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Cancun Calender of Events
September 1, 2003 - 3:17am -- polo
polo submits:
Cancún Calendar of Events
WTO Alternative Forums/ OMC Foros Alternativos
Draft Calendar of Events, August 31, 2003
please send corrections, edits or additions to: Lisa Hoyos at: lhoyos@citizen.org
Note: Please put “matrix edit” in the subject line
Continual Radio Coverage of Cancun movement events and WTO negoations: Real World Radio (see info at bottom of calendar)
www.radiomundoreal.fm in Spanish and Portuguese
www.realworldradio.fm in English
Pre-events (events taking place before September 7th)
(Sept. 1-5) EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
1-7 Sept Media Convergence Training Margaritas 10
5 Sept Foro Global de Bioversidad
Who: Greenpeace and others To be determined
Sunday/ Domingo, 7 September/ Septiembre
TIME/TIEMPO EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
9:30 –6:00 PM Fishers Forum/ Foro de Pescadores
Who: World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers/Foro Mundial de Pescadores y Trabajadores de La Pesca
What: Situation of artisanal fisheries, fish workers and communities relative to WTO Sala Cabildo, de Isla Mujeres)
2 PM- 4 PM Voices from the South/ Voces del Sur
Who COPA/KCTFU (Korea)
Ex-Palenque
4 PM- 8 PM “Update on the social movements situation from Port Alegre to Cancun”
Who Social Movement’s Network Contact Group. , with participation from Via Campesina, Walden Bello, Raffaela Bolini and others.
Casa de la Cultura
6 PM –8 PM Closing of the Convergence of Alternative and Popular Media/ Clausura de la Convergencia de Medios Alternativos y Populares
Who Indymedia
Palapas
Monday/ Lunes, 8 September/ Septiembre
TIME/TIEMPO EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
All day/
todo el dia Installation of the Student Encampment/ Instalacion del Campamento de Jovernes
Who Jovenes en Resistencia Alternativa
Encampment Zone/ Zona de Campamento (Supermanzana 21)
9 AM- 5 PM Parliamentary Forum/Foro Parliamentario
Who: Parlamentarians
Hotel Fiesta Americana Condesa
10 AM- 10 PM Int’l Farmers and Indigenous Peoples Forum / Foro Int’l Campesinos e Indigena Who: Via Campesina/UNORCA
What: Plenary meeting of farmer organizations and their friends regarding the agricultural agreement of the WTO, followed by parallel working groups on agricultural topics. Una pleneria del organizations campesinos (UNORCA y Via Campesino) y sus amigo sobre El Acuerdo de Agricultura en el OMC, y seguido con 10 mesas de trabajo temas agriculturas. Gimnasio y Casa de Cultura
10 AM-2 PM “Coordinating a Common Agenda from Cancún to Miami”
Who: Social Movement’s Network Contact Group
SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union) or Ex Palenque
10- 6 PM Internacional Women’s Forum/ Foro Internacional de las Mujeres
Who: International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN)
Plaza Caribe Best Western
AM (TBD) Forum for Peace/ Foro por La Paz
Who: Red de la Sociedad Civil
Carpa 5
4 PM- 8 PM “Anti-war Activists Meeting”
Who: Social Movement’s Network Contact Group (includes Jakarta Peace Consensus Netowork, Continental Campaign Against Militarization)
SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union)
.
6 PM- 10 PM Delegates Assembly/ Asamblea de Delegado/as
Who Espacio Mexicano
What Meeting to coordinate activities in Cancún. Various movement groups will meet to coordinate SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union)
7 PM- 11 PM Cultural Events
Las Palapas
Tuesday/ Martes, 9 September/ Septiembre
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
All Day Fair Trade Fair/ Feria de Comercia Justo
Who: IATP Coral Negra Hotel
All Day/Todo el Dia Installation of Student Encampment/ Evento de Estudiantes Instalacion de Campamento “Caravana Libertaria”
Who: Caravana Libertaria Carlo Giuliani TBD
8 AM- 10 PM Int’l Farmers and Indigenous Peoples Forum/ Foro Int’l Campesinos e Indigena
Who Via Campesino/ UNCORCA
What: Working groups on trangenics, subsidies, Farm Bill, NAFTA, FTAA, PPP, and the impact of new technologies on small agriculture. Mesas sobre temas como: transgénicos, subsidios/ Farm Bill/ Reforma de la PAC, TLC - ALCA – PPP, impactos de nuevas tecnologías en la pequeña agricultura. Gimnasio, Casa de La Cultura
10 AM-1 PM “Green Biotech? Capable of Feeding the World?”
Who: FES Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10:30 AM – 8 PM Teach-in on the WTO/ Foro Sobre el OMC
Who International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Teatro Cancun (Hotel zone)
10- 6:00 PM International Women’s Forum/ Foro Internacional de las Mujeres
Who International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN)/ Rede Mujeres Plaza Caribe Best Western
9:30-1:30 Global Unions Conference: “Making Globalisation Work for People”
Who International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU) To be determined
10 AM- 4 PM Forum on the Information Society Foro Sobre La Sociedad de Informacion/
Who: CENCOS tbd
8:00 AM-9:45 AM “Key Issues and Challenges for the Cancun Ministerial”
Who Third World Network, Martin Khor, Tetteh Hormeku
Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
9:00 AM-12:00 PM “Agriculture, Trade and New Technologies” Panel and Workshop—Farmer’s Forum
Who: Public Citizen, ETC Group, Food First, NFFC Gimnasio Cuxil Baxall
10 AM- 12 PM Continental Campaign Against the FTAA/ Campana Continental vs ALCA
Who ASC/Coordinadora Campana Contra el Alca SNTSS (social security union hall)
12:00 3:00 PM Biopiracy and Patents Panel and Workshp—Farmers’ Forum Event
Who: ETC Group Gimnasio Cuxil Baxaal
Food Talks/ La Comida Habla
CCC Restaurant Maria Bonita
7 PM- 12 PM Opening: the People’s & Farmers Forum/ APERTURA:Foro de Los Pueblos y Campesinos/
Bienvenidos Cancun
Welcoming political and cultural event Plaza de La Reforma
7 PM- 11 PM Cultural Events/ Eventos Culturales
Bienvenida Cancun Parque de las Palapas
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus Margaritas Hotel (30)
Need update on time Corporate Spoof Awards/ Parodia de Premios Para Corporaciones
Who: Polaris Institute, FOEI others Teatro Cancun (Hotel Zone)
Wednesday/ Miercoles, 10 September/ Septiembre
****Marcha de los Campesinos/ Farmers’ March (Ciudad de Cancun)
Time to be determined
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
Todo el Dia/All Day Fair Trade Fair/ Feria Comercial
Who: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Coral Negro
10 AM-8:30 PM “Trade and Environment/Trade in Services” (day one, three-day conference)
Who: Heinrich Boll Foundation Plaza Caribe Hotel
Solidarity Meeting on Cuba/ Mesa de Solidaridad con Cuba tbd
Sustainable Trade Symposium/ Simposium Sobre Comercio
10 AM- 12 PM Agriculture Central Panel (time may change)/
Who: Via Campesina Gimasio
10 AM- 6 PM Forestry Forum/ Foro Forestal
Who: Pacific Environment, others (please inform) Calinda America Hotel
10 AM- 6 PM International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical tbd
11 AM- 2 PM
(tentative) “Debating Impacts of WTO Negotiations on Consumers”
Who: Consumers International Hotel Margaritas (200)
10 AM- 6 PM
“Business Rules: Corporate Power, Agriculture and Biodiversity”
Who: FOEI, PC Hotel Margaritas (70)
2 PM- 5 PM Seminar on WTO Trade Negotiations Positions
IGTN Hotel Margaritas (200)
3-6 PM “WTO and Investment”
Who: FES (with speakers from social movements, UNCTAD, WTO) Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
Thursday/ Jueves, 11 September/ Septiembre
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
All day Fair Trade Fair/ Feria Comercial
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Coral Negro
tbd Solidarity Meeting on Cuba/ Mesa de Solidaridad con Cuba tbd
All day Sustainable Trade Symposium/ Simposium Sobre Comercio
9:00 AM-1:00 PM
SIGTUR Forum: Voices from the South and Toward Real Solidarity Between North and South
Who: SIGTUR (Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights) To be determined
9:30-6:30 “Resisting the WTO-grab for Water” (day 2 of three-day conference)
Who: Heinrich Boll Foundation Plaza Caribe Hotel
10 AM- 1 PM Central Panel of People’s Forum: Report on the WTO Negotiations
AND Panel on Militarization and Globalization
Who: Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS, Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, Bienvenidos a Cancun Ex-Palenque
10 AM- 3 PM Meeting Between Farmers and Trade Unionists/ Encuentro Campesinos Sindical
Gimnasio Cuxil Baxaal
10 AM-1 PM “The Doha Development Round: Everything for the Corporations?...”
Who: FES (Sprkr include: Social movements ICFTU) Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10 AM- 6 PM Indigenous Peoples’ Forum/ Foro Indigena
COCEI, Movimiento Por La Paz, Foro Maya Peninsular, ANIPA, 500 Pueblos tbd
10 AM- 6 PM International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical tbd
10 AM- 1 PM Panel on Agriculture/ Penel Sobre Agricultura
Espacio Mexicano tbd
10 AM- 6 PM Zapatismo and Resistance/ Zapatismo y Resistencia
Juventud en Resistencia Casa de La Cultura
10 AM- 1 PM Corn, Biotechnology and Trade/ Maiz, Biotecnologia, y Comercio/ Hotel Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach conference room
2-4 PM “Agriculture, Trade and New Technologies” Part of Farmers’ Forum
Who: ETC. Group, FOEI, Public Citizen, Council of Canadians, Hungarian Coop for Organic Farming Casa de la Cultura
2 - 4 PM Agriculture Panel and Discussion
Who: IATP and PC Hotel Margaritas (30)
2 - 4 PM Fair Trade Workshop
Who: Int’l South Group Network Hotel Margaritas (70)
2 PM- 5 PM “Militarization, Globalization and Resistance”
Seminario Sobre Militarizacion y el OMC
Who: Polaris y Focus on the Global South Hotel Margaritas (200)
3-6 PM “GATS-Mode 4”
Who: FES (speakers include parliamentarians) Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
4-6 PM “Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Local Communities”
Who: CIEL Hotel Margaritas
5-8 PM TNC’s, Corruption and the WTO
Who: IBON, Asia Pacific Research Network Hotel Margaritas (200)
5:15-6:45 PM “The Singapore Issues: What’s At Stake”
Who: Third World Network, Yao Grahm, Cecilia Oh, Tetteh Hormeku Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
6-8 PM CAFTA Workshop
Who: Friends of the Earth Margaritas Hotel
6 - 10 PM New Trends in Technology/ Nuevas Tendencias en Technologia
Who: ETC, IFG Casa de la Cultura
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
8-10 PM “Views from Africa: Globalization and Recolonization”
Who: AIDC and African Trade Network Margaritas Hotel (70)
Friday/ Viernes , 12 September/ Septiembre
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
All Day Fair Trade Fair/ Feria Comercial
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Coral Negro
Solidarity Meeting on Cuba/ Mesa de Solidaridad con Cuba
All Day Women’s Seminar on Globalization/ Seminar de Mujeres Sobre Globalizacion
All Day Fair Trade Strategy of the Americas Forum/ Foro Sobre Estrategia de Comercio Justo de Las Americas/
Sustainable Trade Symposium/ Simposium Sobre Comercio SUSTAIN/ La Casa Maya
10 AM-1 PM “A Gender Agenda for the WTO:
Who: FES Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10:30-8:30 “Cultural Diversity, TRIPS, Ag and Sovereignty” (day 3 of three-day conference)
Who: Heinrich Boll Foundation Plaza Caribe Hotel
10 AM- 1 PM Central Panel of People’s Forum: Report on the WTO Negotiations
AND Panel on Privatization of Services
Who: Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS, Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, Bienvenidos a Cancún Ex-Palenque
10:30-8:30 “Cultural Diversity, TRIPS, Ag and Sovereignty” (day 3 of three-day conference)
Who: Heinrich Boll Foundation Plaza Caribe Hotel
10 AM- 6PM International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical
1 -2 PM Services and Investment Workshop
Who: Council of Canadians Hotel Margaritas (200)
2-4 PM “GATS Information Exchange”
Who: CIEL, World Development Movement
Hotel Margaritas (70)
2-4 PM “Whatever Happened to the Development Agenda?”
Who: Third World Network Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
2-5 PM “Seminar on Bilaterals and FTA’s”
Who: Our World is Not for Sale Hotel Margaritas (200)
3-6 PM “Peasant Farmers, Small Scale Farmers and Market Access”
Who: FES (speakers include National Farmers’ Union in Zambia) Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
4-6 PM Business Rules: Corporate Power, Foreign Investment, and GATS
FOEI, PC, Polaris Hotel Margaritas (70)
5-8 PM “GATS Water Tribunal”
Who: Polaris Institute Hotel Margaritas (200)
6-9 PM Views from Africa: Defending Our Services and Rights
Who: AIDC, African Trade Network Hotel Margaritas (70)
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
8-10 PM Venezuela: the Situation Facing the WTO and the FTAA/ La Situacion Frente La OMC y ALCA
Who: Global Exchange Hotel Margaritas (200)
Saturday/ Sabado , 13 September/ Septiembre
The Big March against Corporate Driven Globalization and Militarization/ La Marcha Grande..time to be determined
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
time to be determined *****MARCH!!!!!!!!
9- 9:30 AM Agricultural Briefing/ Briefing Agricultura
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Hotel Margaritas
10 AM-1 PM “Environmental Consequences of Service Liberalization”
Who: FES Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10 AM- 6PM International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical
Union Nacional de Trabajadores (UNT), Frente Sindical Mexicano (FSM) Teatro Cancun
10 AM-12 PM “Business Rules? Corporations and the Environment”
Who: FOEI, Polaris, Public Citizen. Hotel Margaritas
10 AM- 1 PM GATS Speak-Out: Water Struggles and Victories
Who: Polaris Institute Hotel Margaritas (200)
1 PM- 3 PM Workshop on FTAA and Investment/ Tallera Sobre ALCA y Inversion
Who: FOE Hotel Margaritas (200)
2 PM- 4 PM “Bite Back Bush: Stop GMO Force Feeding by the WTO”
Who: CIEL, FOEI, Public Citizen Hotel Margaritas (70)
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
Sunday/ Domingo , 14 September/ Septiembre
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
8 AM
–6 PM Forum on Trade Agreements and Democratic Alternatives/
Foro sobre “Acuerdos de Comercio y Alternativas Democráticas”
Red SEPA Hotel Raddison
Maquiladoras Forum/ Foro de Las Maquiladoras
Coalicion para Justicia en Las Maquiladoras (CJM) Casa de La Cultura
Agriculture Briefing/ Briefing Agricultura
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Hotel Margaritas
10:15 AM-
1:15 PM The Cancun Outcome: Prospects and Problems
Who: Third World Network Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10:00 AM-1:00 PM Central Panel of People’s Forum: Report on the WTO Negotiations
AND Panel on the Environment and Natural Resources
Who: Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS, Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, Bienvenidos a Cancún Ex-Palenque
2- 4 PM Subsidies for the Fishing Industry/ Subsidios para La Industria Pesquera
CIEL/OWINFS Hotel Margaritas (30)
2 - 5 PM Trade and Debt/ Comercio y Deuda
Jubilee South, AIDC, ATN HHotel Margaritas (70)
2 - 5 PM “The Road from Cancun to Miami” Seminar/ Plenaria Sobre el Camino de Cancun Hasta Miami
Who: OWINFS, Continental Campaign Against ALCA, HSA, CTC, Hotel Margaritas (200)
4 -6 PM Implications of Nanotechnology
Who: ETC Group and Heinrich Boell Foundation
Boell Forum venue
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
5 PM- 11 PM Closing of the People’s and Farmer’s Forum/
Clausura del Foro de los Pueblos y Foro Campesinos
Bienvenida Cancun, Espacio Mexicana
Closing cultural and political event. Ex-Palenque
Contact Information for Organizations
ALPHABETICAL ORDER, IF YOU WISH TO BE ADDED, CONTACT: lhoyos@citizen.org
Bienvenida Cancun www.bienvenidacancun.org
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU), Mike.waghorne@world-psi.org
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU), Mike.waghorne@world-psi.org
International Gender and Trade Network …Alexandra Spieldoch aspieldoch@coc.org
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) www.iatp.org
Espacio Mexicano www.omcmexico.org/forodelospueblos
UNORCA omcfueradeagricultura@unorca.org.mx
Via Campesina web: forocampasino@laneta.org
www.radiomundoreal.fm in Spanish and Portugese
www.realworldradio.fm in English
real world radio is an iniciative that combines the use of the radio and the new tools provided by internet, to make possible the comunication between the diverse individuals, groups and social organizations trying to break the informative wall imposed by the official media about the dealing of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
real world radio is a common iniciative of Friends of the Earth (FoEI) with World Communitarian Radios Association (AMARC), which objective is to show the impacts the “commercial liberalization” had in our countries, and, at the same time, to inform about some of the thousands of ways that´s been offered to the local communities to resist the transnational corporations ambitions.."
polo submits:
Cancún Calendar of Events
WTO Alternative Forums/ OMC Foros Alternativos
Draft Calendar of Events, August 31, 2003
please send corrections, edits or additions to: Lisa Hoyos at: lhoyos@citizen.org
Note: Please put “matrix edit” in the subject line
Continual Radio Coverage of Cancun movement events and WTO negoations: Real World Radio (see info at bottom of calendar)
www.radiomundoreal.fm in Spanish and Portuguese
www.realworldradio.fm in English
Pre-events (events taking place before September 7th)
(Sept. 1-5) EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
1-7 Sept Media Convergence Training Margaritas 10
5 Sept Foro Global de Bioversidad
Who: Greenpeace and others To be determined
Sunday/ Domingo, 7 September/ Septiembre
TIME/TIEMPO EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
9:30 –6:00 PM Fishers Forum/ Foro de Pescadores
Who: World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers/Foro Mundial de Pescadores y Trabajadores de La Pesca
What: Situation of artisanal fisheries, fish workers and communities relative to WTO Sala Cabildo, de Isla Mujeres)
2 PM- 4 PM Voices from the South/ Voces del Sur
Who COPA/KCTFU (Korea)
Ex-Palenque
4 PM- 8 PM “Update on the social movements situation from Port Alegre to Cancun”
Who Social Movement’s Network Contact Group. , with participation from Via Campesina, Walden Bello, Raffaela Bolini and others.
Casa de la Cultura
6 PM –8 PM Closing of the Convergence of Alternative and Popular Media/ Clausura de la Convergencia de Medios Alternativos y Populares
Who Indymedia
Palapas
Monday/ Lunes, 8 September/ Septiembre
TIME/TIEMPO EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
All day/
todo el dia Installation of the Student Encampment/ Instalacion del Campamento de Jovernes
Who Jovenes en Resistencia Alternativa
Encampment Zone/ Zona de Campamento (Supermanzana 21)
9 AM- 5 PM Parliamentary Forum/Foro Parliamentario
Who: Parlamentarians
Hotel Fiesta Americana Condesa
10 AM- 10 PM Int’l Farmers and Indigenous Peoples Forum / Foro Int’l Campesinos e Indigena Who: Via Campesina/UNORCA
What: Plenary meeting of farmer organizations and their friends regarding the agricultural agreement of the WTO, followed by parallel working groups on agricultural topics. Una pleneria del organizations campesinos (UNORCA y Via Campesino) y sus amigo sobre El Acuerdo de Agricultura en el OMC, y seguido con 10 mesas de trabajo temas agriculturas. Gimnasio y Casa de Cultura
10 AM-2 PM “Coordinating a Common Agenda from Cancún to Miami”
Who: Social Movement’s Network Contact Group
SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union) or Ex Palenque
10- 6 PM Internacional Women’s Forum/ Foro Internacional de las Mujeres
Who: International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN)
Plaza Caribe Best Western
AM (TBD) Forum for Peace/ Foro por La Paz
Who: Red de la Sociedad Civil
Carpa 5
4 PM- 8 PM “Anti-war Activists Meeting”
Who: Social Movement’s Network Contact Group (includes Jakarta Peace Consensus Netowork, Continental Campaign Against Militarization)
SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union)
.
6 PM- 10 PM Delegates Assembly/ Asamblea de Delegado/as
Who Espacio Mexicano
What Meeting to coordinate activities in Cancún. Various movement groups will meet to coordinate SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union)
7 PM- 11 PM Cultural Events
Las Palapas
Tuesday/ Martes, 9 September/ Septiembre
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
All Day Fair Trade Fair/ Feria de Comercia Justo
Who: IATP Coral Negra Hotel
All Day/Todo el Dia Installation of Student Encampment/ Evento de Estudiantes Instalacion de Campamento “Caravana Libertaria”
Who: Caravana Libertaria Carlo Giuliani TBD
8 AM- 10 PM Int’l Farmers and Indigenous Peoples Forum/ Foro Int’l Campesinos e Indigena
Who Via Campesino/ UNCORCA
What: Working groups on trangenics, subsidies, Farm Bill, NAFTA, FTAA, PPP, and the impact of new technologies on small agriculture. Mesas sobre temas como: transgénicos, subsidios/ Farm Bill/ Reforma de la PAC, TLC - ALCA – PPP, impactos de nuevas tecnologías en la pequeña agricultura. Gimnasio, Casa de La Cultura
10 AM-1 PM “Green Biotech? Capable of Feeding the World?”
Who: FES Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10:30 AM – 8 PM Teach-in on the WTO/ Foro Sobre el OMC
Who International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Teatro Cancun (Hotel zone)
10- 6:00 PM International Women’s Forum/ Foro Internacional de las Mujeres
Who International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN)/ Rede Mujeres Plaza Caribe Best Western
9:30-1:30 Global Unions Conference: “Making Globalisation Work for People”
Who International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU) To be determined
10 AM- 4 PM Forum on the Information Society Foro Sobre La Sociedad de Informacion/
Who: CENCOS tbd
8:00 AM-9:45 AM “Key Issues and Challenges for the Cancun Ministerial”
Who Third World Network, Martin Khor, Tetteh Hormeku
Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
9:00 AM-12:00 PM “Agriculture, Trade and New Technologies” Panel and Workshop—Farmer’s Forum
Who: Public Citizen, ETC Group, Food First, NFFC Gimnasio Cuxil Baxall
10 AM- 12 PM Continental Campaign Against the FTAA/ Campana Continental vs ALCA
Who ASC/Coordinadora Campana Contra el Alca SNTSS (social security union hall)
12:00 3:00 PM Biopiracy and Patents Panel and Workshp—Farmers’ Forum Event
Who: ETC Group Gimnasio Cuxil Baxaal
Food Talks/ La Comida Habla
CCC Restaurant Maria Bonita
7 PM- 12 PM Opening: the People’s & Farmers Forum/ APERTURA:Foro de Los Pueblos y Campesinos/
Bienvenidos Cancun
Welcoming political and cultural event Plaza de La Reforma
7 PM- 11 PM Cultural Events/ Eventos Culturales
Bienvenida Cancun Parque de las Palapas
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus Margaritas Hotel (30)
Need update on time Corporate Spoof Awards/ Parodia de Premios Para Corporaciones
Who: Polaris Institute, FOEI others Teatro Cancun (Hotel Zone)
Wednesday/ Miercoles, 10 September/ Septiembre
****Marcha de los Campesinos/ Farmers’ March (Ciudad de Cancun)
Time to be determined
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
Todo el Dia/All Day Fair Trade Fair/ Feria Comercial
Who: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Coral Negro
10 AM-8:30 PM “Trade and Environment/Trade in Services” (day one, three-day conference)
Who: Heinrich Boll Foundation Plaza Caribe Hotel
Solidarity Meeting on Cuba/ Mesa de Solidaridad con Cuba tbd
Sustainable Trade Symposium/ Simposium Sobre Comercio
10 AM- 12 PM Agriculture Central Panel (time may change)/
Who: Via Campesina Gimasio
10 AM- 6 PM Forestry Forum/ Foro Forestal
Who: Pacific Environment, others (please inform) Calinda America Hotel
10 AM- 6 PM International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical tbd
11 AM- 2 PM
(tentative) “Debating Impacts of WTO Negotiations on Consumers”
Who: Consumers International Hotel Margaritas (200)
10 AM- 6 PM
“Business Rules: Corporate Power, Agriculture and Biodiversity”
Who: FOEI, PC Hotel Margaritas (70)
2 PM- 5 PM Seminar on WTO Trade Negotiations Positions
IGTN Hotel Margaritas (200)
3-6 PM “WTO and Investment”
Who: FES (with speakers from social movements, UNCTAD, WTO) Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
Thursday/ Jueves, 11 September/ Septiembre
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
All day Fair Trade Fair/ Feria Comercial
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Coral Negro
tbd Solidarity Meeting on Cuba/ Mesa de Solidaridad con Cuba tbd
All day Sustainable Trade Symposium/ Simposium Sobre Comercio
9:00 AM-1:00 PM
SIGTUR Forum: Voices from the South and Toward Real Solidarity Between North and South
Who: SIGTUR (Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights) To be determined
9:30-6:30 “Resisting the WTO-grab for Water” (day 2 of three-day conference)
Who: Heinrich Boll Foundation Plaza Caribe Hotel
10 AM- 1 PM Central Panel of People’s Forum: Report on the WTO Negotiations
AND Panel on Militarization and Globalization
Who: Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS, Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, Bienvenidos a Cancun Ex-Palenque
10 AM- 3 PM Meeting Between Farmers and Trade Unionists/ Encuentro Campesinos Sindical
Gimnasio Cuxil Baxaal
10 AM-1 PM “The Doha Development Round: Everything for the Corporations?...”
Who: FES (Sprkr include: Social movements ICFTU) Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10 AM- 6 PM Indigenous Peoples’ Forum/ Foro Indigena
COCEI, Movimiento Por La Paz, Foro Maya Peninsular, ANIPA, 500 Pueblos tbd
10 AM- 6 PM International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical tbd
10 AM- 1 PM Panel on Agriculture/ Penel Sobre Agricultura
Espacio Mexicano tbd
10 AM- 6 PM Zapatismo and Resistance/ Zapatismo y Resistencia
Juventud en Resistencia Casa de La Cultura
10 AM- 1 PM Corn, Biotechnology and Trade/ Maiz, Biotecnologia, y Comercio/ Hotel Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach conference room
2-4 PM “Agriculture, Trade and New Technologies” Part of Farmers’ Forum
Who: ETC. Group, FOEI, Public Citizen, Council of Canadians, Hungarian Coop for Organic Farming Casa de la Cultura
2 - 4 PM Agriculture Panel and Discussion
Who: IATP and PC Hotel Margaritas (30)
2 - 4 PM Fair Trade Workshop
Who: Int’l South Group Network Hotel Margaritas (70)
2 PM- 5 PM “Militarization, Globalization and Resistance”
Seminario Sobre Militarizacion y el OMC
Who: Polaris y Focus on the Global South Hotel Margaritas (200)
3-6 PM “GATS-Mode 4”
Who: FES (speakers include parliamentarians) Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
4-6 PM “Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Local Communities”
Who: CIEL Hotel Margaritas
5-8 PM TNC’s, Corruption and the WTO
Who: IBON, Asia Pacific Research Network Hotel Margaritas (200)
5:15-6:45 PM “The Singapore Issues: What’s At Stake”
Who: Third World Network, Yao Grahm, Cecilia Oh, Tetteh Hormeku Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
6-8 PM CAFTA Workshop
Who: Friends of the Earth Margaritas Hotel
6 - 10 PM New Trends in Technology/ Nuevas Tendencias en Technologia
Who: ETC, IFG Casa de la Cultura
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
8-10 PM “Views from Africa: Globalization and Recolonization”
Who: AIDC and African Trade Network Margaritas Hotel (70)
Friday/ Viernes , 12 September/ Septiembre
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
All Day Fair Trade Fair/ Feria Comercial
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Coral Negro
Solidarity Meeting on Cuba/ Mesa de Solidaridad con Cuba
All Day Women’s Seminar on Globalization/ Seminar de Mujeres Sobre Globalizacion
All Day Fair Trade Strategy of the Americas Forum/ Foro Sobre Estrategia de Comercio Justo de Las Americas/
Sustainable Trade Symposium/ Simposium Sobre Comercio SUSTAIN/ La Casa Maya
10 AM-1 PM “A Gender Agenda for the WTO:
Who: FES Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10:30-8:30 “Cultural Diversity, TRIPS, Ag and Sovereignty” (day 3 of three-day conference)
Who: Heinrich Boll Foundation Plaza Caribe Hotel
10 AM- 1 PM Central Panel of People’s Forum: Report on the WTO Negotiations
AND Panel on Privatization of Services
Who: Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS, Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, Bienvenidos a Cancún Ex-Palenque
10:30-8:30 “Cultural Diversity, TRIPS, Ag and Sovereignty” (day 3 of three-day conference)
Who: Heinrich Boll Foundation Plaza Caribe Hotel
10 AM- 6PM International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical
1 -2 PM Services and Investment Workshop
Who: Council of Canadians Hotel Margaritas (200)
2-4 PM “GATS Information Exchange”
Who: CIEL, World Development Movement
Hotel Margaritas (70)
2-4 PM “Whatever Happened to the Development Agenda?”
Who: Third World Network Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
2-5 PM “Seminar on Bilaterals and FTA’s”
Who: Our World is Not for Sale Hotel Margaritas (200)
3-6 PM “Peasant Farmers, Small Scale Farmers and Market Access”
Who: FES (speakers include National Farmers’ Union in Zambia) Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
4-6 PM Business Rules: Corporate Power, Foreign Investment, and GATS
FOEI, PC, Polaris Hotel Margaritas (70)
5-8 PM “GATS Water Tribunal”
Who: Polaris Institute Hotel Margaritas (200)
6-9 PM Views from Africa: Defending Our Services and Rights
Who: AIDC, African Trade Network Hotel Margaritas (70)
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
8-10 PM Venezuela: the Situation Facing the WTO and the FTAA/ La Situacion Frente La OMC y ALCA
Who: Global Exchange Hotel Margaritas (200)
Saturday/ Sabado , 13 September/ Septiembre
The Big March against Corporate Driven Globalization and Militarization/ La Marcha Grande..time to be determined
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
time to be determined *****MARCH!!!!!!!!
9- 9:30 AM Agricultural Briefing/ Briefing Agricultura
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Hotel Margaritas
10 AM-1 PM “Environmental Consequences of Service Liberalization”
Who: FES Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10 AM- 6PM International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical
Union Nacional de Trabajadores (UNT), Frente Sindical Mexicano (FSM) Teatro Cancun
10 AM-12 PM “Business Rules? Corporations and the Environment”
Who: FOEI, Polaris, Public Citizen. Hotel Margaritas
10 AM- 1 PM GATS Speak-Out: Water Struggles and Victories
Who: Polaris Institute Hotel Margaritas (200)
1 PM- 3 PM Workshop on FTAA and Investment/ Tallera Sobre ALCA y Inversion
Who: FOE Hotel Margaritas (200)
2 PM- 4 PM “Bite Back Bush: Stop GMO Force Feeding by the WTO”
Who: CIEL, FOEI, Public Citizen Hotel Margaritas (70)
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
Sunday/ Domingo , 14 September/ Septiembre
TIME EVENT/EVENTO PLACE/LUGAR
8 AM
–6 PM Forum on Trade Agreements and Democratic Alternatives/
Foro sobre “Acuerdos de Comercio y Alternativas Democráticas”
Red SEPA Hotel Raddison
Maquiladoras Forum/ Foro de Las Maquiladoras
Coalicion para Justicia en Las Maquiladoras (CJM) Casa de La Cultura
Agriculture Briefing/ Briefing Agricultura
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Hotel Margaritas
10:15 AM-
1:15 PM The Cancun Outcome: Prospects and Problems
Who: Third World Network Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone
10:00 AM-1:00 PM Central Panel of People’s Forum: Report on the WTO Negotiations
AND Panel on the Environment and Natural Resources
Who: Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS, Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, Bienvenidos a Cancún Ex-Palenque
2- 4 PM Subsidies for the Fishing Industry/ Subsidios para La Industria Pesquera
CIEL/OWINFS Hotel Margaritas (30)
2 - 5 PM Trade and Debt/ Comercio y Deuda
Jubilee South, AIDC, ATN HHotel Margaritas (70)
2 - 5 PM “The Road from Cancun to Miami” Seminar/ Plenaria Sobre el Camino de Cancun Hasta Miami
Who: OWINFS, Continental Campaign Against ALCA, HSA, CTC, Hotel Margaritas (200)
4 -6 PM Implications of Nanotechnology
Who: ETC Group and Heinrich Boell Foundation
Boell Forum venue
7:30-9:00 PM Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others Margaritas Hotel (30)
5 PM- 11 PM Closing of the People’s and Farmer’s Forum/
Clausura del Foro de los Pueblos y Foro Campesinos
Bienvenida Cancun, Espacio Mexicana
Closing cultural and political event. Ex-Palenque
Contact Information for Organizations
ALPHABETICAL ORDER, IF YOU WISH TO BE ADDED, CONTACT: lhoyos@citizen.org
Bienvenida Cancun www.bienvenidacancun.org
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU), Mike.waghorne@world-psi.org
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU), Mike.waghorne@world-psi.org
International Gender and Trade Network …Alexandra Spieldoch aspieldoch@coc.org
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) www.iatp.org
Espacio Mexicano www.omcmexico.org/forodelospueblos
UNORCA omcfueradeagricultura@unorca.org.mx
Via Campesina web: forocampasino@laneta.org
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