda are trade agreements which cover issues like the privatisation of health, education and water; forcing genetically modified foods and seeds on member countries; and patents on life forms.

Resist the WTO throughout the world through direct action and civil disobedience wherever communities are destroyed and ecosystems sacrificed for the sake of free trade!

A leaflet with more about PGA and the WTO can be downloaded from www.x21.org/pga.

Reports are circulating in the NGO community that the United States will not participate in the Doha Ministerial and the WTO is about to cancel the November meeting because of safety fears.

More info at: www.wtowatch.org.