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UPDATE: Council of Canadians signs OWINFS statement

As you may know, the Our World Is Not for Sale network is a loose grouping of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting the current model of corporate globalization embodied in the global trading system.

The Council of Canadians has just signed an Our World Is Not for Sale statement that calls on the broader global movement to “confront the converging global crises of our times, replace the trade and investment pacts and related  juggernauts of the corporate-driven global economy, and start building a sustainable economic future together.”

As noted by our trade campaigner Stuart Trew, the three key actions laid out in this statement are:

1. Organizing actions and mobilizing our members to prevent the conclusion of the Doha Round of the WTO before and after its ministerial meeting in Geneva;

2. Promoting and establishing a moratorium on bilateral and bi-regional free trade negotiations in particular countries and regions;

3. Taking action to ensure that the WTO and its neoliberal model of trade are delegitimized as false solutions leading up to the Climate Summit in Copenhagen.

The full statement is available at http://www.ourworldisnotforsale.org/en/signon/global-turn-around.

You can read more about this on the trade campaign page on the Council of Canadians website at http://canadians.org/trade/.