The Redwood Action Team at Stanford invites you to a:
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                **WTO TEACH-IN**
                   TODAY, NOON
                     WHITE PLAZA
**with lunch provided by food not bombs**
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>         This coming weekend thousands of world leaders will be meeting in
>Quatar for the fourth ministerial meetings of the World Trade Organization
>(WTO).  Although the meetings have not yet received much coverage in the US
>media, decisions made at these meetings will directly effect the lives of
>nearly every inhabitant of this planet - including you!
>
>         Come to WHITE PLAZA at NOON on THURSDAY (November 8th) to learn
>about why citizen groups across the globe are using this opportunity to
>express their dissatisfaction with the WTO and the world governmental
>policies it affects.  The Redwood Action Team at Stanford (in affiliation
>with several other campus groups) is organizing a teach-in and discussion
>about the effects of the WTO on labor, trade, agriculture, forestry,
>development and other issues.  Most importantly, we will be discussing why
>dissenting voices are being increasingly excluded from the WTO, and why
>these dissenting voice need to be taken seriously.
>
>         The last ministerial meeting of the WTO, in Seattle in November
>1999 launched one of the most effective protests in modern memory.
>Veterans of Seattle and other anti-globalization protests will be present
>to share their experiences confronting an organization which is
>fundamentally non-democratic, and whose expressed goal is to undermine
>local communities and replace them with hegemonized global corporate
>culture.  We will be discussing alternatives to the WTO and corporate
>capitalism.
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>         Free food will be provided by Food Not Bombs.
>
>         For additional information, or to help organizing (help is needed
>with food, and we welcome those who know about the issues to contribute
>their knowledge), contact  me (Forrest:  ffleisch@stanford.edu).