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26th July 2006, 13:06
Teach–In: The G20 and APEC
Come to a teach-in on Saturday, August 12 at UTS! Learn, skillshare, collaborate and plan for mobilisations around the meetings of the G20 in Melbourne in November 2006, and of the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) in Sydney in September 2007.
Saturday, August 12
10:00 am – 3:30 pm
University of Technology Sydney
Building 2, Broadway
Agenda
10am: Welcome and Registration
10:30 – 11:30am: Plenary - What is the G20 and APEC & how can we organise around them?
- Karen Iles (Aid/Watch)
- John Hepburn (Greenpeace)
- James Goodman (UTS Institute for International Activism)
- Patricia Ranalds (Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network)
11:30 – 12:30 pm Workshops:
- Climate Change and Energy: Iain Murray (Greenpeace)
- Direct Action and Affinity Groups: Holly Creenaune (Australian Student Environment Network)
- International Financial Institutions: Karen Iles (Aid/Watch)
- Trade Justice: Jemma Bailey (Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network)
- Make Poverty History: Luke Fletcher (Jubilee) and Madeleine Penman (Oaktree Foundation)
2:30 – 1:30 Lunch, opportunity to network and pick up campaign information from stalls.
1:30 – 2:30 Second workshop session. Above workshops can be repeated; opportunity for other workshops.
2:40 – 3:30 Making a map of our ideas and visions, possibilities for collaboration, and creating a plan of action for Sydney!
About the G20
One November 18-19, Melbourne will host the G20 meeting of finance ministers, reserve bank governors and heads of the World Bank and IMF – the most significant gathering in Melbourne of people responsible for pushing corporate-led globalisation, neoliberalism and capitalism since the World Economic Forum in 2000.
The G20 has a specific role in overseeing the operations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. These global institutions, along with the World Trade Organisation, The World Economic Forum, and the G8, represent the interests of global business, and impose their agenda onto governments with their monetary clout. Poorer communities are particularly susceptible, as they are forced to accept their demands in return for limited access to the world markets, where the odds are well and truly stacked against them.
There are five items on the agenda of the G20 Melbourne meeting: "reform" of the IMF and World Bank, energy and resources commodities (nuclear power and climate change), demographic change, migration and labour mobility, domestic economic policies and development, and aid effectiveness.
About APEC
In 2007, Australia will host the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum, with more than 100 meetings spread across every state and territory, culminating in Sydney on September 8 – 9 with the biggest meeting of world leaders ever held in Australia.
APEC is a group of Pacific Rim countries which work, behind closed doors, to strengthen and develop economic and political ties. APEC meetings occur without any input from civil society , but are heavily lobbied by energy corporations such as BHP, Rio Tinto, Chevron and Woodside. Participants in the 2007 forum will include the US President and prime ministers from throughout the Asia Pacific region, including China, Japan and Indonesia.
APEC is yet another ingedient in the alphabet soup of international institutions and forums (including the WTO, IMF, WB, BIT and FTA) that serves up a bitter brew of unregulated free trade and corporate control, regardless of the social and environmental consequences.
For Prime Minister John Howard, APEC is an opportunity to host the biggest meeting of world leaders ever held in Australia, while pushing a free trade model that is fuelling unsustainable growth and climate change. It is also a key opportunity to promote the interests of the Australian coal and uranium export industries through APEC's Energy Working Group.
For the rest of us, it's a chance to expose and challenge APEC's model of corporate globalisation, that places the legal rights of corporations above those people and the environment. It's a chance to put climate change and corporate globalisation firmly on the agenda of the 2007 Federal election. It's a chance to join together across different campaigns, to build power and a shared vision of what a better world may look like.
APEC meetings start in Perth in September 2006 – and there will be 100 meetings spread across every state and territory – before the main APEC summit in Sydney on 8-9 September 2007.
www.stopg20.org
Come to a teach-in on Saturday, August 12 at UTS! Learn, skillshare, collaborate and plan for mobilisations around the meetings of the G20 in Melbourne in November 2006, and of the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) in Sydney in September 2007.
Saturday, August 12
10:00 am – 3:30 pm
University of Technology Sydney
Building 2, Broadway
Agenda
10am: Welcome and Registration
10:30 – 11:30am: Plenary - What is the G20 and APEC & how can we organise around them?
- Karen Iles (Aid/Watch)
- John Hepburn (Greenpeace)
- James Goodman (UTS Institute for International Activism)
- Patricia Ranalds (Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network)
11:30 – 12:30 pm Workshops:
- Climate Change and Energy: Iain Murray (Greenpeace)
- Direct Action and Affinity Groups: Holly Creenaune (Australian Student Environment Network)
- International Financial Institutions: Karen Iles (Aid/Watch)
- Trade Justice: Jemma Bailey (Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network)
- Make Poverty History: Luke Fletcher (Jubilee) and Madeleine Penman (Oaktree Foundation)
2:30 – 1:30 Lunch, opportunity to network and pick up campaign information from stalls.
1:30 – 2:30 Second workshop session. Above workshops can be repeated; opportunity for other workshops.
2:40 – 3:30 Making a map of our ideas and visions, possibilities for collaboration, and creating a plan of action for Sydney!
About the G20
One November 18-19, Melbourne will host the G20 meeting of finance ministers, reserve bank governors and heads of the World Bank and IMF – the most significant gathering in Melbourne of people responsible for pushing corporate-led globalisation, neoliberalism and capitalism since the World Economic Forum in 2000.
The G20 has a specific role in overseeing the operations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. These global institutions, along with the World Trade Organisation, The World Economic Forum, and the G8, represent the interests of global business, and impose their agenda onto governments with their monetary clout. Poorer communities are particularly susceptible, as they are forced to accept their demands in return for limited access to the world markets, where the odds are well and truly stacked against them.
There are five items on the agenda of the G20 Melbourne meeting: "reform" of the IMF and World Bank, energy and resources commodities (nuclear power and climate change), demographic change, migration and labour mobility, domestic economic policies and development, and aid effectiveness.
About APEC
In 2007, Australia will host the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum, with more than 100 meetings spread across every state and territory, culminating in Sydney on September 8 – 9 with the biggest meeting of world leaders ever held in Australia.
APEC is a group of Pacific Rim countries which work, behind closed doors, to strengthen and develop economic and political ties. APEC meetings occur without any input from civil society , but are heavily lobbied by energy corporations such as BHP, Rio Tinto, Chevron and Woodside. Participants in the 2007 forum will include the US President and prime ministers from throughout the Asia Pacific region, including China, Japan and Indonesia.
APEC is yet another ingedient in the alphabet soup of international institutions and forums (including the WTO, IMF, WB, BIT and FTA) that serves up a bitter brew of unregulated free trade and corporate control, regardless of the social and environmental consequences.
For Prime Minister John Howard, APEC is an opportunity to host the biggest meeting of world leaders ever held in Australia, while pushing a free trade model that is fuelling unsustainable growth and climate change. It is also a key opportunity to promote the interests of the Australian coal and uranium export industries through APEC's Energy Working Group.
For the rest of us, it's a chance to expose and challenge APEC's model of corporate globalisation, that places the legal rights of corporations above those people and the environment. It's a chance to put climate change and corporate globalisation firmly on the agenda of the 2007 Federal election. It's a chance to join together across different campaigns, to build power and a shared vision of what a better world may look like.
APEC meetings start in Perth in September 2006 – and there will be 100 meetings spread across every state and territory – before the main APEC summit in Sydney on 8-9 September 2007.
www.stopg20.org