Re: AUT: Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)

[swelch@xxxxxxx]

The International Forum on Globalization is campaigning around the MAI. We
just took out a full-page ad on it in various editions of the New York
Times on February 12 and 13, and then on Feb. 17 in the International
Herald Tribune. We provide packets of materials on the subject for $10 a
pop, but if you go to our website (www.ifg.org) you can link up to a number
of groups doing campaigns on it. (we're at 1-415-771-3394 or fax
1-800-771-1121)

Also, two of our associates in Canada--Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke--have
written an excellent book on the MAI titled "The MAI and the Threat to
American Freedom."  It is available through Stoddart Publishers in Canada
(1-800-805-1083).

We just heard that a hearing on the MAI that was to be held on the 25th has
been cancelled at the request of the U.S. State Dept. Our associate Lori
Wallach from Public Citizen in DC was to testify against it. She warns
people not to believe that just because they are postponing things that it
means they are going to give up on it!

stephanie



>Has anyone seen any useful pieces on the Multilateral Agreement on
>Investment (MAI) and the campaigns against it?
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>To date in Melbourne the opposition to the MAI has been led by local unions
>and other economic nationalists (e.g. the maoists), although some comrades
>are trying to develop an alternative approach . . .
>
>Steve
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Please note new contact information below:

International Forum on Globalization
1555 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94109
tel 415-771-3394
fax 415-771-1121
ifg@xxxxxxx




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