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DESCRIPTION:ECUADOR: FREE TRADE, OIL, AND GLOBALIZATION\nSunday, October 13, 7pm\nNew 
 College, 777 Valencia, Room 4, San Francisco\n\nAt the end of this month, 
 thousands of people from the Andes to the Amazon,\nwill be flooding the 
 streets of Quito, Ecuador to protest the closed door\nmeetings between 
 governments and corporate officials to negotiate the "Free\nTrade Area of 
 the Americas" (FTAA), what Ecuadorian’s and people all over\nLatin 
 America are calling the next wave of colonization of the Americas. We\nare 
 honored to hear from three people on the frontlines of resistance to 
 the\nFTAA, and other forms of neoliberal economic policies. They are 
 Willam\nTrujillo, Santiago Karawim, and Efrain Toapanta.\n\nThe speakers 
 will explain the roots of Ecuadorian resistance to the "free\ntrade" agenda 
 and discuss how "free trade" policies and the mandates of 
 the\nInternational Monetary Fund and World Bank have helped wreck 
 Ecuador's\neconomy, fuel a second oil boom in the Amazon, and push 
 indigenous and\ncampesino communities to the brink of collapse—all of 
 which is inciting a\npowerful citizen backlash from one of the strongest 
 indigenous and civil\nsociety movements in the hemisphere. ($5-25 donation. 
 Proceeds directly\nbenefit FTAA mobilization in Quito, Ecuador).\n\nWillam 
 Trujillo, is with the Ecuadorian farmers' federation CONFEUNASSC-CNC\n(the 
 National Confederation of Affiliates for Farmer Security) the 
 most\npowerful national campesino federation in Ecuador and one of the 
 leading\nvoices in the effort to stop the proposed FTAA. Willam is touring 
 the United\nStates to talk about Indigenous Rights, Campesino/Farmer 
 Rights, Ecuador's\nfailed economy under IMF/World Bank plans, resistance 
 efforts in Latin\nAmerica against corporate globalization, and Ecuador's 
 National Campaign\nAgainst the FTAA. In addition to working with 
 CONFEUNASSC-CNC, he has also\norganized student campaigns to democratize 
 education, and done theater and\npuppet work and traditional dance with 
 youth in poor barrios.\n\nSantiago Karawim, is president of FINAE, the 
 governing federation for the\nAchuar people of the southern Ecuadorian 
 Amazon. The Achuar inhabit some two\nmillion acres of primary old growth 
 rainforest and have been leading an\nunwavering campaign of opposition to 
 all oil, mining, and logging in their\nterritory. The Achuar, who had 
 remained isolated until their first contacts\nwith missionaries in the 
 1970s, now face the greatest threat to their\nexistence with plans by 
 multinational oil companies to drill for oil on\ntheir sacred 
 homeland.\n\nEfrain Toapanta, is with Acción Por la Vida (Action for 
 Life), a grassroots\nenvironmental group formed by residents of the town of 
 Mindo. They have been\nfighting the construction of Ecuador’s new heavy 
 crude pipeline, or OCP,\nthrough the Mindo Nambillo Cloudforest Reserve and 
 the surrounding\necologically sensitive forests of northwest Ecuador for 
 over a year. Their\ndetermined resistance led to a peaceful three-month 
 long occupation of the\ntreetops and cloudforest ridgeline of this 
 protected forest to physically\nhalt construction. Their resistance has 
 been met with violent repression at\nthe hands of the Ecuadorian 
 military.\n\nContact: Kien Chou, Global Exchange, 415-558-9486 x350 or 
 Kevin Koenig,\nAmazon Watch, 
 510-419-0617\n\n___________________________________________\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/11823.php
SUMMARY:Ecuador Free Trade, Oil, and Globalization
LOCATION:New College, 777 Valencia, Room 4, San Francisco\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/11823.php
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