Call of the Hemispheric and Global Assembly against
the FTAA and the WTO

Mexico City, May 11-12, 2003

We, the participants in this historic Hemispheric and
Global Assembly against the Free Trade of the Americas
and the World Trade Organization, held in Mexico City
on May 11-12, 2003, declare our intention and
commitment to derail the Fifth Ministerial of the
World Trade Organization that will take place in
Cancun in September of this year.The WTO Ministerial will take place in the context of
escalating US military aggression against the peoples
and nations of the world. Washington's invasion and
occupation of Iraq is simply the latest and most
outrageous case of the Bush administration's
unrestrained unilateralist foreign policy.

The WTO is war by other means. The WTO represents the
most ambitious effort to resubjugate the economies of
the countries of the South to serve the interests of
transnational corporations. The neoliberal,
free-trade paradigm incarnated in the WTO subverts the
interests of people both in the South and the North.
Its legacy is greater poverty, inequity, gender
inequality, and indebtedness throughout the world. It
has also accelerated the destruction of the global
environment.

Today, the WTO, along with the other mechanisms of
corporate control, notably the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, are suffering an
historic crisis of credibility and legitimacy.

Against the massive misery they offer, global civil
society is coming together to forge creative
alternatives to bring about a truly just global order.

Against a future of war, injustice, and permanent
crisis offered by the US, European Union, and the
institutions of corporate rule, global civil society
offers a future of justice, peace, and solidarity.

But even as the WTO institutionalizes stagnation,
injustice, and poverty, Washington is busy attempting
to forge more corporate chains to subjugate the South
by intimidating the governments of Latin America to
sign on to the Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA).

Enough. We say eight years of the WTO is enough. We
say the last thing Latin America needs is the FTAA.

We declare, instead, that another world is possible;
and inspired by this vision, we call on as many people
as possible from throughout the world to come and join
us in Cancun in the week-long Forum of the People for
Alternatives to the WTO on Sept. 9-14, 2003.

We also call on people and movements in all countries
to launch massive united and coordinated
demonstrations on Sept. 9, the Day of International
Protest against the WTO, and on Sept. 14, the Day of
Global Protest against Globalization and War.
United, the vast majority of this planet say:

NO TO WAR

END THE TYRANNY OF FREE TRADE AND THE WTO

NO TO THE FTAA

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE