[discuss-dan] FTAA Campaign Materials Available for Teach-Ins, Workshops, etc.

["Doug Bohm" <doug@denverradio.org>]

FTAA CAMPAIGN MATERIALS -please publicize! (Mike Prokosch)


	FTAA Action Packet

This packet will prepare activists to speak on the FTAA, lead teach-ins, and
organize in their communities. It will include a paper on the FTAA, talking
points, an outline for a speech, a sample letter to the editor, a sample
letter to Congress, a sample petition, soundbites, website and reading
lists, overheads and graphs. Available the third week of January.
Order from ACERCA, PO Box 57, Burlington, VT 05402, 802-863-0571,
acerca@sover.net

	FTAA "Campaign of Inquiry" Packet

Backgrounder on the FTAA, action points, and sample letters to Members of
Congress and letters to the editor for a campaign of inquiry on FTAA,
demanding release of the text and related documents as well as an opening of
the negotiations process. The campaign will educate the public and pressure
Congress, the White House, the USTR, etc. Download the packet from
http://www.tradewatch.org/FTAA/ftaahome.html or contact Alesha Daughtrey,
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, 215 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington DC
20003, 202-454-5103, alesha@citizen.org

	"FTAA for Beginners," a two-hour participatory workshop
This workshop describes the FTAA and what it will do to our communities,
starting with what people know: NAFTA. It includes NAFTA case studies; a
race, gender, and class analysis of NAFTA; and a framework of expanding
corporate globalization (WTO, MAI, NAFTA). It ends with a strategy planning
session where participants identify local allies for a long-term anti-FTAA
campaign. $25 for trainer's guide and handouts, + $25 for 2-x-3 foot
flipcharts postpaid, from United for a Fair Economy, 37 Temple Place, Boston
MA 02111, 617-423-2148 x 24, info@ufenet.org

	Popular education training for anti-FTAA activists

The Alliance for Responsible Trade is producing a six-hour popular education
workshop for campus, labor, religious, and community use. It will prepare
activists to form local coalitions against the FTAA and build support for
the Quebec protests, either by recruiting people to go to Quebec or by
promoting local solidarity demonstrations. After a six-hour training, ART
trainers can stay in your community for several days to work with the most
interested activists, but will need financial support to bring you the
workshop. Available from ART, 4834 N. Springfield, Chicago, IL 60625,
773-583-7728, msn@mexicosolidarity.org

	Printed materials from ART and Chicago AFSC

* Six or eight four-page pieces that provide an overview of the FTAA,
analyze its effect on various constituencies (labor, consumers, religious
groups...), and offer alternatives for local organizing.
* A brochure describing the Alliance for Responsible Trade, the Alternatives
for the Americas, and suggestions for local organizing.
* A videotape that describes the FTAA.
* The Alternatives for the Americas document and a two-page summary of it.
All the above will be available from ART (see #4).
* Short pieces: "Questions and answers about the FTAA," "Mexico Under
NAFTA," "United States Under NAFTA," "Overview of Neoliberalism," from
Chicago AFSC, 59 East Van Buren, suite 1400, Chicago IL 60605, 312-427-2533,
praxisafsc@igc.org


	Pocket booklet on the FTAA

"Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA): What are the Corporations Plotting
This Time and Why Do You Care?"  will educate activists and others about the
terminology of the FTAA such as Deregulation of capital controls,
Intellectual property and patent rights protection, Broader definition of
investment, National Treatment, etc and what these things mean for humans
and other living things.  Groups that order 500 copies for $325 can sell the
booklet for $1-$1.50 and make a bit of money for themselves. They also get
listed on the back cover as co-sponsors. It will be available in January
from the Alliance for Global Justice. Groups interested in co-sponsoring
should contact mark@afgj.org

Environmental Action Kit on the FTAA

The Sierra Club's Responsible Trade Program is producing an action kit on
the FTAA's environmental impacts that will include a four-page factsheet,
training materials on communicating to the media and to the general public
about the FTAA, and suggestions on how to build a local Responsible Trade
coalition.  We will support these materials by helping to organize local
"town hall" meetings, conducting speaking tours, connecting Sierra Club
activists to other coalition partners in your area, and supporting both
local actions and participation at the Quebec Summit of the Americas.  For
futher information, contact Dan Seligman at (202) 675-2387 or at
dan.seligman@sierraclub.org

Fact sheets on FTAA's impacts on forests and indigenous peoples, and who's
behind the FTAA

Rainforest Action Network will produce printed materials on how FTAA affects
forests and indigenous peoples. They'll also develop materials on "Who
Writes the FTAA, Who Benefits?" that will spotlight Citigroup, the Business
Roundtable, and the role the private financial sector plays in back
boardroom wheeling and dealing. Can provide teach-in support. Contact Beka
Economopoulos at Rainforest Action Network, 917-560-3609, beka@ran.org




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