Save the Date for the FTAA-MIAMI Ministerial in November. START NOW TO STOP THE FTAA!
Come down to Florida on Wednesday, November 19th. Fight for Fair Trade. Stay the weekend.
Four years ago in February of 1999 in Seattle, a motley network of 80 activists first came together to plan for the civil society mobilization against the WTO. In January, a similarly historic meeting convened in Miami to begin planning a civil society welcome for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) ministerial scheduled for November 17th - 21st in downtown Miami. Labor was there (AFL-CIO local CLC and representatives of over 10 local unions), the Sierra Club was represented, so was the Florida Fair Trade Coalition, Jobs with Justice (JwJ), the Miami Workers Center, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, as was Unite for Dignity, Public Citizen, the Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC), the Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART) and many others. Be a part of this mobilization against corporate-controlled globalization -
and help Stop the FTAA!
There is already talk of:
Teach-ins and seminars, reality tours, concerts and forums, rallies and marches and many more ways to get our message out!
Folks from Florida and around the country will be joined by activists from around the world linking the local issues to the global fights and building solidarity and alternatives.
MEANWHILE: GET CONNECTED: EDUCATE AND ORGANIZE
All over the hemisphere, folks are learning about "NAFTA on Steroids" and fighting corporate rule.
The FTAA is an expansion of NAFTA, a Proven Disaster * It's being negotiated without Citizen Input * The FTAA will undermine Labor Rights, Push Down Wages and cause Job Loss * It will hasten Environmental Degradation * The FTAA will hurt Family Farmers * It will lead to privatization and extreme deregulation of Essential Services * Corporations will be given outrageous rights to sue Governments * The FTAA will jeopardize consumer safeguards * It will spread the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)* It will deny access to lifesaving medicines for millions of people * The FTAA will make the rich richer and increase poverty throughout the hemisphere
There are Proven Alternatives
MARK YOUR CALENDARS - TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
- Contact the Citizens Trade Campaign at 202.778.3320 ftaainfo
citizenstrade.org or if you live in Florida, contact the Florida Fair Trade Coalition at 727.896.8224 infoflfairtrade.org! - Contact Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch at 202.546.4996 or 510.663.0888!
- Visit and "bookmark" www.flfairtrade.org and www.ftaamiami.org for Important Updates!