From: Lisa Hoyos lhoyos@citizen.org
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003

Subject: key labor endorsed fair trade actions in Sacramento

 Dear Comrades,

 Please read and then distribute this invitation from the Sacramento
 Central Labor Council to participate in important Fair Trade actions
 happening next week in Sacramento. Attached is the formatted letter from
 the Sacramento CLC, the schedule of events for the week, and a
 informational flyers called "End Sweatshops in the Fields"  for faxing
 or handing out at labor meetings this week.

 Lisa Hoyos

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 Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Labor Movement,

 On June 23-25 in Sacramento, the Bush Administration and agribusiness
 corporations are hosting a conference and technology expo with trade and
 agriculture ministers from over 170 countries around the world.  We at
 the Sacramento Central Labor Council have endorsed a broad-based counter
 mobilization to protest corporate agriculture, industrial food
 production, and free trade policies that are undermining workers'
 rights, destroying sustainable family agriculture, and harming the
 health of farm workers and industrial workers here in California and
 around the world.

 Please join us for five days of education and action to promote our
 agenda of safe sustainable communities, healthy food, workers' rights,
 sustainable agriculture and fair trade. Please endorse our mobilization,
 send out the attached call to action and list of events to your members,
 and send a delegation with your banner to our mass rally and march next
 Monday, June 23, 10am at the Capitol in Sacramento.

 Now, more than ever, a united global movement for social, economic and
 environmental justice is needed in the fight for a democratic economic
 system that improves, instead of erodes, the well being of workers and
 communities.  Brothers and sisters representing mass movements in
 Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and North America will be joining
 us in Sacramento.  We hope that the Labor Movement in California will
 also have a strong showing.  Please do all you can in the next week to
 spread the word.

 Please let Teresa Villasenor from our office know if you can
 participate. We would like our labor delegation to march together. If
 you have any questions, please call me at 916-927-9772.  We'll see you
 in the streets of Sacramento!

 In Solidarity,

 Bill Camp
 Executive Secretary
 Sacramento Central Labor Council

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Mobilization for Food Sovereignty, Democracy and Justice

SACRAMENTO CONVERGENCE SCHEDULE, JUNE 20-25

 FRIDAY JUNE 20
 Sunrise Ceremony - National day of prayer called by Northern California
 Native Tribes. One hour before sunrise at the Sacramento State Capitol.

 SATURDAY JUNE 21
 11am-6:30pm: Teach-in "Food, Global Justice, and Corporate Power:
 Reclaiming our Forests, Farms, and Future." University Union, CSU
 Sacramento 6000 J. Street.

 SUNDAY JUNE 22
 Ministers arrive in Sacramento, reception and 3D film at IMAX theatre.
 Corporate reps set up expo

 10am - 4pm: Organic Food Fair and Family Festival!
 Land Park (at Sutterville and Land Park) Bring the whole
 family...Yippee!

 NON-VIOLENT DIRECT ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE, FOOD, FARMS, AND FORESTS!

 2pm: Teach in on community gardening and urban agriculture as a
 community based alternative to industrial agriculture presented by the
 Sacramento Area Community Garden Coalition.

 St. John's Lutheran Church 1701 L Street

 MONDAY JUNE 23
 5:30 pm: Corporate trade expo grand opening, ribbon cutting, and
 reception, Sacramento Memorial Auditorium

 MASS NON-VIOLENT DIRECT ACTION locations TBA
 theme based: corporate greed, US Empire, Inc, earth and life

 10am: STREET FESTIVITIES, MUSIC, ARTS, and RALLY! for real food
 sovereignty at home and around the world! International speakers, Bill
 Camp (Sacramento Central Labor Council) Percy Schmeiser, Anuradha
 Mittal, and more!

 West steps of the Capitol Building, downtown Sacramento

 1pm: MARCH through downtown Sacramento in protest of the ministerial!

 7pm:  Debate on biotech agriculture: Global South activists vs. USDA.
 Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street

 TUESDAY JUNE 24
 4pm: Public Citizen Roundtable on Free Trade, Food Irradiation, and the
 Future of Agriculture. St John's Lutheran Church, 1701 L Street

 USDA closing plenary reception hosted by Secretary Ann Veneman

 9pm: Liberty Cabbage Theatre Revival presents "Oiligarchy" Puppetry,
 poetry and performance about petroleum: it's origins, alternatives, and
 ties to war! Location TBA

 WEDNESDAY JUNE 25
 Ministers take field trips to Central Valley farms and UC DAVIS biotech
 lab

 Spokescouncil meetings every night at 7pm, locations TBA.