• Picnic with Friends of Davis, Thursday July 17, 1997
• April Meeting Report
• Calendar of Events
• Marieko Yamada
  • JUST SAY NO TO CORPORATE GREED
  • TEN THINGS KIDS (AND PARENTS) CAN DO
    TO JUST SAY NO TO CORPORATE GREED

Teach-In on the World Trade Organization.

Sunday, November 14, bring friends and family to learn what the World Trade Organization is and what it means to our community.

How can a World Trade Organization challenge and strike down critically important laws passed by our elected representatives that protect our public health, the natural environment, human rights and national sovereignty claiming these laws unfairly restrict trade? If you don't believe this is possible, you can learn the astonishing facts at this community Teach-In.

Come to the Davis Community Teach-In on the WTO, Sunday, 2:00 -5:00 p.m, Blanchard Room, Yolo Country Library, 14th and B Streets, refreshments will be served.

Come learn what is on the agenda when trade ministers from 134 nations meet in Seattle Nov. 30 to Dec. 3 to negotiate new laws especially for agriculture and forestry, imperiling Northwest forests and small farmers all over the world.

Come learn what the future agenda may include if these trade representatives have their way. The plan is to privatize all services--police, fire, teachers, government workers, and to privatize and commodify all remaining resources including the sale and transportation of drinking water.

Speakers include:

• Don Kegley, United Steelworkers of America, "locked out" with 2900 workers at Maxxam's Kaiser Aluminum in Spokane for over a year who helped form the new Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment;
• Paige Fischer, timber trades campaigner with Pacific Environment and Resources in Oakland who will speak on the "almost finalized" "free-logging and wood products agreement;
• Heidi McLean, Sacramentans for International Labor Rights, speaking on labor rights and conditions of work under corporate global capitalism,
• Bill Liebhardt, Prof. of Agronomy and Range Science, UC Davis, speaking on corporate agriculture versus sustainable farming

  DIRECTIONS
  From Sacramento: From Rt. 80, take the Mace Blvd exit; at top of ramp turn right and travel approx 1/2 mile, as you drive up the overpass get to the left and at the light, F Street, turn left; make a first right at the south end of the park onto Fourteenth Street. The library and parking lot are down the street on your right after North Davis Elementary School. See you there.

  This program is sponsored by the Davis Chapter of the Alliance for Democracy. For information call, Nancy Price, 758-0726 or Pam Nieberg, 756-6856. Davis Contact is: Nancy Price, (530) 758-0726 or
  Nancy Price.