Take It Personally
Teach-In On the
World Trade Organization #1
wtv #159- (27.30 mins)
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Take It Personally
Teach-In on the World Trade Organization #1
Confronting Globalization . . . Demanding Democracy
with keynote speaker Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians
working TV #159
first broadcast November 19 1999,
RT: 27.30 minutes
Week 2 of 6 weeks of Special Programming on Globalization, Global Capital & the World Trade Organization
Opening Forum of
Take It Personally!
Teach-In On the
World Trade Organization,
November 12 and 13 1999 in Vancouver.Take It Personally! A Teach-In On the World Trade Organization was organized by the Common Front on the WTO (CF-WTO), a network of Canadian labour, environmental and public interest organizations. The CF-WTO was organized prior to the first Minsterial Meeting of the WTO in Singapore, in December 1996. Since that time, it has sponsored or supported a variety of education and action events on international trade issues, including the campaign against the MAI, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment. Activists from several countries and continents are converging on Seattle, Washington for a massive anti-WTO demonstration on November 30 1999 - concurrent with the WTO's Millenium Round of Ministerial Meetings which will take place in Seattle that same day. Multi-Billionaire Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is chair of the "official" welcoming committee.
Nearly 600 people crammed into the Robson Square Conference Centre in Vancouver for
Take It Personally:
A Teach-In On the
World Trade Organization
Take It Personally was the biggest and best organized of several pre-November 30 WTO events and conferences. More than 600 people crammed into the Robson Square Media Centre to hear speakers such as Maude Barlow from the Council of Canadians, Chee Yoke Ling from the Third World Network and Hassan Yussuff from the Canadian Labour Congress. This week, in the first of several programs taped at this event we feature opening remarks from Tony Clarke, acting chair of the CF-WTO, and a "call to arms" from Maude Barlow voluntary Chair of the Council of Canadians.
Maude Barlow: "We represent the majority of Canadians and we demand to be heard in the corridors of power. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until it is realized."
Tony Clarke: "The biggest threat on the planet to democracy and to our democratic rights and freedoms is the World Trade Organizaton. So we're asking you to . . . Take It Personally."
Maude Barlow: "Thank you all for being here. I think this is boding well for the new millennium and for the 21st century which will be the century when we take down corporate rule. Let us vow that tonight."
working TV #159, RT: 27:30 each,
November 19 1999
This program was produced with funding from
Teachers Federation
Employees - BC Division
the BC Health Services Division of the
Canadian Union of Public Employees
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