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In 2003, OCA Led a Delegation to WTO Protests in Cancun, Mexico. This Page is an Archived Resource of that Event
Travel Package and Information on World Trade Organization (WTO) Protests
in Cancun, Mexico
(September 4-11, 2003)
In 1999, the OCA helped organize protests and teach-ins against the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle. The "Battle of Seattle", as it came to be known, was the coming of age of the global grassroots in its attempt to stop the headlong rush of corporate globalization…
Now you have the opportunity to join Ronnie Cummins and other OCA staff on an escorted delegation to the historic teach-ins and protests against the WTO in Cancun, Mexico.
Over 150,000 concerned citizens from North and South America, Europe, and
Asia are expected to converge on Cancun, including leading farm, food, Fair
Trade, and anti-GE activists. They'll attend a wide range of workshops, forums,
and cultural events. Following up on the theme of the World Social Forum in
Porto Alegre, Brazil, "Another World is Possible," the emphasis in Cancun
will be on presenting alternatives to corporate globalization.
Organizers emphasize that public events will be strictly non-violent, and that any civil disobedience protests will be organized separately from the teach-ins and educational workshops.
Trade analysts predict that the outcome of the WTO Ministerial in Cancun will largely determine whether such corporate globalization schemes as genetic engineering, water privatization, investment and social services privatization, and patenting of drugs and life forms will go forward. In the wake of the unpopular war in Iraq, the Bush administration will likely find itself increasingly isolated. As Simon Harris of the OCA puts it, "Cancun may very well mark the beginning of the end of the WTO".
The OCA delegation, limited to 100 people, will include experts on genetic engineering and organic agriculture such as Ronnie Cummins, OCA National Director; Dr. Michael Hansen, from the Consumers Union; Laura Miller and John Stauber, publishers of PR Watch, a leading source of information on corporate power and propaganda; and Ryan Zinn, OCA's Chiapas-based biodiversity specialist. These leaders, and others, including Mexican activists, will provide in-depth presentations and workshops for delegation participants.
During the week of teach-ins and protests, September 4-11, the OCA delegation will be housed in comfortable accommodations in the city of Cancun. Costs for a shared double room, meals, seminars, and transport to and from the teach-ins and activities will be $850 (airfare not included). Private rooms are available for an additional $200.
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News Headlines:
- 9/7 - On Eve of WTO Meeting US Family Farmers Speak Out
- 9/1 - Via Campesina Mobilizes against the WTO in Cancun
- 9/1 - Report Shows Large Transnationals Manipulate WTO
- 9/1 - US Corn Subsidies Are Devastating Mexican Farmers
- 8/14 - URGENT APPEAL: Help Mexican peasants and indigenous people get to WTO Cancun
- 8/14 - Antiglobalization Woodstock on the road to Cancun
- 8/11 - Via Campesina Call for Global Action
- 8/7 -INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
- 8/5 - Turning The Trade Tables
- 8/5 - Free Trade™
- 7/31 - FTAA-WTO : Agriculture at the center of the debate
- 7/31 - Corporate Greed is Killing off the World's Fish
- 7/31 - Transatlantic GMO fight threatens WTO talks
- 7/31 - Precautionary Principle May Become Law in California
- 7/31 - Cancun: why you should care 7/30 - WTO "Mini" Ministerial in Montreal Spells Trouble for Cancun Talks
- 7/30 -Andes Traditional Farmers Under Siege by Industrial Agriculture
- 7/23 - WTO Officials Scrambling to beat Cancun Deadline
- 7/23 - From Cancún to Cancún: mega-diverse pretense
- 7/21 - Post Iraq Backlash Hits US Brand Names
- 7/21 - The TRIPS review at a turning point?
- 7/21 - The Rigged Trade Game: The WTO in the Philippines
- 7/21 - Email & the Internet Rewires the U.S. Social Change Movement
- 7/21 - Bush OK of Methyl Bromide Use by Agribusiness Will Destroy OzoneTreaty
- 7/16 - Trade Obligations Rubber Stamping Unsafe Meat Importations
- 7/16 - Free Trade Problems--Fair Trade Solutions
- 7/15 - WTO in Cancun: Key Issues and Groups in Mexico
- 7/14 - WTO Codex to Allow Dangerous Levels of Food Irradiation
- 7/14 - FTAA Miami Organizers Strapped for Cash
- 7/12 - Wall Street Concerned over Mass Movement of Landless in Brazil
- 7/12 - Binational Family Farm Alliance Forms
- 7/9 - WTO Negotiations Stall
- 7/9 - Merchants of Greed Take Over Iraqi Agriculture
- 7/3 - The Crisis of the WTO and the Crisis of the Globalist Project
- 7/2 -WTO Charm Offensive
- 7/2 - World's Farmers Unite against the WTO
- 6/28 - Consumer Groups Call on US Gov. to Drop WTO GMO Case
- 6/26 - Corporations Worried by New "Precautionary Principle" Law in SanFrancisco
- 6/25- Join the OCA for the WTO Teach-ins & Protests in Cancun Mexico
- 6/24- Biosafety Protocol Will Give Nations the Right to Reject GE Crops
- 6/16 - US WTO Challenge Could Destroy International GMO BioSafety Treaty
- 6/16 - US Conservatives Take Aim at Non-Governmental Pubic InterestOrganizations
- 6/12 - Just say no" to GMOs in Brazil
- 6/12 - USTR up to its old tricks, again
- 6/12 - Globalization and GMOs
- 6/10 - Call Your Representative Today To Oppose WTO Suit on GE Foods
- 6/10 - GMO Issue Intensifies Globalization/WTO Debate
- 6/6 - WTO Throwing Precaution to the Wind
- 6/6 - Millions of Reasons to Say No to the FTAA
- 6/5 - Clock is ticking for Cancun
- 6/2 - Global Assembly Calls for an End to World Trade Organization
- 5/30 - WTO ministerials look to be second Seattle
- 5/19 - National Family Farm Coalition Denounces U.S. WTO Suit
- 5/15 - African WTO Challenge to Cotton Subsidies "Vital For Millions"
- 5/14 - Press Release OCA Condemns Announcement of WTO challenge on Modified Foods
- 4/16 - Key issues for Mexico at the WTO Cancun Ministerial
- 3/12 - WTO, US Subsidies Starving Mexican Corn Farmers
- 1/30 - Republicans Leaders Ask Bush to take GMO dispute to the WTO
- 1/3 - US Drugs Stance Threatens WTO
2002
- 12/12 - WTO Trade Negotiations Are Stalled
- 9/18 - WTO Boosters Lump Globalization Critics with "Terrorists"
- 4/8- WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) Harms Small Farmers
- 3/19- WTO Bureaucrats Grill EU & China on GE Regulations