StopMAI Newsroom

StopMAI Newsroom
A collection of all the StopMAI media releases from 1998

2004

Aug 3		FTA – in the Multinational Interest
Jul 31		Developing Countries Under Duress in All Night WTO Negotiations
Jul 26		Campaign against "Free Trade Agreement" moves to Rockingham this week
Jun 29		WA Globalisation Roundtable to discuss Australia's role in "terror" issues with Tariq Ali
Apr 22		US Free Trade Agreement exposes Australians to reduction of parliamentary and court authority

2003
Sep 15		WTO urgently needs democratic reform
Feb 13		Howard's zeal for Iraq war is about his drive for an Australia-US Free Trade Agreement

2002
Jul 20		How world's citizens can work together to correct governments' globalisation blunders
Feb 3		World citizens insist on a saner new world at enormous anti-globalism conference

2001
Nov 17		Nothing new about "New Trade Round"
Oct 17		Qatar trade summit crumbles to powder as Bush fails to assure security for delegates
(Oct 13)		Planned Subscription Advertisement: GATS Attack [Not proceeded with]
Sept 7		Cairns Group keeps its head firmly in the sand
Sept 4		Concern about bad effects of globalisation gains momentum in Perth
July 23		Official: International trade unions to oppose WTO
July 21		Police murder of G8 Genoa protestor is indefensible
July 11		Australian activists support global actions against Exxon Mobil
July 11		New study casts doubt on benefits of globalisation
Jun 14		EU Summit: Civil Society calls on EU to withdraw new WTO round proposal
May 29		New global rules for export/import of services portend full privatisation of basic utilities
May 5		Sunday's rally to show fuller extent of public opposition to corporate globalism

2000
16 Nov		Globalism speakers available for interview
30 Oct		We must consider "disabling the transnational corporations ...(Walden Bello)
29 Oct		Globalisation convention attracts Western Australians from all walks of life
31 Aug		S-11–Raising the too-hard issues which governments prefer to hide from view
17 Aug		N25 Convention will explore community responses to globalisation
26 May		Fremantle public forum will probe controversial impacts of globalisation
4 May		May Day to raise awareness of the downside of global corporate control
15 Apr		IMF and World Bank do more harm than good
10 Mar		Australia must support Tasmania's 'line in the sand' on salmon imports from non-disease-free WTO countries

1999
5 Dec		Seattle failure spells the end of 'free trade' and the birth of 'fair trade' principles
28 Nov		Seattle Media Centre speaks out for world civil society against unjust WTO 'new round'
15 Nov		STOP THE MILLENNIUM ROUND!!
13 Nov		Trade Minister spurns advice of peak bodies
25 Aug		Consumer movement pushes for curb on APEC, WTO 'free trade' excesses
Jun 26		Perth citizens demand fuller public participation and new approach to DFAT multilateral treaty process
12 Mar		Federal Government misleads us on MAI revival

1998
23 Oct		MAI "STEALTH TREATY" HAS DIED AT OECD FORUM
20 Oct		Howard should abandon unpopular MAI treaty
19 Oct		Letter to the Chairman, MAI Negotiating Group, OECD, Paris
14 Oct		National protest proceeds as report claims French have withdrawn from MAI talks
29 Sep		Investment ‘vampires’ shrink from daylight
22 Sep		MAI treaty negotiations continue in secret
10 Sep		'MAI is vulnerable to challenge by States'
9 Sep		MAI campaign going to Paris in October
7 Sep		Rockingham meeting is last chance for local public participation in MAI debate
3 Sep		Next Public Meeting to be at Rockingham
8 Aug		AUSTRALIA JOINS WORLD PROTEST AGAINST MAI AS TREASURY PUSHES ON WITH ‘STEALTH TREATY’
1 Jul		MAI treaty ‘makes Government lie about exceptions’
19 Jun		ANOTHER PUBLIC RALLY AGAINST MAI
22 Apr		Treaty ‘counter to social cohesion’
14 Apr		FARMERS, UNIONS, GREENS UNITE AGAINST GLOBAL PACT