Stakes, obstacles significant at Miami hemispheric summit

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sun, Nov. 09, 2003

FREE-TRADE TALKS
Stakes, obstacles significant at Miami hemispheric summit
Trade ministers will seek to fashion an accord out of discord and create a free-trade zone for the Americas -- and the challenge is daunting.
BY JANE BUSSEY
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CARL CIRA, director of the Summit of the Americas Center at Florida International University

AND GREGG FIELDS

Miami rolls out the red carpet next week for an international gathering of trade luminaries responsible for charting the creation of a free-trade zone that would cover the New World.

Converging at this pivotal moment for the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas will be trade ministers representing 34 nations, along with hundreds of aides and as many as 1,000 business executives, academics and analysts.

Also expected are an estimated 20,000 protesters: environmentalists, trade-union members, consumer activists and students -- many of them seasoned veterans of the antiglobalization fight.

Miami police also predict the arrival of groups that are more radical, but these organizations rarely announce their plans. (snip/...)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/7216795.htm


Miami, in the NEW WORLD! Wooooooooooooo.

[DUreader]

1. Some activist links

http://www.ftaaimc.org


http://www.stopftaa.org


http://www.citizenstradecampaign.org


http://www.mediamouse.org/fcaa


http://www.vala.cc/alachua/links.html

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2. kick