Asia Pacific People for Environment and
Community
Putting People into APEC!
Conference
Saturday September 1
Guthrie Theatre, Design Building, UTS
Harris St, Ultimo (next to ABC Building and footbridge)
9 – 9.30am
Arrival – Fair Trade Stalls and Information Stalls
9.30 – 10.00am
Tea
& Coffee from the Fair Trade Coffee Company
10.00 – 10.10am
Open,
Welcome & Acknowledgement of Country Introductions – Suzette Clark
10.10 – 11.00am
Panel
Session – APEC's free trade agenda, and the
impact
on labour rights and human rights
Professor Jane
Kelsey (New Zealand)
University of Auckland, and
Action Resource Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA)
‘Why APEC's Free
Trade Agenda will Implode’
John Sutton,
National Secretary
Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union
‘The lack of
rights for temporary migrant workers in the Asia Pacific region, the issue of Visa 457
workers in Australia’
Kelly Dent,
Labour rights campaigner
Oxfam Australia,
‘Campaigning against union
busting and labour market flexibilisation - with a focus on Indonesia’
11.00 – 12.30
PARALLEL
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Guthrie Theatre
Michael Cebon, Global trade watch - Documentary
'Squeezed: The Cost of Free Trade in the Asia-Pacific'
Room 3.20
John McKinnon, Tear Australia
‘Make
Globalisation History’
Room 4.01/4.02
Roger O’Halloran
& Brendan Joyce; Palms Australia
‘Working cross culturally’ – NOTE 2 HRS
and 2 rooms
Room 4.03
Debbie
Carstens & Liz Thompson, Fair Wear & Kelly Dent, Oxfam
‘Campaigning in
Solidarity with Garment and Sportswear workers across Asia and Australia’
Room 4.07
Junichi Nichihara, Hokkaido
Farmers Union, Masaaki Yamaura, Consumers Union of Japan & Tadafuni Ichimura, Forum for
Peace, Human Rights and Environment, Japanese NGO groups
‘What are the problems with the Japan FTA for Asian and
Pacific people?’
Room 4.16
Julius Roe, National President of AMWU &
Elmer Labog, Kilusang
Mayo Uno - May First Movement- Labor Centre Philippines
‘Labour rights
in the region’
Room 4.17
Ken Davis, APHEDA &
Flint Duxfield, AIDWATCH
‘Aiding or
abetting’
Room 4.45
Stuart Munckton &
Raul Bassi, Venezuela Solidarity Network
‘ALBA- The
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas - as an alternative model for APEC’
12.30 – 1.30pm
Lunch
Food available from the Fair
Trade Coffee Company
Fair Trade and Information Stalls
1.30 – 1.35pm Open
session and Introductions - Pat Ranald
1.35 – 2.30
Panel Session – APEC’s agenda and its relationship to the environment and peace and security
Athena Ronquillo-Ballesteros (Philippines)
Greenpeace International
‘Strategies
needed to address climate change in the region’
Dave
Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner
Australian
Conservation Foundation,
'Mining
Uranium - Undermining the future: Australia's nuclear ambitions and the region'
Elmer Labog (Philippines),
Chairperson of the Kilusang Mayo Uno
May First Movement Labor Centre,
"Workers
Fighting Back Against APEC's’ Intensified Attacks on People’s
Economic and Political Rights!”
2.30 – 4pm PARALELL
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Guthrie Theatre
Andrew Lowenthal, Engage Media,
‘Online video as
a tool for social change’
Room 3.20
Julie-Anne Richards, Climate
Action Network Australia
‘International
Action on Climate Change: a fair plan to ensure a safe climate’
Room 4.01
Elmer Labog, Kilusang Mayo Uno - May first Movement -
Labor Centre Philippines & Peter Murphy, Philippines Australia
Union Link, Migrante Philippines Australia
‘Militarism,
democracy and people’s movement in Asia and Oceania region’
Room 4.02
Jennifer Vallentinte
& Renee Attard, Jubilee Australia
‘Under the
Influence: How International Financial Institutions fund deforestation in SE
Asia’
Room
4.03
Imogen
Zethoven & John Hallam, Sydney
Nuclear Free Coalition
‘Nuclear powered
climate change myths & Australian uranium and weapons proliferation'’
Room 4.07
The Greens
‘Coal, climate change and climate refugees
in the global economy’
Room 4.16
Lara Daley & Adam
Wolfenden, Friends of the Earth Sydney
‘Dissent and the
good protestor'
Room 4.17
Louise Robards, Pacific Calling Partnership, Mark Raue, Catholic Education Office Wollongong,
‘Climate
Changing Our Neighbours Future’
Room 4.45
Keith McHenry, Food Not Bombs
‘Resisting the
trade agreements, favoring corporations while increasing poverty and
hunger’
Exhibitions
Friends
of the Earth Sydney, ‘Trajectories
of Dissent’ (Room 3.21)
Aiming
to contextualise dissent in Australia against APEC this year, the photos displayed will
demonstrate the diversity of groups, causes and struggles which have mobilised against
APEC and whom form part of a global movement for social, environmental and trade justice.
Friends of ‘Comfort Women’ in Australia,
‘Exhibition of photos by survivors’
(Located beside Friends
of 'Comfort Women' information stall)
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