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[Fwd: WTO: FW: Briefing on AFL-CIO Campaign for Global Fairness]

by christopher chase-dunn

28 February 2000 18:37 UTC





Is anything missing from the executive council's plans. . . ? 

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To:     global economy network
Subject:        Briefing on AFL-CIO Campaign for Global Fairness
Importance:     High

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global economy network
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February 25, 2000

Below you will find an important communication from AFL-CIO President John
Sweeney inviting friends and allies to a special briefing on the AFL-CIO's
new Campaign for Global Fairness.

These email communications from the Campaign for America's Future are
designed to share information with a wide array of leaders and organizations
on the important debates and political battles that will shape the rules of
the global economy in the new century.


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To:     Friends and Allies
National Union Legislative, Political, Policy, Education, Field,
International Affairs, and Communications Directors and General Counsels

From:           John J. Sweeney, President AFL-CIO

Date:           February 24, 2000

Re:     Briefing on AFL-CIO Campaign for Global Fairness and New Hart 
Research
Survey on Voters' Attitudes Toward Trade


When working families and our unions, people of faith, environmentalists,
students and human rights activists came together at the World Trade
Organization meeting in Seattle to speak out against a global economic
system which has widened rather than closed the income gap and poisoned our
environment, we made history.  Together, we have shifted the debate about
globalization from a top-level, back room debate to a wide-open, national
conversation about how to make the global economy work for everyone.

At our Executive Council meeting in New Orleans last week, the AFL-CIO
launched a major new multi-year campaign for global fairness to build on the
energy of Seattle.  The campaign includes four tracks:  broad-based
education, fighting for workers' rights in the international economy,
building global solidarity with working families in developing nations, and
holding multinational corporations accountable.

I would like to invite you to attend a briefing on our campaign and the
results of a new national survey by Peter Hart Research of registered
voters' attitudes toward granting China permanent normal trade relations - a
fight that is in the forefront of our broader campaign.  We'd like to share
our plans with you and hear your thoughts.  The briefing will be held on
Thursday, March 2 from 1-2:30 p.m. at the AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street, NW.

Please call Alina Smith at 202/637-5005 to RSVP.

We look forward to seeing you next Thursday.




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