Groups Organizing

Events Planned

Location

Date of Event

CANADA

Council of Canadians

Public Forum: Keynote Speaker, Mel Hurtig.
Theme: WTO and Canada

Lower Mainland, BC, Justice Institute, New Westminster

12 September

Council of Canadians

“Making the Links anti-WTO carnival” an outdoor event. A day of music, storytelling, discussion circles, info carnival booths, art, and carnivalesque activism to connect our BC issues to the international trade agenda.

Andy Livingstone Park in Downtown Vancouver,

13 September

Council of Canadians

Teach -In

Victoria, VC

9 September

Council of Canadians,

Greater Victoria Seniors, International Socialists, UVic Studen Society, Victoria Labour Council

People’s Assembly

Speakers - Saul Arbess, Terry Wolfwood, Rob Fleming
Entertainment and Information tables
Clowns, balloons, food

Victoria, VC

13 September

APIRG, University of Alberta Students' Union, Alberta Social Forum - Change for Children, University of Alberta International Centre, Council of Canadians, Council of Alberta University Students, Council of Alberta University Students, Parkland Institute -

An (almost) Live Feed with updates from the streets of Cancun with:
Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, and others

Edmonton, AB

13 September

Calgarians for Fair Trade

University of Calgary-We plan to show video tapes, "WTO: Why It Is Bad For You" and a Ralph Nader video on Corporatism

Panel Discussion and an (almost) Live Feed with updates from the streets of Cancun with: Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, and others

Calgary, AB

9 September

Local social justice groups

Festival for Fair Trade

short presentations on their favorite Social Justice Issue at an Open Mic from 2 to 4pm. Food and music are being planned for the afternoon.

Calgary, AB

13 September

Council of Canadians

-Pre-taping a local roundtable discussion

-listen to the panel from Cancun

Kingston, ON

9 September

Council of Canadians

-Roundtable discussion aired from aired from 6-8

101.9 FM or on the web at www.cfrc.ca.

Kingston, ON

15 September

Rally in McBurney Park - corn-roast, face painting, music

14 September

Council of Canadians

Forum - The WTO, Free Trade and Privatization

Windsor, ON

8 September

Council of Canadians

Forum - The WTO, Free Trade and Privatization

Windsor, ON

9 September

CJAM 91.5 FM student radio at the University of Windsor

'All in a Days Work' program hosted by Richard Harding

Windsor, ON

10 September

5 pm

Council of Canadians

Forum and Panel Discussion

include highlights from the day's actions in Cancun

Peel Region, ON

9 September

Council of Canadians

Rally and March - from the U.S. Consulate, along Queen St. to Yonge St.

Peel Region, ON

13 September

Council of Canadians

CFRU

93.3 FM

broadcasting a local panel discussion concerning the WTO from 6:05-7pm, followed by the international panel from 7-8pm. We will broadcast both on CFRU 93.3 FM and via the internet at www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm.

Guelph,ON

9 September

Council of Canadians

OPIRG Ottawa U

"Creating Peace" WTO, Iraq and Cancun - What can we do? (with Creating Peace video with Kai Jacobsen and Senator Mobina Jaffer)

Ottawa,ON

4 September

Council of Canadians

OPIRG Carleton U

World Trade or World Takeover? What Do Current Global Economic Trends Mean for Your Future? ( with Maude Barlow video - Making the Links )

Ottawa,ON

5 September

Council of Canadians

Teach In - World Trade or World Takeover? What Do Current Global Economic Trends Mean for Our Future? (with Maude Barlow video - Making the Links )

Ottawa,ON

9 September

Council of Canadians

NATIONAL TEACH IN
with official report from Cancun, Mexico
featuring Maude Barlow & Vandana Shiva

9 September

Council of Canadians

RALLY, MARCH and FESTIVAL
International Day of Action for Peace and Justice
US Consulate, 360 University Ave, between Queen and Dundas. March will end up in Grange Park with speakers, music and other festivities.

13 September

Council of Canadians

Press conference: 11AM

Link with Cancun: 7 PM CFMH 92.5 FM

Saint John,MB

9 September

Council of Canadians

Movie and discussion: "Life and Debt" - 7:30 pm - Community Health Centre

10 September

Council of Canadians

Rally with speakers (on local issues) and music - Global Day of Action: 12PM, King Square

13 September

Council of Canadians

-screening a video on trade and the WTO featuring Maude Barlow.

-listening to the radio broadcast of "Maing the Links from Cancun" on CHSR 97.9 FM.

Fredericton NB

9 or 13 September

Council of Canadians

Sponsored by the Trading Options Coalition

-Explore the World Trade Organization in a café-style setting.

- Link-up to Maude Barlow and friends in Cancun.

Halifax, NS

9 September

Council of Canadians

Sponsored by the Trading Options Coalition

-Peaceful March from Halifax South Commons

- Family-friendly rally at Grand Parade Square with special guest speakers, vendors, and music and theater performances. Featuring acclaimed folk artist, TIM MACNEIL, popular East Coast African show band, AFRO-MUSICA, and others!

Halifax, NS

13 September

MEXICO

Chiapas, UNORCA, Student groups, Espacio Mexicano, PRD-istas, Carlo Giuliani Caravan, and farmers from Atenco

1,000 plus caravan to Cancun

then in Cancun continue with creative action

Mexico City – Pueblo – Villahermosa- Cancun

September 6-8

September 10- 11 Marches

Vía Campesina/ UNORCA

International Peasant Forum: Food Sovereignty and Free Trade

Cancun

September 8-9

International Peasant March "For Peasant Rights and Food Sovereignty"

Cancun

September 10

Participation in the People’s Forum

Cancun

September 11-14

International March and Global Day of Action Against the WTO

Cancun

September 13

U.S.A

Tour of Shame, Mobilization for Global Justice

We will visit some of the institutions in DC that push the WTO's harmful agendas or are complicit in corporate globalization. We will meet at McPherson Square at noon and commence the tour from there.

Washington, DC

September 12

SWOP Annual Chili Harvest Fiesta, Southwestern Organizing Project

In addition to honoring our Farmworkers, we will have informational tables, speakers, and discussion about the impacts of globalization on our communities.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

September 13

Say No to WTO: Teach In and Creative Action, United for Justice with Peace

Teach In and Creative Action

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

September 13

Rochester Social Forum, Rochester Labor Religion Coalition, Metro Justice, FNB, Rochester IMC

Workshops on WTO, TRIPS and local economic justice issues. Video screening, Street Festival, Rally and March.

Rochester, New York, USA

Sept 10- 14

Money Guns and Aids: No WTO Public Forum, Rally and March, Thomas Merton Center

Town hall meeting on WTO featuring panel of labor organizers, activists and academics.  No WTO Rally and March

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

September 12-13

A Week for Peace and Global Justice

Free Concert and Social Justice Rally, March, Rally & Nonviolent Direct Action at Chevron Texaco Refinery,

Circles of Hope Preemptive Peace Making,

Neighborhood gatherings for Peace and Justice

San Francisco, California

September 6-13

Revolution Summer, Environmental Health Coalition, San Diego WTO Alert, San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice, Activist San Diego, International Socialist Organization, Food not Bombs

Five day convergence in San Diego, in solidarity with the WTO mobilization in Cancun, including teach-ins on the FTAA and the WTO, and a rally and march to the border.

The San Diego/Tijuana border is possibly the clearest symbol of the globalization of oppression.  On one side, one of the wealthiest cities in the country, home to a huge biotechnology industry and home to the largest military concentration anywhere in the world. On another side of the border, the people directly affected by the "Free Trade" policies who are fighting to survive in poverty, and struggling to gain access to the United States.

San Diego, California, USA

Sept 10 - Sept 14

Costa Rica

Encuentro Popular and Friends of the Earth Costa Rica

Organized a public forum informing the general public on upcoming WTO negotiations in Cancun: the following day was dedicated to a strategy session convening trade unions, student, youth, women, and environmental groups in the country to brainstorm ways to continue to collaborate together in resistance to the upcoming WTO Round in Mexico.

Costa Rica

Oilwatch

Is putting together a small booklet aimed at youth-student groups in the country and region explaining in comprehensible terms the WTO working structure and the main issues to be discussed at the negotiating table in Cancun.

Costa Rica

Guatemala

CEIBA-Mesa Global Guatemala

Meetings with trade ministers in order to make public Guatemala´s official position on agriculture, services, and intellectual property rights in relation to upcoming WTO negotiations.

- A series of educational forums with farmer and indigenous groups in the rural areas of the country.

- A series of educational forums in Guatemala City. - Organizing a "Camino a Cancun" bus tour from Guatemala City to Cancun, giving Guatemalan- and other activists from the region- the opportunity to participate in the alternative forums and protests in Cancun.

Guatemala

Honduras

FOE Honduras and other Civil society groups

Organized a series of protests

Honduras

Nicaragua

Friends of the Earth

Publishing position documents on agriculture and intellectual property rights. They are also actively organizing educational workshops - forums with farmer organizations in the country, highlighting agricultural negotiations within the WTO.

Nicaragua