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Week of Strategy and Action Against EU FTAs |
April 6-11, 2008
Join us for a week of strategy planning and action against European FreeTrade Agreements
Over 50 networks, movements and organisations from the Global South and Europe will join together to sound the alarm on EU Free Trade Agreements
(FTAs)
- April 9 Public Hearing in European Parliament on EU FTAs followed by press conference, action and meeting, Brussels
- April 10/11 Lobbying and advocacy programmes in Brussels, Dublin, London, Madrid, Amsterdam/The Hague and other EU cities
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Will capitalism survive climate change? |
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by Walden Bello
Originally published by Bangkok Post, 29 March 2008.
There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, changes in the planet's climate will be large-scale, irreversible and disastrous. Moreover, the window of opportunity for action that will make a difference is narrow _ that is, the next 10 to 15 years.
Throughout the North, however, there is strong resistance to changing the systems of consumption and production that have created the problem in the first place and a preference for ''techno-fixes,'' such as ''clean'' coal, carbon sequestration and storage, industrial-scale biofuels, and nuclear energy.
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Issue Paper: Understanding the ASEAN Charter and the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint |
by Jenina Joy Chavez*
Published in the AFA and AsiaDHRRA Issue Paper. Vol. 3, No. 1. Quezon City, Philippines, February 2008.
 Abstract
The ASEAN Charter and the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint are two important documents that the 40-year old ASEAN recently signed in order to advance it vision of a "sharing and caring community". Because majority of the people of Southeast Asia are small-scale farmers who depend on agriculture for their existence, it is important to ask how the charter, the blueprint, as well as the various free trade agreements will impact on them.
This issue paper presents basic information on the ASEAN Charter and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint, including updates on ASEAN Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), as well as AFA's analysis and position on these topics.
Click here to download the issue paper from the Asian Farmers Association (AFA) website
*Jenina Joy Chavez is the Philippine Programme Coordinator of Focus on the Global South. She is one of AFA's resource persons in its regional consultations on ASEAN-related matters. Focus on the Global South and AFA/AsiaDHRRA are members of the Solidarity for Asian Peoples Advocacy (SAPA).
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