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Announcement :: Globalization 
AFL-CIO, Ruckus, Immokalee Workers, JWJ and Steelworkers reps to discuss next 
steps FRIDAY Current rating: 0 
by Bill Carey
Email: wcarey (nospam) uswa.org (unverified!)
Phone: 219-881-6212 15 Apr 2004 
What are the next steps for the US Global Justice/Fair Trade Movement? 
Friday, April 16, 2004 
10:30 am to 5:00 pm
The Rodeway Inn, Halsted and Madison, Chicago, Illinois $ 10 donation 
requested 
what\'s next.pdf (42 k)
First Panel: 11:00 to 1:00 pm
>From Seattle in 1999 to Cancun and Miami in 2003, global resistance to the 
corporate trade agenda has brought the “free trade” momentum to a temporary 
halt. But where do we go from here? What lessons can we draw from our colleagues 
in developing countries? What are the goals of an alternative national and 
global economy? What economic policies are needed? What concrete proposals can 
move toward those goals? Panel Participants:
Barbara Dudley, Moderator, Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
Dave Foster, Director, District 11, USWA, Minneapolis MN
Mark Levinson, Policy Director & Chief Economist, UNITE New York City
Denise O’Brien, Women, Food and Agriculture Network, Atlantic, Iowa 
Mark Ritchie, President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 
Minneapolis 

Second Panel: 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
The resistance to the trade agreements has been both inside the trade summits 
and outside in the streets. Efforts are being made to divide this opposition 
into “respectable” NGOs types inside and “violence prone anarchists” 
outside. How do we advance our direct action strategies beyond the increasingly 
choreographed dance with the police and a fence, and how do we maintain strategic 
and tactical unity as we build our new global system? Panel Participants:
Karen Pickett, Moderator, Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
Steward Acuff, Director of Field Organizing, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C. 
Jennie Busch, Chicago Jobs with Justice 
John Sellers, Director, The Ruckus Society, Oakland, CA
Greg Asbed and Lucas Benitez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Immokalee, FL
More information: Dan Leahy at the Alliance: (360) 709-9324 email: leahyd 
(at) evergreen.edu. Chicago area contact: Bill Carey 219-881-6212 wcarey (at) 
uswa.org
CINTAS ACTION: Before the start of the panels there will be a short briefing 
at 9 AM at the hotel followed by a short walk to join an action in support of 
the laundry workers at CINTAS who are trying to organize with UNITE. CINTAS is 
a member of ASJE’s Rogue’s Gallery. 
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