Archive - Call to Action

Dear Friends, As the the climate negotiations intensify on the road to Copenhagen, a key issue that has occuppied much attention is the issue of mitigation and the burden-sharing between developed and developing countries.

We are writing to you in regard to the upcoming celebration in New York, on June 1 to 3, of the United Nations’ Conference on the Economic and Financial Crisis and its Impact on Develoment. We urge you to give this Conference the priority it deserves and to participate, in your capacity as Heads of State, leading a delegation from your country of the highest level including the participation of relevant ministries and civil society organizations and movements involved in addressing the impacts and building alternatives in the face of this crisis.

Some 150,000 to 200,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Madrid, Brussels, Prague and Berlin during the three European Action Days organised by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on 14, 15 and 16 May 2009. Other demonstrations will also take place in Luxembourg, Bucharest and Birmingham.

We envision this strategy meeting to be an opportunity for all of us to build and strengthen alliances and work together on a common action plan on not only on the WTO but on FTAs and EPAs as well.

Over 100 peasant, labor and community leaders from South Korea are coming to Washington DC to protest the US-Korea Free Trade Negotiations and neoliberal globalization!

An international campaign for the release of the 14 activists arrested in Hong Kong during the WTO 6th Ministerial Conference.

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Call to action: HONG KONG MINISTERIAL. Issued by the WTO Wirodhi Bharatiya Jan Abhiyan.

We urge you to join with us in demanding immediate accountability from our government for its hypocrisy and challenge its complicity in a process that reflects shamefully on us all

Operation Get up! Stand up! Its About Livelihoods and is a rallying call for civil society to be mobilized against the continuing destruction of livelihoods due to the current process of trade liberalization.