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Support the Workshop on the World Trade Organization and Indigenous Peoples

Fund Indigenous participants to attend the Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Indigenous Peoples, parallel to the WTO 9th Ministerial Meeting.

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Support the Workshop on the World Trade Organization and Indigenous Peoples

Support the Workshop on the World Trade Organization and Indigenous Peoples

Support the Workshop on the World Trade Organization and Indigenous Peoples

Support the Workshop on the World Trade Organization and Indigenous Peoples

Support the Workshop on the World Trade Organization and Indigenous Peoples

Fund Indigenous participants to attend the Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Indigenous Peoples, parallel to the WTO 9th Ministerial Meeting.

Fund Indigenous participants to attend the Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Indigenous Peoples, parallel to the WTO 9th Ministerial Meeting.

Fund Indigenous participants to attend the Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Indigenous Peoples, parallel to the WTO 9th Ministerial Meeting.

Fund Indigenous participants to attend the Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Indigenous Peoples, parallel to the WTO 9th Ministerial Meeting.

India Reed Bowers
India Reed Bowers
India Reed Bowers
India Reed Bowers
2 Campaigns |
Ostersund, Sweden
$1,620 USD 19 backers
40% of $4,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

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The International Organization for Self-Determination and Equality (IOSDE, http://www.iosde.org/, a human rights-based non-profit organization based in Sweden) is helping the International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL, http://ipmsdl.wordpress.com/) together with the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance (CPA, http://www.cpaphils.org/), Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN, http://www.apiyn.net/), Centre for Research and Advocacy-Manipur, Committee on the Protection of Natural Resources in Manipur, and Land is Life (LiL, http://landislife.org/) to raise funds for Indigenous participants in need of financial assistance to attend the Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Indigenous Peoples: Resisting Globalization, Asserting Self-Determination, described below.

The fundraising goal of $4,000 USD (about 25,450 sek or 2,900 euro) will provide financing for the attendance of 2-3 Indigenous participants, including travel, who are in need of financial assistance to be able to attend.

IOSDE and the workshop organizers welcome donations extending beyond the target goal, as any amount greater than the target goal will continue to go towards the funding for additional Indigenous participants in need of financial assistance to be able to attend the workshop.

All funding amounts are welcome; all funders providing an email will receive an Equality Gift Packet! for download, containing the outcome Unity Statement of Indigenous Peoples, specially-selected photos from the event, and notes of stories and gratitude. For those unable to access email or a downloadable file, a paper version of the Equality Gift Packet! will be sent by post (note this may delay delivery; please request post version only if unable to access an electronic version, so as to conserve both paper and funds).

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Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Indigenous Peoples: Resisting Globalization, Asserting Self-Determination (text from the invitation to participate):

On December 3-6, 2013, the World Trade Organization (WTO) shall convene its ninth Ministerial Meeting (MC 9) in Bali, Indonesia. The Ministerial Meeting is the highest decision-making body of the WTO and usually meets every two years. It can make decisions on any of the multilateral trade related agreements such as the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and forge new multilateral agreements. We expect the MC 9 to push for greater liberalization in agriculture, acceleration of least-developed countries (LDC) in the WTO, and expediting trade facilitation through restructuring of GATT articles on imports-exports and trade costs. At the same time, it shall attempt to mask the mal-development wrought by the WTO.

The commodification of nature and Mother Earth bounds to worsen if the WTO imposes more agreements. Neoliberal globalization and the WTO agreements have aggravated the economic, political, environmental and climatic crises that we face today resulting in more violations of our collective rights as indigenous peoples to our lands, territories, resources, and self-determination. States enact, amend or repeal protective legislations on national industries, agriculture, and services that bar “free trade.” It legalizes liberalization, deregulation and privatization in compliance with WTO agreements and obligations. As a primary instrument of neoliberal globalization, the WTO further violates indigenous peoples’ permanent sovereignty, ownership, rightful control and management, access and benefit of their natural resources, lands, and territories.

Thus, it is for us to engage the WTO and free trade agreements and assert our collective rights, identity, and culture. In all multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations and agreements, our rights as enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, international human rights instruments, the Alta Outcome Document and other declarations must be recognized and upheld. We shall also intensify the defense of our lands, territories, waters and air.

The Workshop on the WTO and Indigenous Peoples: Resisting Globalization, Asserting Self-Determination will occur December 4-5, 2013 in Bali, Indonesia, parallel to the WTO MC9. The workshop is jointly organized by the International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) together with the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance (CPA), Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN), Centre for Research and Advocacy-Manipur, Committee on the Protection of Natural Resources in Manipur, and Land is Life (LiL). It aims to gather indigenous peoples, IP advocates, environmental organizations, human rights organizations, and other civil society organizations (CSOs) in Bali, Indonesia on December 4-5, 2013, with the following objectives:

1. Build deeper understanding and awareness on the WTO and neoliberal globalization, and its impacts on indigenous peoples. Position the struggles of indigenous peoples in the mainstream of the global campaign against WTO and globalization;

2. Act as a forum for exchange and learning on the impacts of WTO on indigenous peoples, and how we confront these. Forge solidarity among indigenous peoples and with other similarly affected sectors of society against neoliberal globalization; and Committee on the Protection of Natural Resources in Manipur

3. Formulate a Unity Statement of Indigenous Peoples that shall be submitted to the WTO MC 9 and shall be part of the PGC statement on WTO; and unite on an Action Plan in engaging the WTO.

The Peoples Global Camp (PGC) will take place on December 3-6, 2013 as the overall CSO parallel activity to the WTO MC9. The PGC is a venue for collective learning, analysis and action against the WTO. It will be a hub where various organizations will conduct self-organized activities and contribute in the Camp’s plenary sessions where common goals and aspirations on alternatives to the current failed development model will be integrated.

Thank you and we look forward to your positive response!

On behalf of the Indiegogo Campaign Coordinator and Steering Committee Member,

INDIA REED BOWERS
Founder & Director, IOSDE
india.bowers@iosde.org

and the Workshop Organizers (for workshop queries, please contact any of the persons below),

WINDEL B. BOLINGET
Chairperson, CPA
cpa@cpaphils.org

MARIFEL MACALANDA
Administrator, APIYN
mafmacalanda@gmail.com

SARAH K. DEKDEKEN
Coordinator, IPMSDL
ipmsdl@gmail.com

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