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AFTINET Bulletin No 78
17 December 2003

• Update on USFTA negotiations and campaign
• Regional AFTINET members hold strong concerns over USFTA
• WTO aims to revive stalled talks next year
• Internet animation on USFTA and cultural protection
• Fair Wear Christmas theatrical action, Sydney 6pm Thursday 18 December

AFTINET Bulletin No 77
4 December 2003

• Senate Inquiry report: fax or email the Minister
• Australia Institute: new report on USFTA and pharmaceuticals
• US Drug Industry Seeks to Sway Prices Overseas
• US and Australian organisations criticise USFTA

AFTINET Bulletin No 76
28 November 2003

• Successful launch of organisational endorsements of AFTINET statement of concerns about USFTA
• Senate Inquiry report released
• ALP statement about culture and the USFTA
• Reports of FTAA meeting in Miami
• AFTINET AGM and new working group
• Call for Sydney volunteers for Active Sydney Fair, evening of 8 December

AFTINET Bulletin No 75
12 November 2003

• USFTA campaign accelerates in the media
• EU shifts stance on deadlocked WTO trade talks

AFTINET Bulletin No 74
31 October 2003

• Free trade clause would be a dangerous weakening of the law
• Letter to Trade Minister from environmental organisations regarding USFTA
• Environmental study predicts link between USFTA and greater water use
• US Free Trade Agreement Teach In: Sydney 5 November

AFTINET Bulletin No 73
24 October 2003

• Support from US to leave drugs out of US Free Trade talks
• Australia Thai Free Trade Agreement
• British Cancun Report calls for WTO rethink
• EU/developing countries Joint Parliamentary Assembly Opposes Liberalisation of Water

AFTINET Bulletin No 72
16 October 2003

• Not too late to send in signed endorsements on USFTA!
• Don’t be BUSHWACKED. Protest against the USFTA at Sydney anti George Bush rally 19 October
• Canberra USFTA rally 27 October, 12.30pm. Come if you can!
• WA events 16 to 24 October
• Free Fair Wear Training, Sydney, 5 November

AFTINET Bulletin No 71
8 October 2003

• Sydney Cancun report back seminar
• W(h)ither the WTO after Cancun?
• Trade Officials Poll Reveals Little Hope For Quick Progress in Doha Round Talks
• Members of Parliament Hail Kenyan Trade Minister for Leading WTO Walkout

AFTINET Bulletin No 70
25 September 2003

• New USFTA sign-on statement: please endorse as soon as possible
• Rally against the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement: 27 October Canberra
• Whither the WTO after Cancun? Sydney seminar, 14 October
• Canberra hearing: Senate GATS / USFTA inquiry, 2 October
• The Meaning of Cancun
• ‘Free to be Australian’ Public Meeting: Sydney, 6 October

AFTINET Bulletin No 69
17 September 2003

• Whither the WTO after Cancun? Sydney WTO report back, 14 October
• Canberra USFTA rally, 27 October
• Failed Cancun talks throw up new trade power

AFTINET Bulletin No 68
15 September 2003

• Media release: WTO failure is a win
• Collapse of WTO talks

AFTINET Bulletin No 67
12 September 2003

• Agriculture now centre stage at Cancun
• South Korean NGO leader in WTO suicide protest
• Globalisation Roundtable, Perth 20 September

AFTINET Bulletin No 66
10 September 2003

• Joint Australian and US Unions’ Statement on the Aust-US Free Trade Agreement
• USFTA Local Government Resolution: take it to your council
• Write to the ALP about its USFTA policy
• Health Care At Risk: Seminar Sydney 20 September
• ABC in Crisis Public Forum: Sydney 28 September

AFTINET Bulletin No 65
2 September 2003

• Events for the WTO Ministerial Meeting, September 10-14
• Websites for the WTO Ministerial Meeting
• Democracy and Developing Countries in the cold at WTO Ministerial Meeting
• Flawed WTO drugs deal will do little to secure future access to medicines in developing countries (30 August 2003)
• GATS call to Cancun: essential services like water out of the WTO: sign by Sept 4th

AFTINET Bulletin No 64
15 August 2003

• New AFTINET leaflet about PBS
• Write to Mark Vaile about the PBS
• US wants reform of ‘unfair’ PBS
• US trade deal may triple drug cost

AFTINET Bulletin No 63
31 July 2003

• Draft AFTINET submission to DFAT on WTO negotiations: comments by August 11
• Draft Cancun Ministerial text released: NGOs critical
• Sydney: volunteers needed for AFTINET mailout Wednesday 6 August
• Reminder: AFTINET training Sydney 27 August
• New book on the politics of the WTO

AFTINET Bulletin No 62
24 July 2003

• Senate Committee hearings and successful rally Sydney 23 July
• New AFTINET training Sydney, 27 August
• Visit your local member about the USFTA! Project underway
• Free trade deal is bad medicine
• US trade deal may end in court
• Trade deal's protected areas

AFTINET Bulletin No 61
17 July 2003

• Reminder: AFTINET Lunchtime Rally Sydney 23 July on USFTA and GATS
• Reminder: Submissions to DFAT on WTO negotiations due 15 August
• Visit your local member about the USFTA Campaign about to begin
• ALP and Democrat dissent on Singapore Australia Free Trade Agreement
• Keep investment pacts off Cancun's agenda
• USFTA event Perth 26 July

AFTINET Bulletin No 60
1 July 2003

• Rally 1 pm, 23 July in Sydney to support Senate Hearing on GATS and USFTA
• DFAT’s USFTA statements: focus on abolition is misleading

AFTINET Bulletin No 59
11 June 2003

• Zoellick Says FTA Candidates Must Support U.S. Foreign Policy
• USTR Agenda Spread Over Multiple Fronts
• MEAA launches new campaign on USFTA / US Words No Comfort For Aussie Film and Television Industry
• Reminder: GATS and USFTA training: Sydney, 1 July
• George Monbiot speaks in Sydney

AFTINET Bulletin No 58
20 May 2003

• Successful launch of new AFTINET leaflet ‘Trading Australia Away?’ - Order your copies now!
• Resumed US trade negotiations a threat to prescription medicine costs - Shadow Trade Minister’s statement
• US to confront EU on genetically modified foods
• 'I was wrong about free trade’ - Former British trade and industry secretary
• Sydney USFTA symbolic rally – Friday 30 May, at 131 Macquarie St
• Working bee - Wednesday 28 May

AFTINET Bulletin No 57
7 May 2003

• AFTINET USFTA publication launch: 20 May at Parliament House, Sydney
• Business Roundtable Readies P.R. Campaign To Back Global Trade Talks
• New Oxfam report calls proposed WTO agreement on investment "a disaster for development"
• African countries don’t want to start negotiating new issues in WTO
• Political Economy Conference – University of Sydney, 9 May 2003
• Workshop on the world water crisis and Australia’s water – Sydney, 31 May 2003

AFTINET Bulletin No 55
18 March 2003

• US Free Trade Agreement leaflet and letter this week and Senate Submissions
• Social policy fears over trade deal
• Successful GATS Day of Action
• AFTINET meetings with DFAT
• New Report Shows Negative Impacts, Threats Of Water Privatisation
• WTO fears Bush go-it-alone role

AFTINET Bulletin No 54
5 March 2003

• GATS Action 11 March: 12.00 at Sydney Water Offices
• Vaile announces objectives for USFTA
• Community Forum on GATS and USFTA: Sunday 16 March
• Cancellation of meeting on the impact of GATS and USFTA on media and broadcasting, 30 March
• Reminder about Senate inquiry submission date: 21 March

AFTINET Bulletin No 53
13 February 2003

• Louise Southalan starts work and drafts GATS submission circulated to members
• GATS campaigners score victory on EU health, education and broadcasting, but condemn EU on postal, environmental and other services
• US Government stalls on access to medicines for developing countries
• US Service Industry demands in the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement

AFTINET Bulletin No 52
16 January 2003

• AFTINET submission on Australia-US Free Trade Agreement
• DFAT GATS Discussion Paper: Comments by 24 February 2003
• Senate GATS and FTA Inquiry submissions due 21 March 2003

AFTINET Bulletin No 51
8 January 2003

• Churches launch global campaign on trade and human rights
• US bilateral FTA talks with Central America start in January
• US-Australia Free Trade Agreement due to get underway in first half of 2003
• Reminder about submissions to DFAT by 15 January 2003