Archive - Call to Action

Inexplicably, the WTO has yet again announced an accelerated schedule of negotiations this spring, after some governments agreed at the November 2010 meetings of the G20 to push for a conclusion the Doha Round of WTO expansion negotiations in 2011. OWINFS encourages social movements and civil society organizations concerned about the impacts of the WTO on workers, farmers, women, the environment, and our future, to organize national pressure immediately on your Trade Minister and other national officials!

PUT PEOPLE FIRST, NOT FINANCES

Call from Dakar to Mobilize for the G8 and the G20 in France in 2011

 

Confronting the G8, May 21st and 22nd, 2011 in Deauville

Confronting the G20, from October 31st to November 5th, 2011 in Cannes

 

Gathered at the Action against the G8/G20 Convergence Assembly at the World Social Forum in Dakar, we - social movements, trade unions, international solidarity associations, women and men from all continents - call for massive popular mobilizations during the G8 summit on May 26th and 27th in Deauville and the G20 summit on November 3rd and 4th in Cannes. Here in Dakar, we have debated about the way to address the social, ecological, economic and geopolitical crises that together constitute a true crisis of civilization...

During the last Climate Talks in Bonn in August some concrete proposals were
brought to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) in order to advance the negotiations to cut the greenhouse gas
emissions in a new and positive way. The main demands of the World Peoples
Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (Cochabamba, April
2010) have been incorporated in the negotiation text of the Ad Hoc Working Group on
Long-term Cooperation under the UNFCCC.

A CALL TO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS AROUND THE WORLD
TO PROTEST THE G20 SUMMIT IN SEOUL

20 COUNTRIES ALONE CANNOT DEFINE THE DESTINY OF THE ENTIRE WORLD

FOR SYSTEM CHANGE AND AN END TO BUSINESS AS USUAL, LET'S BUILD ANOTHER WORLD!

THE PEOPLE WILL NOT CONTINUE TO PAY FOR THE CRISIS.

Join the People's Week of Collective Actions in Seoul, November 6 to 12, 2010

On October 1st tell the South Korean government and the world that the G20 Summit is NO EXCUSE for Repression by participating in the International Day of Action against the pre-Summit attack on Democratic and Human Rights in South Korea.

On the 16th of December, at the start of the high-level "ministerial" phase of the two-week summit, we, the movements for global justice, will take over the conference for one day and transform it into a Peoples Assembly

Mobilization for Turn Around WTO Campaign and Advocacy

Pela presente, nós, representantes de 125 organizações de mais de 50 países, instamos Va. Sa. a representar os interesses de agricultores, trabalhadores, consumidores, mulheres e o meio ambiente, rejeitando a maior liberalização do comércio de alimentos na Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC) e em vez disso, exigir políticas que atinjam a segurança alimentar, o desenvolvimento rural e que protejam os meios de vida dos agricultores através da Soberania Alimentar.

The global food system is in crisis. Millions of people can no longer afford or access the food they need, increasing global hunger and malnutrition. The worlds’ governments need to act now. But the answer does not lie in deeper deregulation of food production and trade. We, concerned non-governmental organizations and social movements, urge you to reject the claims by the leaders of the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), that concluding the Doha Round is a solution to the current crisis.

Day of Action 9am to 12 noon, October 5 2009 Bangkok, Thailand