Palo Alto- Stop WTO Action

Mobilizations of People Increase as WTO Meetings Near
Global Days of Action Against the WTO
Teach-Ins educate local constituencies and gear up for action
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People have been mobilizing for the upcoming actions in the Bay Area, and students have organized a Teach-In on the WTO in White Plaza at Noon, today.<br>
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San Francisco, CA -- On November 9-10, Bay Area communities will demonstrate against PG&E and ChevronTexaco, beneficiaries of the free trade policies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other economic globalization mechanisms. These days of action coincide with the meeting of the WTO in Qatar. Two years after its defeat in Seattle, the WTO will meet in Qatar, an isolated Persian/Arabian Gulf State.<br>
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On Friday, November 9, declared an “International Day of Action against the WTO by Global Justice activists, demonstrators will gather at noon at Justin Herman Plaza (Embarcadero) in San Francisco. On November 10, at noon, demonstrators will march from Richmond BART to Chevron’s refinery.
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Bay Area Global Justice organizers are mobilizing with local communities in solidarity with communities around the world who are reasserting global resistance to the WTO. The coalition, Action for Local/Global Justice is made up of 24 Bay Area organizations that cover a range of issues from Chevron’s toxic refinery to a proposed Super Jail for youth in Alameda County.
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“ChevronTexaco is typical of the companies that benefit from economic globalization. The power ChevronTexaco has over communities from Richmond, California to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, is dependent on access to financial, military and governmental power. That very access is guaranteed by the agenda the WTO proposes,” said Gopal Dayeneni, Oil Campaign Coordinator for Project Underground, an oil industry watchdog based in Berkeley, CA.
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"The agenda for the WTO Ministerial in Qatar includes some of the most dangerous and controversial agreements in its history," said Antonia Juhasz, Project Director of the International Forum on Globalization in San Francisco. "These agreements would expand the WTO's authority even further into all aspects of our lives -- from the education our children receive, to the toxins dumped in our backyard, to our access to life saving medicines. Now more than ever, it is necessary to send a message that this organization must not move forward, but rather be moved back."
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A calendar for these events is available at http://www.globablizethis.org.