Tamin'ny fiandohan'ny volana Jona, ny minisitry ny varotra Kanada, Pierre Pettigrew, dia nanambara tamim-pifaliana ny fahafatesan'ny hetsika “manohitra ny fanatontoloana”. “Mahazo fahafaham-po lehibe aho amin'ny zava-misy fa nanjavona tanteraka ny trangan-javatra manohitra ny fanatontoloana”, hoy izy. Ny alin'ny mini-minisitera tsy ara-potoana tsy ara-potoanan'ny Fikambanana Iraisam-pirenena Momba ny Varotra tao afovoan-tanànan'i Montréal tamin'ity herinandro ity, dia nihira hira hafa izy. Nanakiana an'ireo nihetsiketsika nanohitra ny fivorian'ny WTO izy, ary nilaza fa “tokony hitondra ny andraikiny izy ireo fa ny zavatra ezahan'izy ireo atao dia tena manodinkodina ireo mpamboly landihazo afrikanina sy ireo voan'ny VIH Afrikana”.
Tamin'ny fampianarana ny Sabotsy “Teny dia fitaovam-piadiana” manohitra ny OMC tao amin'ny Universite Du Quebec a Montréal (UQAM) aho, dia nandinika ampahibemaso ny antony nahatonga an'i Toronto tamin'ity herinandro ity ny fampisehoana Rolling Stones nalaza be (raha nanandrana ny hanintonana ny tanàna ny tanàna. Niverina indray ny mpitsidika sy ny poketrany taorian'ny tahotra ny SARS) raha nahazo ny fivorian'ny WTO i Montréal. Nanolo-kevitra aho fa angamba ny hiran'i Stones mety indrindra ho an'i Pettigrew dia mety ho You Can't Always Get What You Want na (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.
As trade ministers and officials from 25 other countries arrive in the city, at a local and global level, things are not going so well for the WTO. Just over a week before the Montreal meetings kicked off, the original venue, the lavish Queen Elizabeth Hotel, changed its mind about hosting the event, citing concerns for the safety of its clients and staff. So the meetings moved to the Sheraton. Police have erected a perimeter around the Sheraton complex and a no-traffic zone in the streets around it.
This has infuriated small businesses, many of whom say that they have been advised to close for the meeting’s duration. “I’m very upset. No one gives a damn about small businesses”, Emmanuel Mavrikidakis, who runs several central city parking lots, told the Montreal Gazette. The resulting traffic disruption is not endearing the meeting to many Montrealers either.
The WTO is in crisis management mode. The Montreal meeting is a last-ditch attempt before September’s WTO Ministerial in Cancun to try to get agreement on widely differing positions in global trade negotiations which have become bogged down. While Pettigrew characterised Montreal as “a meeting that will want to weed out the issues so that when we arrive in Cancun, we are already hot”, others were less upbeat. Even New Zealand’s trade minister, ardent free trader Jim Sutton said that the mini-Ministerial was needed “to avoid a derailment at Cancun,” and that it needed to issue a challenge to revitalize the “lagging negotiations”.
Few expect the Montreal meeting to break the gridlock which has seen negotiating deadlines missed and renewed tensions between the Quad countries which dominate the WTO (US, EU, Japan and Canada) and many countries in the South, as well as disagreements among the Quad countries themselves. Some are predicting that the Cancun talks could be an embarrassing flop, and that this would plunge the 146-member organisation into a serious crisis of credibility.
Drafitra lahatsoratra ho an'ny Minisitera Cancun nivezivezy tamin'ny 18 Jolay dia tonga noho ny fanakianana mafy noho ny fitotongan'izy ireo ho an'ny tombontsoan'ny Avaratra indostrialy, sy ny tsy fahombiazany maneho ny fomba fijery samihafa notanan'ireo delegasiona tatsimo maro momba ny olana maro, anisan'izany ny andrana notarihan'ny EU. hanosika fifanarahana fampiasam-bola ho eo amin'ny latabatra fifampiraharahana amin'ny WTO. Izy io koa dia manambara bebe kokoa ny dingana manohitra ny demaokratika an'ny WTO izay nanaisotra tsy tapaka ireo delegasiona avy amin'ny firenena mahantra maro tsy handray anjara amin'ny votoatiny.
Toy ny tamin'ny faran'ny volana Jona mini-ministra tany Ejipta (jereo ny ZNet Commentary farany, Lurching Towards Cancun, raha mila fanazavana fanampiny momba izany), ny fambolena – indrindra ny fanontaniana mahasosotra momba ny fanampiana ara-pambolena – dia mety hanjaka amin'ny fivorian'i Montréal. Toy izany koa ny resaka TRIPS (Fifanarahana momba ny lafiny ara-barotra mifandraika amin'ny zon'ny fananana ara-tsaina) sy ny zon'ny firenena hamokatra na hanafatra fanafody générique mora vidy.
Given the continued hardline stance of the US at the WTO in protecting the exclusive patents and rights of its pharmaceutical corporations to make money, over the lives of people with HIV/AIDS who are being denied treatment, the Bush Administration’s recent move to tie aid for HIV/AIDS to governments’ acceptance of food aid which may contain GMOs, strong African resistance to biotech crops and food, and Canada’s support for the US WTO complaint against the EU’s de facto moratorium on genetically modified food and crops, Pettigrew’s attack on anti-WTO protesters makes me wonder which planet he is from. His remarks are redolent of Bush’s recent cynical statements about the EU moratorium, and hunger and AIDS in Africa.
Then there is the fact that most of the African countries devastated with HIV/AIDS were not even invited to Montreal. Perhaps Pierre can speak on their behalf; he already seems to think that he can.
By contrast, the organising of the Montreal Popular Mobilization Against the WTO (see http://montreal.resist.ca) has its feet firmly on the ground, making the connections between local and global injustices, and local and global resistance. In rain and sunshine, around 2000 people marched through downtown Montreal on Sunday, on the eve of the official meeting, under the umbrella of No One Is Illegal. “We are marching together today in clear opposition to the WTO and its agenda of dispossession and displacement and displacement. This is a demonstration representing over eighty groups, and many more individuals, who are publicly and unabashedly declaring our solidarity with movements for self-determination, justice and dignity, at home and abroad.
We also march as a message of support and solidarity for our sisters and brothers in Latin America, who will converge in September to oppose the WTO in Cancun, Mexico”, reads a flyer for the march.
Raha mametraka ny tenany ho tompondakan'ny mahantra i Pettigrew amin'ny firotsahany ho an'ny varotra malalaka eo amin'ny fambolena, dia mbola nafindra toerana tamin'ny taniny ireo tantsaha madinika any atsimo ary voatosika ho any amin'ny fahantrana amin'ny alàlan'ny politika voasarona amin'ny dikan-teny vaovao mamirapiratra amin'ny fanjanahan-tany malalaka. tsena. Ny sasany amin'izy ireo dia miafara amin'ny maha-mpifindra monina sy mpitsoa-ponenana any amin'ny firenena toa an'i Canada.
The No One Is Illegal march brought together children and the elderly, and members of communities which are under attack within Canada and overseas. As it passed by corporate and government offices it highlighted the struggles of immigrants and refugees in Montreal like those who have fled Pakistan and Algeria and are now being detained and/or face deportation after their refugee claims have been rejected.
It highlighted the links between militarization, the occupation of Iraq, Palestine, and the continued colonial occupation of North America, and the interests of global capital. It was a festive and vibrant political space for people from different struggles to march together, talk, and celebrate their resistance to injustice and determination to create a better world.
Adopting the hallmarks of Peoples’ Global Action (http://www.agp.org), the Montreal Popular Mobilization Against the WTO is characterised by a clear and principled rejection of the WTO, capitalism, and imperialism in all of its forms, and decentralized organizing. As local activist Stefan Christoff puts it: “We’re for the WTO shutting down, period.” On a less-than-shoestring budget, this mobilization has helped to make the connections between a number of struggles at a local level, but also connected these with a bigger picture of the WTO and neoliberal globalization.
Raha tena miady tokoa isika mba handresy, ny tolona amin'ny fanatontoloana neoliberaly dia tsy maintsy miorina mafy amin'ny tolona isan'andro eo amin'ny fiaraha-monina misy antsika, ary mifototra amin'ny firindran'ny fiaraha-monina mafy orina, fa tsy miantehitra amin'ny fihaonambe ONG lehibe, ny sendikà na ny ONG sangany. , resaka manokana miaraka amin'ireo mpanao politika sy orinasa, na antontan-taratasy manjelanjelatra. Amin'ny fiatrehana mivantana ireo dingana sy ireo mpisehatra ao amin'ny vondrom-piarahamonina misy antsika izay manao ny tsy rariny dia afaka mamantatra sy mahatakatra tsara kokoa ny mekanika amin'ny kapitalisma manerantany sy ny fomba hanoherana azy ireo isika.
Tao anatin'ny ezaka ara-tsosialy somary mampalahelo, Pettigrew dia nanomana ny fakana sary miaraka amin'ny solontenan'ny ONG vitsivitsy ny alatsinainy maraina, tao anatin'ny andro iray natokana indrindra hihaonana amin'ny “fiarahamonina sivily” – ONG voafantina sy solontenan'ny orinasa. Mandritra izany fotoana izany, mitohy ny hetsika mivantana manohitra ny fivorian'ny WTO eny an-dalambe. Nosakanan'ny polisy ny diaben'ny fihetsiketsehana tamin'ny alatsinainy maraina ary avy eo dia nanao fisamborana faobe rehefa avy nanodidina ny “faritra maitso” – toerana azo antoka lavitra ny toeram-pivoriana.
Nanome toky ireo mpikarakara manohitra ny OMC fa hanohy hetsika mivantana izay mikendry ny hanakorontana ny fivoriana ofisialy mandra-pifarana ny alarobia tolakandro…mety amin'ny fotoana tokony handehanan'i Pierre ho any Downsview Park ao Toronto sy handoto ny alahelony miaraka amin'i Mick sy ireo zazalahy. Na dia ny fampiasan'ny tafika an'i Montréal sy ny famoretana ny fiarovana aza dia tsy afaka manery ny fahagagana izay tena ilain'ny mpiangaly ny WTO. N'aiza n'aiza misy antsika, andao ho azo antoka fa tsy mahazo fahafaham-po ireo mpivarotra malalaka eto amin'izao tontolo izao any Montréal, Cancun sy any ivelany.