ricardo dominguez writes:

Mexican Security Assembles Cancun WTO "Watch List"

Sixty international activists (see the US list below) were named recently by Mexico's national security apparatus as "globalophobic leaders" in a not-so-secret document leaked to La Reforma newspaper. Mexico's Federal

Preventative Police, the Army and several other security forces are apparently concerned about our participation in alternative conferences and demonstrations in Cancun during the September 10-14 WTO Ministerial.

While it is a dubious honor that our work has been recognized, we are concerned that millions of people throughout the world who are also opposed to the WTO are NOT named on the "watch list." Do you feel left out? If so, send a message to the Mexican Embassy or Consulate in your

area. We take the liberty of suggesting the following language.



(You can also email your name to msn@mexicosolidarity.org and we'll add

you to a collective sign-on letter.)

Dear Government Agents Bent on Restricting Civil Liberties,



I recently found out about the "watch list" prepared by Mexican

authorities, purportedly to quell the voice of civil society at the

upcoming WTO Ministerial in Cancun.


    Despite hefty expenditures of tax money on intelligence gathering (both

Mexican pesos and US dollars, some of which, we are confident, find their

way to Mexico's security forces!), we are concerned that you were only

able to find 60 internationals and 20 Mexicans who are opposed to the

World Trade Organization. Haven't you noticed that the tide of public

opinion is turning decidedly against the WTO? Don't you remember the WTO

Ministerial in Seattle, when over 50,000 workers, students and

environmentalists brought the meeting to a halt?



Please add my name to your "watch list" immediately!! Nothing less is

acceptable in a true democracy.



Or perhaps that's the point. After all, the WTO is one of the least

democratic organizations in the world. Corporate members of America's

Business Forum write the trade rules, while security forces spend our tax

money keeping people like myself as far from the process as possible.



If you are unwilling to add my name to the list, then I must insist that

you remove those singled out for special attention. I can assure you that

we have similar views - we are all opposed to the WTO and a "free" trade

agenda that impoverish the majority of us while enriching a few

corporations. And I can also assure you that repressive measures directed

against these few will have little impact in Cancun. Thousands of us will

be in Cancun, representing millions around the world. Our collective

voices will say NO to the WTO. A better world is possible.



PS: Perhaps the funds that were used so ineffectively for intelligence

gathering could be mobilized instead so that the Mexican government can

comply with its commitments in the National Agreement on the Rural Crisis,

signed recently by El Campo No Aguanta Mas and the Fox administration.

Since WTO policies helped cause the rural crisis in the first place, it

would only be just. We would be happy to see the portion provided by US

security forces spent on programs for campesino corn producers.



But check with the corn producers first -- they might not want "dirty"

money.



Sincerely,

Su nombre aqui

Mexico's "watch list" includes (In Spanish):



'Moderados'



Barbara Stocking

- Directora de Oxfam Gran Bretaña

- Integrante de la Junta de Directores del Humanitarian Accountability

Project

- Ex funcionaria de la Organización Mundial de la Salud

- Ex directiva del Servicio Nacional de Salud del Reino Unido



Osvaldo Martínez

- 59 años

- Economista

- Ex Ministro de Economía y Planificación de Cuba y ex representante de ese

país ante el Consejo Económico y Social de Naciones Unidas.

- Presidente de la Comisión Permanente de Asuntos Económicos de la Asamblea

Nacional de Cuba.

- Director del Centro de Investigación de la Economía Mundial



Ralph Nader

- 69 años

- Graduado en Leyes en Harvard.

- En 1965 publicó el best seller "Inseguridad a cualquier velocidad:

Peligros en el diseño de los automóviles americanos".

En 1971 fundó Public Citizen, una de las organizaciones de consumidores más

influyentes de EU.



Stanley Gacek

- Abogado laboral.

- Director asistente de Asuntos Internacionales de la AFL-CIO, la central

sindical más importante de Estados Unidos. Responsable de las relaciones con

América Latina.

- Amigo de Lula da Silva desde hace 30 años.



Noam Chomsky

- 75 años

- Profesor de Lingüística en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts

(MIT). Opositor a la guerra de Vietnam y crítico de la política exterior de

Estados Unidos desde mediados de los 60, es considerado una de los

intelectuales progresistas más influyentes de EU.


'Ultras'



Blanca Chancoso

- 48 años

- Maestra

- Dirigente de la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador y

del movimiento Pachakutik.

- Jugo un papel clave en la alianza que derrocó al Presidente Jamil Mahuad

en el 2000.



David Albertsen

- Integrante de Global Roots, organización promotora de la desobediencia

civil y que participó activamente en las protestas durante la Cumbre de la

Unión Europea en Copenhague, el año pasado.



Federico Mariani

- 41 años

- Líder de la Asociación Ya Basta. Encabezó al grupo de "monos blancos" que

se hicieron cargo de la seguridad de la Comandancia del EZLN durante su

marcha a la Ciudad de México


De cuatro continentes

La lista de "globalifóbicos" a los que dan seguimiento las autoridades

mexicanas incluye a estadounidenses, canadienses, latinoamericanos,

europeos, africanos y asiáticos.



Estados Unidos

Lori Wallach

- Director de Global Trade Watch



Víctor Menotti

-Director del Programa Ambiental del Foro Internacional sobre Globalización



Peter Rosset

- Director de Food First



John Sellers

- Director de The Ruckus Society



Howard Camson

- The Ruckus Society



John Kinsman

- Presidente de Family Farm Defenders



Michael Hart

- Profesor de la Universidad de Duke



Peter Larsen

Hazie Stenders

Lynn Mare

Thomas Hansen



Canadá



Maude Barlow

- Presidenta del Consejo de los Canadienses



Diane Matte

- Dirigente de la Federación de Mujeres de Quebéc.



Naomi Klein

- Periodista, autora del libro No Logo.



Honduras



Rafael Alegría

- Diputado y líder campesino. Secretario de Operaciones Internacionales de

Vía Campesina



Brasil



Salvador Cabral



Rafael Fresne

- Miembros de la Central Unica de Trabajadores (CUT)



Chile



Alicia Muñoz

- Presidenta de la Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Rurales e Indígenas

(Anamuri)



Italia



Tiziana Valpiana

- Diputada. Visitó Chiapas en el 2000 con una delegación de parlamentarios.



Toni Negri

-Filósofo. Bajo arresto en Italia, tras 14 años de exilio en Francia.



Gianluigi Fulvio



Francia



Ignacio Ramonet

- Presidente de Le Monde Diplomatique



Bernard Cassen

- Director general de Le Monde Diplomatique, cofundador de ATTAC



Christophe Agillon

- Miembro de ATTAC



Viviane Forrester

- Novelista.



Helen Rences


España



Carlos Taibo

-Profesor de Ciencia Política en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.



Rodolfo Izal Elorz

- Ex párroco en Chiapas.



Iñaki García Koch

- Ecologista vasco.



Paul Nicholson

- Dirigente de EHNE, una confederación de organizaciones de agricultores.



Alemania



Silke Helfrich

-Directora Regional para Centroamérica, Cuba y México de la Fundación

Heinrich Böll



Dinamarca



Thomas Jansen



Malasia



Martin Khor

-Director de la Red del Tercer Mundo



India



Vandana Shiva

- Directora de la Fundación de Investigación sobre Políticas de Recursos

Naturales, Ciencia y Tecnología.



Filipinas



Walden Bello

-Director de Focus on the Global South.



Sudáfrica



Mohau Pheko

-Directora en Africa de la Red Internacional de Género y Comercio



Teron Wanek



Aminta Aranae



Senegal



Muthoni Muriu


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