[SustainableTompkins] globalization/animal rights/environment - i'll try it again...

[Renada]

Hi again,
   
  sorry - i don't think that went through as an attachment. Here (below) is what I was wondering if anyone is interested in going (NYC/carpooling)....
   
  renada
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  Globalization, Animal Rights, and the Environment

 A Film and Slide Presentation

Sponsored by Global Justice for Animals 

(http://freetradekillsanimals.org) , Times Up! (http://times-up.org) 

, and the NYC People's Referendum on Free Trade

 (http://tradejustice.org)

 

When: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 8PM

Where: Times Up!, 49 East Houston Street between Mott and Mulberry 

Streets. R/W to Prince, 6 to Bleecker, B, D, F, V to

 Broadway-Lafayette.

 

For  more info: Call (347) 436-0458 or email

 info at freetradekillsanimals.org

 

Free trade agreements and institutions like GATT, NAFTA, and the 

World Trade Organization (WTO)  have had disastrous implications for 

animals. Learn about this grim history, the new round of free trade 

agreements-- one of which may be voted on THIS MONTH in Congress, and 

what we can do to prevent their passage. Featuring a slide 

presentation, "Free Trade Kills Animals" and the film "WTO: Wrecking 

Animal Protection."

 


    ABOUT THE SLIDE PRESENTATION

 

Free Trade Kills Animals

Presented by Alex Ross and Jessica Medina Kuroki of Global Justice for

 Animals

The proposed free trade deals with Peru and Panama, if passed, will 

have devastating impacts on wildlife, farmed animals and the 

environment.  Peru and Panama already  face dire environmental 

threats-- coal, oil and timber interests are ravaging the Peruvian 

Amazon, while shrimp farms are destroying the Panamanian mangrove 

forest, and forest wildlife are being driven into extinction as a 

result. But these trade agreements will make a bad situation worse, 

by providing new investor protections for corporations that will 

allow corporations to sue countries   over losses on investments as a 

result of enforcement of environmental laws.  By eliminating tariffs 

on US imports, the agreements will also allow US produced meat, 

dairy, and egg products to flood these 

countries--towards  consumption of factory farmed animal 

products.  The agreements also encourage trade in live animals for 

use in animal exploitation industries-- from US export of fighting 

cocks to US import of dolphins for dolphinariums.  We'll also address 

the next threat-- free trade agreements with Colombia and South Korea.

 

In this riveting and and thought-provoking talk, infused with vast 

historical background, gorgeous images of Amazon wildlife, and even 

humor, activists from Global Justice for Animals will expose 

what  may be the greatest threat ever posed to animal protection.

 

ABOUT THE FILM:

 

WTO Wrecking Animal Protection

 

A Film by Compassion in World Farming

The World Trade Organisation (WTO), which is based in Geneva, 

enforces a worldwide Treaty, the General Agreement on Tariffs and 

Trade (GATT), which insists that free trade must take precedence over 

other legitimate areas of public policy, such as animal protection.

 

For many years now the free-trade rules of the WTO have been impeding 

progress on animal welfare. And unless they are reformed, the WTO 

rules will continue to be a major block to attempts to achieve 

improved welfare standards.

 

Under the WTO rules a country, or a group such as the European Union 

(EU), cannot ban imports even on ethical grounds. It cannot insist 

that its laws designed to protect animals or the environment must 

apply to imported products just as strongly as to domestically produced

 goods.

 

These rules are making it difficult for countries to raise animal 

welfare standards within their own borders as their farmers risk 

being undermined by cheap, low-welfare imports.

 

CIWF wants WTO rules reformed to allow countries (and groups of 

countries such as the EU) to be able to ban meat, milk and eggs that 

have not been produced to the same welfare standards as within their 

own territory.

 

Wetlands Activism Collective, PO Box 344, New York, NY 10108

Phone: (201) 928-2831 Email: activism at wetlands-preserve.org

 

Visit these websites!

  http://wetlands-preserve.org * http://freegan.info * 

http://ftaareferendum.org * http://freetradekillsanimals.org 

*  http://foodnotfur.org  * http://furfreenyc.org 

*  http://www.friendsofbradwill.org/ * http://andystepanian.com/

 

 

 

For announcements of human, animal, and earth liberation actions in 

New York City, send a blank email message to 

wetlands-activism-subscribe at lists.riseup.net.

 
   
  

       
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