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On December 10th, White Band Day 3, millions of people will unite in solidarity against trade injustice. Join the largest anti-poverty campaign in history and help us put the Spotlight on Trade Injustice. We need the World Trade Organization to deliver a fair deal on trade and agriculture. For events being held in Africa, please follow the link.

Kenya

White Band Day 3 - Make Trade Fair for Promotion of Coffee Farming, Mutituni to Machakos town walk, Eastern Province. Kenya The campaign will focus on promotion of Coffee farming in 1/4 of the Eastern Province.
The campaign will demand provision of Adjustment Assistance to industries to cope with increased import competition resulting from trade distortion. Demand poor countries access to rich countries market assistance and fair trade development.

The event will be marked by a walk from Mutituni to Machakos Technical College, music band slogans posters, youth voice and a public rally. Speakers will include Coffee cooperatives and farmeers.T-shirts will be used. For further Information contact Grace Mulei [email protected] or 720 821 472.

On December 7 and 8 ActionAid International (Kenya) will host a Pre-Hong Kong Meeting for Cotton Farmers in Africa to be held at the Pan Africa hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The Sixth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference is scheduled to take place from 13th - 18th December 2005 in Hong Kong. It is expected that fundamental issues with far reaching implications on the development of African agriculture are going to be part of the agenda for discussion. All sub-sectors in agriculture are going to be affected in one way or the other by decisions to be made during this crucial and important conference. One such sub-sector at the heart of most African farmers is cotton which is an important element of the on-going negotiations in agriculture. In view of the above, ActionAid International Kenya will be organizing a meeting in Nairobi whose overriding goal is to mobilize cotton producers from around Africa to voice out their concerns ahead of the forthcoming WTO meeting. The outcome of the meeting will be presented to the delegates attending the WTO meeting for advocacy and lobbying purposes during the Ministerial conference. Cotton farmers who want to participate should contact: Southern Africa: Wole Olaleye - [email protected], West Africa: Moussa Faye - [email protected], East Africa: Njeri Kinyoho - [email protected].

The Kenyan coalition will also organise an action in Uchumi Supermarkets in Nairobi, Meru, Nakuru and Eldoret, who have agreed to exhibit campaign demands and sell white beads and share the profit among poor workers groups. There will also be seven public education tents in Nairobi with banners and brochures on Trade Justice and campaigners will collect signatures for a petition. White Band Day 3 will also be featured in adverts and spots on the radio to publicize the campaign. For more details contact Achim Chaiji Tel. 254-20-4440440/4 cell phone. 254-722-331612,

Liberia

White Band Day, Tubmanburg, Bomi, Liberia
March with 300 primary school students, aged 5yrs-12yrs through the principle streeths of Tubmanburg, UNMIL sector 2HQ ,hang a banner at the entrance of the town Eric Zinnah Community Elementary School, Tubmanburg, Bomi Country, Liberia.

For more details, contact Mambu Manyeh [email protected] or 00231-4-780323.

Mali

In Mali campaigners will launch a report on the privitization of the CMDT and the GMOs, with radio testimonies on poverty. Also the campaign will hand their petition over to then Malian Prime Minister before he goes to the WTO. For more details, contact Mme Barry Aminata Touré, Présidente CAD-Mali

Tel 00 223 224 01 34 / 00 223 672 05 25 [email protected].

Sierra Leone

A GCAP Sierra Leone group will meet with the the Ministry of Trade and Industry Officials, the Parliamentary Committee on Trade and members of the Sierra Leone Delegates to the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial to talk about trade justice and share how trade issues negatively impact working men and women. The Symposium on Trade Issues will bring together all stakeholders including the media, government functionaries, the private sector, farmers, CSOs, and the general public to critically
examine and discuss trade and other related issues and on how these issues are impacting on the people of Sierra Leone. Mohamed Sillah - Tel: +232-22-231392/232246/234197 Cell phone: +232-76-830071 [email protected].

The Gambia

The campaign will hold a youth forum on trade justice and the impact of WTO rules on the ordinary Gambian and the Gambian economy. Young people will also send e-mails to The Gambian Official delegation before they leave for Hong Kong and to their parliamentarians. For more details, contact Buba Khan [email protected].

Zambia

Three events have been lined up towards the 10th of December. We will have a television interview on Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) to launch our events on Tuesday, the 6th of December, 2005. The launch will be followed by a Special Interview with Zambia's Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry - Honourable Dipak Patel. We would like to extend an invitation to you all to present or write questions that you would like us to address to Dipak. The climax of our events will be on the 9th of December when we shall hold a walk and an Inter-Faith Rally.

1. Media: we will have three media events from Tuesday, the 6th of December to the 9th. The media events include one radio programme on Radio Ichengelo, one television programme on ZNBC and a Press Receiption on the eve of the main event - 8th December. A number of media actors have been mobilized from both the print and the electronic media. We will also provide a MIN DV and VHS package for Hong KONG and as part of our records.

2. Interview with Dipak Patel: The interview will take place on Thursday, the 8th of December at 10:00am - Zambian time. The interview will be divided into two parts, the first segment will focus on Zambia specific issues while the second part will look at the LDCs and other global issues. The interview will last for 45 minutes. We encourage you to participate in this interview by sending your questions to me using the below email; Email: Henry Malumo [email protected] or Call me on 260 97 656832. We are willing to avail the video to any of you before the close of day on Thursday. In Zambia, we intend to run this video three or four times as a build up advocacy event. Our humble position to our leader is, 'We are behind you and we will be watching you as you support Trade Justice.'

3. Mass demonstrations: The event will be held in Kitwe, the hub of the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. Due to privatization and closure of Industries, a number of people on the Copperbelt have seen a lot of untold misery and sufferings. We would like to draw the attention of our leaders to misery of the Zambian people due to export driven economies that drive women crazy! Our walk and Inter-Faith Rally will bring together four main themes namely, Lesson for Life, HIV/AIDS, Gender, Human Rights and Trade. NOTE: The events were initially planned for Saturday, the 10th of December, 2005 but the date has been set for national wide protest in demand for a new constitution before 2006 elections. As a result we had to move our events to the 9th of December.

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