(es/en) Nuevo Orden Mundial // New World Order

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                Nuevo Orden Mundial  //  New World Order

                Sí así le tratan a Massachusetts, 
        ¡ imagínese cómo tratarán a América Latina !

                If they treat Massachusetts in such a way, 
        one can imagine how they will treat Latin America !


Abajo envío la conclamación de ecologistas británicos contra la  "Rueda del 
Milenio"  ("Rodada do Milênio / Millenium Round"), la mayor prioridad 
presente del movimiento ATTAC.  El Attac de Francia pide que se la difunda 
mundialmente. El mensaje originalmente se llama  "Turn around the  WTO"  
(Reaccione a la OMC). 

Traduzco este párrafo muy significativo:

                "La OMC siempre pone los intereses de las empresas 
multinacionales en primer lugar, adelante de aquellos de las mujeres, del 
medio ambiente, de los trabajadores, de los consumidores, de los paises 
subdesarrolados y del bien estar de los animales.  También amenaza procesar 
a la defensa de los derechos humanos.  En 1996 el estado de Massachusetts, 
aterrorizado con el tratamiento de los derechos humanos en Burma, aprobó una 
ley que desestimulaba las compras gubernamentales de compañías que hagan 
negocios allá.  La ley es idéntica a otra aprobada en los años ochenta para 
apoyar el movimiento  anti-apartheid en África del Sur, pero Estados Unidos 
y Japón, encorajados por las empresas multinacionales que están perdiendo 
negocios debido a la ley, la impugnaron ante la OMC.   Si la OMC existiera 
en los años ochenta,  Nelson Mandela probablemente todavía estaría en la 
cárcel." 

La conferencia tendrá lugar en Londres el 26 de septiembre.  Las direcciones 
para inscripción y obtención de informaciones sobre la OMC / WTO 
(Organización Mundial del Comercio) y la  "Rueda"  son: 

<http://www.onelist.com>   y   <www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/wto-book.pdf>


Saludos / Saudações  de
Roberto Magellan

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999   Organization: ATTAC
Subject: [ATTAC] TURN AROUND THE WTO conference and leaflet
X-Mailing-List: <welcome at attac.org> archive/latest/369

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Keene <chris.keene at which.net>
Sent: mercredi 28 juillet 1999 22:09
Subject: TURN AROUND THE WTO conference and leaflet


The text beneath is on the flier I am currently sending out.  If you would 
like any hard copies of the flier to distribute, please contact me.


Side 1 TURN AROUND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION

Do you want to eat American beef treated with artificial growth
hormones which could give you cancer?  The World Trade Organisation
thinks you should, and now their panel of trade bureaucrats, which
always meets in secret, has decided that the USA and Canada can impose
trade sanctions on the EU as punishment for protecting the health of
their citizens by banning hormone treated beef.  We don't even need
the extra beef these growth hormones produce; their only function is
to increase the profits of the corporations manufacturing them.  The
WTO always puts the interests of multinational corporations first,
ahead of those of women, the environment, workers, consumers,
developing countries and animal welfare.  It also threatens action to
safeguard human rights.  In 1996 the State of Massachusetts, appalled
at Burma's human rights record, passed a law to discourage state
government purchases from companies doing business there.    The law
was identical to one passed in the 1980s to support the anti-apartheid
movement in South Africa, but the EU and Japan, encouraged by the
multinational corporations who were losing business because of it,
have challenged the law at the WTO.  If the WTO had been around in the
1980s, Nelson Mandela would probably still be in prison.

Since it was set up in 1995, the WTO has failed to live up to its
promise that increasing free trade would lead to increased prosperity
for everyone.  Instead it has caused enormous increases in inequality
and job insecurity.  Now there are plans to increase the WTO's powers
still further, in a new round of negotiations due to start next year,
the so-called Millennium Round.  WE MUST STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING.
Instead, there should be an assessment of the damage the WTO has
already caused, carried out with the full participation of civil
society in an open and transparent way, then a change to the WTO rules
so that they operate for the benefit of citizens and the environment
instead of multinational corporations.  If we want democracy in the
next Millennium rather than corporate rule, we need radical reform of
the WTO now.

NO NEW ROUND - TURN AROUND!

PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE THIS LEAFLET

Side 2 WHAT YOU CAN DO TO STOP THE MILLENNIUM ROUND

Get informed Subscribe to the StopWTORound email list.  Go to
http://www.onelist.com.  In the space beneath By Name or Subject, type
StopWTORound.

Get Public Citizen's booklet on the WTO from the internet at
www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/wto-book.pdf.  If you don't have
access to the internet contact Chris Keene (see bottom of page) for a
copy.

Spread the Word Few people have heard about the proposed Millennium
Round, so tell everyone you know about it - your family, friends,
neighbours, workmates, trade union, religious organisation, etc

Write to your MP Tell them your concerns about the plans to increase
the powers of the WTO and the problems it has caused already.  Tell
them there should be no new round of negotiations.  Ask them to demand
an assessment of the WTO's effects and then a change to its rules to
repair any damage it is found to have done.  And ask them to bring
this to the attention of the Prime Minister.

Join the ANTI-GLOBALISATION NETWORK Contact Chris Keene (see bottom of
page).  It is free, but I would appreciate a donation of £5 per year
to cover postage and production of our newsletter, unless you have
email, in which case  just send me your email address.

Come to the TURN AROUND THE WTO conference Sunday 26 September, 11am -
5pm.   Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Chair: Hilary
Wainwright (Editor of Red Pepper) Speakers: Caroline Lucas MEP (Green
Party); Ronnie Hall (Friends of the Earth); Claire Melamed (Christian
Aid). To register contact Chris Keene

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