Please come to an important community workshop to learn more about how your work
and community is threatened by a dangerous new international agreement that
could radically limit our ability to promote social, economic and environmental
justice. Global trade and investment agreements, like the proposed Multilateral
Agreement on Investment (MAI), are stacking the deck against local communities,
people of color, working and poor people. They are setting the rules of the
economic game by attempting to write a single constitution for the global
economy intended to benefit transnational corporations and foreign investors,
while ignoring local community economic development needs, ecological
sustainability and social justice concerns.
Learn more about what is on the chopping block under this economic globalization
regime, such as:
- The Community Reinvestment Act
- Environmental Justice Regulatory Enforcement under Federal, State and Local Laws
- Programs Favoring Local Community Economic Development
- Livable Wage Laws
- Local Hiring Programs
- Affirmative Action and Equal Benefits Programs
This workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to learn more about
the direct and indirect impacts of the MAI on local communities and the
environment in the San Francisco Bay Area, and what we can still do about it.
What: Community Workshop on the MAI and Globalization Threats to
Environmental Justice and Local Community Economic Development
When: Wednesday, September 23, 1998
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Where: SFSU Downtown Center (directions attached)
425 Market Street (at Fremont), 26th Floor, Room 2608
San Francisco, CA 94105
*Please come with your questions and concerns.
Draft Workshop Outline
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Workshop Overview
III. Introduction to Economic Globalization and the MAI
IV. Interactive Discussion of Local Impacts of the MAI
- Environmental Justice
- Community Development
- Economic Justice
- Ecological Sustainability
V. Grassroots Education, Organizing and Advocacy Challenges: Grassroots
Globalization
VI. Suggested Action Strategies and Shaping Future Directions
VII. Bay Area Delegation to the International NGO Meeting on the MAI
Tentatively scheduled for October 17-20, 1998, Paris, France
VIII. Summary and Conclusion
For more information contact:
Henry Holmes
Director, Sustainable Alternatives to the Global Economy (SAGE)
415.788.3666 ext. 229
hholmes@igc.org
