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Australia's
WTO capitulation over salmon diseases
How Australia relaxed
its rigorous quarantine standards in pursuit of free trade.
(The guys who kow-towed to Soeharto have now found a new
career path of genuflection.)
Tasmania's
Salmon Fight-back
Australia's smallest
State takes on the world to defend the disease-free status of
its salmon industry--and learns it has no friends in the
Canberra bureaucracy. But the State has clear jurisdiction to
regulate for animal health, and is sticking to its 'line in
the sand'.
The
meaning of Seattle
Here you will find links to all the information about the
collapse of the 1999 Seattle "Free Trade"
Ministerial Conference -- and analysis of civil society's
victory.
At Seattle a statement signed by 1600 civil-society organisations from over 90 countries, both North and South, demanded a halt to further trade liberalisation and for the WTO's rules to be 'reviewed and revised'. Third World Delegates at the WTO didn't want a halt to trade liberalisation, but prior to the meeting the G77 group of developing countries called for a 'review, repair and reform' of the WTO. Amongst the activists on the streets the call was for 'No New Round, Turnaround'.
The
IMF and World Bank protests
Why Civil Society went to Washington DC on April 16, 2000.
(Links to criticism by activists, and by experts including a
former Chief Economist of the World Bank - Joseph
Stiglitz)
Citizens'
Voice
On-line Australian newsletter which promotes fair trade and
opposes the power of multinationals to control economies and
undermine democratic government
Clinton
bombshell annihilated WTO at Seattle
Commentary by Vigdor Schreibman: The WTO
would prohibit, "non-tariff barriers to trade,"
thereby, disregarding under classic market theory the
interdependent social and environmental attributes of
democratic sustainability. The whole idea of WTO is
bizarre. American sociologist James S.
Coleman (1990) has observed that classic
market theory is a "broadly perpetrated
fiction," possessing no logical intellectual
foundation.
The
MAI and WTO Seattle Campaigns, 1998-9
. . .The multinational 'Dracula'
treaty of the 1990s is undead--but the stakes are sharpened!
These pages outline, from an Australian perspective, the
famous internet battles against the attempt by powerful
multinational corporations to bring most of the world's
governments under their control.
StopMAI - The Western Australian grassroot campaign, with a calendar of coming events
OECD
Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
A submission on the process of review (lodged with
Treasury Dept, Feb 00)
Defining Globalisation
A selection of articles compiled by
Global Policy, a United Nations monitor for the labour
movement