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To: International Civil Society From: WTO "Watch List" (published by Mexican national security) Sixty international activists (see the US list below) were named recently by Mexico's national security apparatus as "globalophobic leaders" in a not-so-secret document leaked to La Reforma newspaper. Mexico's Federal Preventative Police, the Army and several other security forces are apparently concerned about our participation in alternative conferences and demonstrations in Cancun during the September 10-14 WTO Ministerial. While it is a dubious honor that our work has been recognized, we are concerned that millions of people throughout the world who are also opposed to the WTO are NOT named on the "watch list." Do you feel left out? If so, send a message to the Mexican Embassy or Consulate in your area. We take the liberty of suggesting the following language. (You can also email your name to [email protected] and we'll add you to a collective sign-on letter.) Dear Government Agents Bent on Restricting Civil Liberties, I recently found out about the "watch list" prepared by Mexican authorities, purportedly to quell the voice of civil society at the upcoming WTO Ministerial in Cancun. Despite hefty expenditures of tax money on intelligence gathering (both Mexican pesos and US dollars, some of which, we are confident, find their way to Mexico's security forces!), we are concerned that you were only able to find 60 internationals and 20 Mexicans who are opposed to the World Trade Organization. Haven't you noticed that the tide of public opinion is turning decidedly against the WTO? Don't you remember the WTO Ministerial in Seattle, when over 50,000 workers, students and environmentalists brought the meeting to a halt? Please add my name to your "watch list" immediately!! Nothing less is acceptable in a true democracy. Or perhaps that's the point. After all, the WTO is one of the least democratic organizations in the world. Corporate members of America's Business Forum write the trade rules, while security forces spend our tax money keeping people like myself as far from the process as possible. If you are unwilling to add my name to the list, then I must insist that you remove those singled out for special attention. I can assure you that we have similar views - we are all opposed to the WTO and a "free" trade agenda that impoverish the majority of us while enriching a few corporations. And I can also assure you that repressive measures directed against these few will have little impact in Cancun. Thousands of us will be in Cancun, representing millions around the world. Our collective voices will say NO to the WTO. A better world is possible. PS Perhaps the funds that were used so ineffectively for intelligence gathering could be mobilized instead so that the Mexican government can comply with its commitments in the National Agreement on the Rural Crisis, signed recently by El Campo No Aguanta Mas and the Fox administration. Since WTO policies helped cause the rural crisis in the first place, it would only be just. We would be happy to see the portion provided by US security forces spent on programs for campesino corn producers. But check with the corn producers first ? they might not want ?dirty? money. Sincerely, Mexico's "watch list" includes (In Spanish): 'Moderados' Barbara Stocking - Directora de Oxfam Gran Breta�a - Integrante de la Junta de Directores del Humanitarian Accountability Project - Ex funcionaria de la Organizaci�n Mundial de la Salud - Ex directiva del Servicio Nacional de Salud del Reino Unido Osvaldo Mart�nez - 59 a�os - Economista - Ex Ministro de Econom�a y Planificaci�n de Cuba y ex representante de ese pa�s ante el Consejo Econ�mico y Social de Naciones Unidas. - Presidente de la Comisi�n Permanente de Asuntos Econ�micos de la Asamblea Nacional de Cuba. - Director del Centro de Investigaci�n de la Econom�a Mundial Ralph Nader - 69 a�os - Graduado en Leyes en Harvard. - En 1965 public� el best seller "Inseguridad a cualquier velocidad: Peligros en el dise�o de los autom�viles americanos". En 1971 fund� Public Citizen, una de las organizaciones de consumidores m�s influyentes de EU. Stanley Gacek - Abogado laboral. - Director asistente de Asuntos Internacionales de la AFL-CIO, la central sindical m�s importante de Estados Unidos. Responsable de las relaciones con Am�rica Latina. - Amigo de Lula da Silva desde hace 30 a�os. Noam Chomsky - 75 a�os - Profesor de Ling��stica en el Instituto Tecnol�gico de Massachusetts (MIT). Opositor a la guerra de Vietnam y cr�tico de la pol�tica exterior de Estados Unidos desde mediados de los 60, es considerado una de los intelectuales progresistas m�s influyentes de EU. 'Ultras' Blanca Chancoso - 48 a�os - Maestra - Dirigente de la Confederaci�n de Nacionalidades Ind�genas del Ecuador y del movimiento Pachakutik. - Jugo un papel clave en la alianza que derroc� al Presidente Jamil Mahuad en el 2000. David Albertsen - Integrante de Global Roots, organizaci�n promotora de la desobediencia civil y que particip� activamente en las protestas durante la Cumbre de la Uni�n Europea en Copenhague, el a�o pasado. Federico Mariani - 41 a�os - L�der de la Asociaci�n Ya Basta. Encabez� al grupo de "monos blancos" que se hicieron cargo de la seguridad de la Comandancia del EZLN durante su marcha a la Ciudad de M�xico De cuatro continentes La lista de "globalif�bicos" a los que dan seguimiento las autoridades mexicanas incluye a estadounidenses, canadienses, latinoamericanos, europeos, africanos y asi�ticos. Estados Unidos Lori Wallach - Director de Global Trade Watch V�ctor Menotti -Director del Programa Ambiental del Foro Internacional sobre Globalizaci�n Peter Rosset - Director de Food First John Sellers - Director de The Ruckus Society Howard Camson - The Ruckus Society John Kinsman - Presidente de Family Farm Defenders Michael Hart - Profesor de la Universidad de Duke Peter Larsen Hazie Stenders Lynn Mare Thomas Hansen Canad� Maude Barlow - Presidenta del Consejo de los Canadienses Diane Matte - Dirigente de la Federaci�n de Mujeres de Queb�c. Naomi Klein - Periodista, autora del libro No Logo. Honduras Rafael Alegr�a - Diputado y l�der campesino. Secretario de Operaciones Internacionales de V�a Campesina Brasil Salvador Cabral Rafael Fresne - Miembros de la Central Unica de Trabajadores (CUT) Chile Alicia Mu�oz - Presidenta de la Asociaci�n Nacional de Mujeres Rurales e Ind�genas (Anamuri) Italia Tiziana Valpiana - Diputada. Visit� Chiapas en el 2000 con una delegaci�n de parlamentarios. Toni Negri -Fil�sofo. Bajo arresto en Italia, tras 14 a�os de exilio en Francia. Gianluigi Fulvio Francia Ignacio Ramonet - Presidente de Le Monde Diplomatique Bernard Cassen - Director general de Le Monde Diplomatique, cofundador de ATTAC Christophe Agillon - Miembro de ATTAC Viviane Forrester - Novelista. Helen Rences Espa�a Carlos Taibo -Profesor de Ciencia Pol�tica en la Universidad Aut�noma de Madrid. Rodolfo Izal Elorz - Ex p�rroco en Chiapas. I�aki Garc�a Koch - Ecologista vasco. 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