FINANCIAL FOOLS DAY:
*Empowering People's Movements Against Trade Agreements and Corporate
Power*
Panel and Discussion
Wednesday, April 1st @ 6:30 pm
*SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings St.) - Room 1800*
/*** This is a free event./
April 1st 2009 marks the date that the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) between BC and Alberta will be fully implemented. This agreement, like NAFTA and many other free trade agreements around the world, serves to increase corporate power and the ability of financial markets to undermine efforts to protect communities, the environment and the dignity of people.
April 1st also marks the beginning of protests in the United Kingdom against the G20 and the global financial system. The current economic crisis has demonstrated to the world that the twisted logic of neo-liberal economics and "free trade" agreements is a recipe for disaster. At the same time we are still being told by elected officials that agreements like TILMA are the solution to the current economic crisis.
Join us on April 1st to learn more about TILMA, NAFTA, bilateral trade agreements, corporate power and how people can continue building resistance to protect our communities and the environment.
Panel:
Gil Aguilar (Wilderness Committee)
- Will FTAs Protect the Environment? A look at Mexico and Canada.
Colleen Fuller (PharmaWatch and the BC Health Coalition)
- Neo-liberal agreements, corporate lawsuits and the healthcare system.
Gord Hill (Olympic Resistance Network and No2010.com)
- Looking back to Seattle 1999 and forward to Vancouver 2010.
Proma Tagore (No One Is Illegal)
- Bilateral Trade Agreements: Canada displacing communities in the
Global South.
Caelie Frampton (BC Stop TILMA Coalition)
- From NAFTA to TILMA: Re-examine trade agreements.
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For more information please contact: 778.858.9647 or hgrewal@canadians.org
Organized by the Council of Canadians
