Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:40:51 -0500
From: RS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPEN WORLD CONFERENCE
By far the majority of international trade is conducted to satisfy an
insaitiable world wide monetary systems.
Immense quantities of resources (and jobs) are engaged in to satisfy
international balance of payments deficits.
These are defiocits that cannot be discharged, as evidenced by the
impossible international debts of those countries whos debt is slated for
cancellation through the Jubliee 2000 initiative.
The fact remains that their debt will not be discharged, only reduced to
the extent that will continue the export of their natural resources.
The process is not dissimilar to the operation of "company towns" the only
difference is that we now have "company countries" of which Peru is a prime
example.
The saga continures: beads for land, (and resources) and jobs for the....
winners (?)
Regards
Edward Goertzen
Oshawa ON,CA
========Original post follows=============
> This article appears in the November issue of the Dispatcher, newspaper
> of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union
>
> OPEN WORLD CONFERENCE OF WORKERS TO BE HELD IN SAN FRANCISCO
> >From across the United States and around the world trade union leaders
> and activists will gather in San Francisco, Feb 11-14, 2000 to discuss
> how to work together to combat the global corporate "free trade" aganda
> and defend their hard-fought for gains. Sponsored by the San Francisco
> Labor Council, AFL-CIO and endorsed by unions in 74 countries including
> the ILWU and Teamsters Joint Council 7, the Open World Conference of
> Workers in Defence of Trade Union Independence and Democratic Rights is
> a pivotal next step after protests in Seattle against the WTO.
> Baldemar Velasquez, President of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and
> co-chair of the Labor Party is a member of the OWC Organizing
> Committee. Velasquez stressed, " Corporatre owners are determined to
> undermine and eliminate unions as independent organizations acting to
> defend workers' interests. Besides their direct attacks on workers.
> their schemes of 'roundtable agreements' and 'social pacts' are ploys to
> make trade unions responsible for carrying out layoffs, downsizing,
> elimination of benefits,part-time work and an end to job security."
> The objective of the conference is to develop specific campaigns to
> reinforce our rights to organize and link struggles internationally.
> For more info contact Mya Shone and Ed Rosario, OWC conference
> coordinators at (415) 641 8616 or at www.owc@igc
>
