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Laborfest: 10 Years since Battle of Seattle & What is To Be Done
Date:
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Time:
10:00 AM
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1:00 PM
Event Type:
Teach-In
Organizer/Author:
Location Details:
ILWU Local 6 Hall, 255 9th St., San Francisco (Civic Center BART, Buses 12, 19, 27, 47)
Ten Years After the World Trade Organization (WTO), The North American Free Trade Zones
Speakers will include economist Richard Vogel who will present his document The North American Free Trade Zones (FTZs): US and Canadian Workers Need Not apply--Independent Trade Unions Keep Out!, labor historian and environmentalist Larry Shoup, Artist and activist David Solnit and other participants of WTO battle in Seattle. This is a free event.
It has been ten years since the “Battle In Seattle” when tens of thousands of trade unionists, community activists and environmentalists joined together on the streets to protest and shut down the WTO conference. This meeting will commemorate that event with reports, speakers and a video "Labor Battles The WTO."
See also:
http://www.combatingglobalization.com/
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/vogel140406.html
http://www.berkeleygreens.org/community/larry-shoup.html
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1975
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2850
http://www.alternet.org/authors/6234
http://www.justicedesign.com/book_globalize_liberation.html
http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/657/113/
http://archive.ilwu.org/0200/whatsay200.htm
http://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm
Speakers will include economist Richard Vogel who will present his document The North American Free Trade Zones (FTZs): US and Canadian Workers Need Not apply--Independent Trade Unions Keep Out!, labor historian and environmentalist Larry Shoup, Artist and activist David Solnit and other participants of WTO battle in Seattle. This is a free event.
It has been ten years since the “Battle In Seattle” when tens of thousands of trade unionists, community activists and environmentalists joined together on the streets to protest and shut down the WTO conference. This meeting will commemorate that event with reports, speakers and a video "Labor Battles The WTO."
See also:
http://www.combatingglobalization.com/
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/vogel140406.html
http://www.berkeleygreens.org/community/larry-shoup.html
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1975
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2850
http://www.alternet.org/authors/6234
http://www.justicedesign.com/book_globalize_liberation.html
http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/657/113/
http://archive.ilwu.org/0200/whatsay200.htm
http://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm
For more information:
http://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm
Added to the calendar on Sat, Jun 20, 2009 9:30AM
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