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Subject: F26 Action in Cancun, Mexico!
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 13:04:52 -0800
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE!
You all are invited to take action against the World Economic Forum meeting in Cancun, February 26, 2001:
[Translated from flier distributed in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico]
The World Economic Forum is an organization made up of businesspeople, intellectuals, and government leaders that come together to make decisions that affect all of us without listening to the voices of the people. Important decisions, like what we eat and what medicine we take and whether it is more important to make a fortune in the stock market or suck the life of a human being working in a maquiladora.
Can we talk about democracy when these types of negotiations take place without the consent of the people?
The 26th of February the World Economic Forum will meet in Cancun to decide the future of Mexico.
These negotiations that do not take the needs of the people into consideration, force us to take to the streets and protest against the World Economic Forum this February 26th in Cancun.
For more information you can contact these web-sites: www.d4mx.org www.informaccion.8k.com
[Translation of the first two pages of the d4.mx.org web-site]
What is the World Economic Forum? The World Economic Forum emerged in Davos, Switzerland in 1971 as a business initiative dedicated to the analysis of the world situation (the founding members were 100 businesspeople); this Forum was the father if the WTO which formed in 1982. The WEF describes itself as "independent, impartial, and non-profit" as well as "the first global business, political, and intellectual society." The WEF is an international group more powerful than the World Bank, the G8, the IMF and other known groups.
During the last 5 years the WEF has converted into the primary site of discussion between main political and business leaders about how to manage the globalization process and above all, how to sell the project/plan to the entire world!
The WEF organizes regional meetings and one major world meeting held annually in the Swiss Alps (Davos, Switzerland). The elite of the elite (those who can afford the registration fee) come together during those meetings to reach consensus on "key" issues including: what type of economic policies should be implemented, what stance should be taken on important geo-political, and how critics of global policies should be answered. Other more important issues that affect our daily lives are also addressed: what news to disseminate, what type of food to promote, what type of education there should be, and in what conditions we should work.
Who are the Members of the World Economic Forum?
Think of any industry and its dominant businesses are represented in the World Economic Forum: oil (Exxon, Shell), autos (Ford, GM, Mitsubishi), computers (Microsoft, IBM, Dell), media (Time Warner, Reuters, Televisa, AT&T), electronics (Sony, Toshiba), pharmaceuticals (Roche, Sandoz, Dupont), banking (Citibank, BBV), agriculture (Novartis, Monsanto), beverages (Coca-Cola, Bacardi, Modelo), food (Nestl, Bimbo, Kraft, McDonalds), garment (Nike), tobacco (British American, Philip Morris), and other corporations with dark histories in labor, environmental and human rights issues.
The groups that belong to the Forum include: founding members, corporations from key industries, upcoming business leaders, major media representatives, world renown experts in politics, the economy, science, technology and social issues, leaders from the "new generation," public figures from local governments, international organizations and distinguished figures from the art world.
For more information on the structure of the WEF go directly to: www.weforum.org ---------------------------------
Members of the Mexican Investment Board
SECOFI Dept. of Trade and Industrial Promotion SRE Dept. of Foreign Relations Dept. of Finance and Public Credit BANCMEXT - Mexican Bank of Foreign Trade Director General: Enrique Vilatela Riba NAFINSA- National Financier Director - General: Lic. Carlos Gutirrez AMIB Mexican Association of Stock Market Intermediaries Director-General: Efren del Rosal Calzada
Mexico is the Latin American country with the most representation in the World Economic Forum. Hey, that means that we are now a powerful country worthy of considering ourselves First World!
Other bodies included are: AXA Bolsa Mexicana de Valores Bufete Industrial Carlsmith Ball CEMEX Corporacin Zapata Crdenas Elektra the government of the state of Veracruz Grupo Cydsa Grupo Embotelladores Unidas Grupo Femsa Grupo Ica Grupo Industrial Bimbo Grupo Kahan Automotriz Grupo Marhnos Grupo Mexicano de Desarrollo Grupo Modelo Grupo Televisa Grupo Tribasa Organizacin Ramrez PanAmerican Beverages Pulsar International TV Azteca Vitro Sociedad Anonima