A-Infos (en) ACTION ALERT -- Native Forest Network -- Intl. Day Of Action For Forests And Against "Free" Trade.

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>From what I know of the NFN it is a flat structure in which some  anarchist
are involved, I believe that this is something that anarchists involved in
indigenous solidarity and ecological movements should support.
>  
>  DATE: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:58:27 
>  From: Native Forest Network <nfnena@sover.net>
>  
>   !ACTION ALERT ACTION ALERT ACTION ALERT ACTION ALERT ACTION!
>  
>  CONTACTS:
>  
>  Native Forest Network (NFN), Northern Hemisphere;  Eastern North American
Resource Center, ATTN. Jason Ford -- (802) 863-0571 -- see email return
above;
>  
>  NFN, Southern Hemisphere;  NFN Tasmania, ATTN. Adam Burling -- Ph. (03)
62664654.
>  
>   INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR FORESTS AND AGAINST FREE TRADE:
>  April 19th and 20th, world-wide.
>  
>  	Native Forest Network (NFN), a global autonomous network of forest
protection organizations and representatives committed to protecting the
world's remaining native forest ecosystems, as well as indigenous forest
communities, call for an INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION FOR
FORESTS AND AGAINST FREE TRADE ON:	  APRIL 19TH ( Northern Hemisphere ) and
APRIL 20TH (Southern Hemisphere), 2001.
>  
>  	This day of action is being held in solidarity with direct actions
against the SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, also
occuring on the above dates.  This summit of trade ministers,
representatives, and government officals will be working toward the
implementation of the FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS (FTAA).
>  
>  	The FTAA is the expansion of a NAFTA-like (North American Free
>  Trade Agreement) throughout the Western Hemisphere, excluding Cuba.  If
the FTAA takes effect, it will provide the international timber industry
with yet another incentive to decimate global forest ecosystems.
>  
>  	The Summit Of The America's trade minsters will be pushing the
>  Advanced Tariff Liberalization (ATL), known by its critics as the Global
Free Logging Agreement (GFLA).  The GFLA was tabled at the ill-fated
November 1999 Seattle ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO),
largely due to the work of activists, organizers, and citizens like
ourselves.  It seeks to eliminate tariff and non-tarriff barriers on raw
logs and timber products.  This is projected to increase the timber harvest
globally by 3-4%, and thus provide further impetus for unsustainable logging
practices
>  in order to supply this gluttonous demand.  The timber lobby will seek to
move forward with this agreement this April at the Summit of The Americas in
Quebec City.
>  
>  	In addition, the FTAA will nullify common sense regulatory measures
including Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade (NTBs).  NTBs include:
>  sanitary/phyto-sanitary regulations, regulations controlling the flow of
uninspected forest products, possible hosts to ecosystem-
>  ravaging invasive species, as well as GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES.
>  Common sense regulatory measures like state, regional, national, and
international environmental laws protecting workers, prohibiting toxics, and
controlling pollution, among others will be nullified by the FTAA.  The FTAA
will provide legal avenues for the timber industries to expand their
operations to previously unlogged areas with less regulations and no
accountability.  The FTAA is a direct threat to the ability of forest
communities 
>  to decide how to utilize and protect local forest ecosystems.
>  
>  	JOIN US!
>  
>  	In a day of protest and nonviolent direct action against the
>  explosion of multinational corporate globalization that threatens our
world's forest ecosystems with unregulated logging practices, increases
demand for forest products, and continues deforestation on a global scale.
>  
>  	JOIN US!
>  
>  	As forest protection groups around the world work in solidarity with our
brothers and sisters in Quebec City during the days of action during the
Summit of the Americas against the FTAA:  a thoroughly undemocratic body
meeting behind closed doors, make sweeping hemispheric economic policies
that will affect international forests, and, in the end, all of us.
>  
>  	JOIN US!
>  
>  	In resisting the FTAA's disastrous effect on global forest
>  ecosystems.  The FTAA would prioritize the free flow of goods, services,
and products across international borders, without a thought for workers,
indigenous peoples, and forest communities.
>  
>  
>  	SIGN ON:
>  
>  	Sign your organization on and join the growing international
>  resistance, which will only continue to grow after the days of action on
April 19/20th.  Contact the following NFN representatives (Northern and
Southern Hemispheres respectively.) and let us know what you are planning
for an action.  The idea is to see who is working where, and then come
together to share information and resources, network, educate our forest
communities about the FTAA, and make connections within the international
>  forest protection community for the long term campaign against
>  globalization, including the FTAA's, effects on native forest ecosystems.
>  
>  Organization Sign-up List:
>  
>  Native Forest Network
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING TOOLS AVAILABLE THROUGH ACERCA (ACTION FOR
>  COMMUNITYAND ECOLOGY IN THE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AMERICA):
>  
>  IN-DEPTH FTAA ANALYSIS AND ACTION PACKETS INCLUDED!
>  Utilize contact information below.
>  
>  
>  FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
>  
>  Northern Hemisphere
>  NFN-ENA
>  Jason Ford, Northern Forest Campaigner
>  POB 57
>  Burlington, VT 05402
>  (802) 863 -- 0571  fax (802) 864-8203
>  nfnena@sover.net  www.nativeforest.org
>  
>  Southern Hemisphere
>  NFN Tasmania
>  Adam Burling, Representative
>  PO Box 433
>  Huonville 7109
>  Australia
>  Ph. (03) 62664654
>  aburling@nfn.org.au  www.nativeforest.org


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