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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (37426)	7/20/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: banco$	Respond to of 116770

fyi..beyond the NAFTA is Transatlantic Economic Partnership (TEP). Sir Leon Brittan, the outgoing European Commission vice-president seeks to include the deceased Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) initiatives, basically a collection of corporate goodies, in the TEP project and the upcoming "Seattle Round" of global trade talks in November. The MAI was snuffed only after years of secret government negotiations were exposed; the agreement could not stand the light of day. Here is a section of an article from 'Le Monde Diplomatique' - May 1999: Transatlantic Wheeling & Dealing Watch out for MAI Mark Two... "The idea is to convert the meeting of the ministerial conference of the 131 WTO member countries in Seattle in December 1999 (actually November according to the WSJ) into an enormous globalization fair, where the removal of the final obstacles to capital's freedom of action would be negotiated pell-mell. Without any prior decision to that effect, public contracts, competition, product controls and investment would be added to the initial agenda for the revision of the 1994 Marakesh accords on agriculture, services and industrial property. In other words, it is the MAI Dracula. Able in a few hours to find the billions of dollars necessary to save from bankruptcy the few robber barons who have eaten their fill at a speculative fund (LTCM), these new master of the world cannot spare even one tenth that amount to provide over a billion human beings with clean drinking water, even though 25,000 people die every day for want of it." Speaking of the Seattle Round, you may be interested in this past Friday's Wall Street Journal. An in depth piece.."Will Human Chains And Zapatistas Greet The WTO in Seattle?" subheading "Globalization Foes Plan to Hit November Trade Event" Quite an array of groups planning to protest...steelworkers, church and civic organizations, global labor reps...right wing, left wing...the list goes on.