WLOE E-Newsletter: 20 August 2003:
KOREA; USA -- DEMOCRACY
UNDER ATTACK; WOMEN AND GLOBALIZATION; BLACK-OUTS, HEAT, FIRE – AND A SANEENERGY
POLICY?
South Korea
South Korean NGOs say: Stop War Planning and Start Peace Talks. Gyung-Lan Jung from Women Making Peace sent us this statement from elevenSouth Korean women's, peace, environmental and worker's groups. http://www.notwar.org/USA: "DEMOCRACY IS UNDER ATTACK - LET'S TAKE IT BACK"
Cynthia McKinney, Harlem, NYC - July 31, 2003: "I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo than America.I cannot be calm.Dialogue must be followed by swift and deliberate action to root out racismat its very core. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/080503_take_it_back.htmlWOMEN AND GLOBALIZATION: on the Sacramento Mobilization Against Biotech and the WTO
The Arrest of the Seed Balls --or What Universe Are We Living In?A Tale from the Sacramento Mobilization Against Biotech and the WTOJune 20-25, 2003, By Starhawk"Early in the morning of June 21st, a phone call awakened those of usstaying in the organizers' house for the Sacramento protests against theconference organized by Anne Veneman and the USDA to promote biotech andindustrial agriculture to ministers from WTO countries, in the run-up to theCancun ministerial scheduled for September."They're raiding the Welcome Center!" a frantic voice told us. "There's adozen cops, and a paddy wagon...come down!"Read the full text at: http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/seedball_arrest.htmlWOMEN AND GLOBALIZATION: Women trafficking, spread of AIDS closely linked
Spontaneous enthusiasm and South Asian sisterhood marked the opening of the three-day 18th South Asia Court of Women on Human Trafficking and HIV/AIDS…"Trafficking in person and the threat of HIV/AIDS are closely linked. About two million people are trafficked world wide annually including 3,50,000 from South Asia and 2,25,000 from South East Asia," the Women AffairsMinister said."According to unofficial estimates, about 10 to 20 thousand women and children are trafficked annually from Bangladesh to India and other neighbouring countries for prostitution, bonded labour or sex slavery.BLACK-OUTS, HEAT, FIRE – or a sane energy policy?
This summer forest fires burned huge sections of over-heated Portugal; inFrance an estimated 5,000 people, mostly elderly, died in the recent heatwave. The environment and population of Karachi, Pakistan are the latest victims of an oil spill... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3160833.stm