* TRADE AGREEMENTS
     MAI: Multilateral Agreement on Investment
     APEC: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
     NAFTA : North American Free Trade Agreement


* GENERAL NEWS / COMMENTARY
     Nov 26/98: Indian farmers call for action against Monsanto
     Dec 01/97: Peoples' movements vs. 'free' trade & WTO
     Oct 25/97: US scientists reject Human Genome Diversity Project 


* RECOMMENDED READING

Text of Agreement
   * February 1998 draft (OECD MAI Negotiating Text)

        PDF format: http://www.oecd.org/daf/cmis/mai/maindex.htm
                    http://www.oecd.org/daf/cmis/mai/maitext.pdf

        Text format (unofficial formatting): approx. 270 KB
        http://web.uvic.ca/german/hendrik/mai-0298.txt
        http://www.interlog.com/~cjazz/mai.txt

   * October 1997 draft: 176 pages

Discussion, analysis, commentary
   * Mar 05/98: Report on MAI consultation with Maori 
   * Dec 01/97: No MAI - Haaere Atu!
   * Nov 12/97: NGO report on MAI 'consultation' in Paris
   * Nov 09/97: Transcript of radio discussion on MAI & Maori sovereignty
   * Nov 07/97: Transcript of TV discussion on MAI & Maori sovereignty
   * Jul / 97: 10 reasons to be concerned about the MAI; commentary


News / Updates
   * Nov 05/97: NZ government consults Maori on MAI
   * Nov 03/97: MAI hearings to be held in Ottawa

Links
   * MAI-Not!
      Main page: http://news.flora.org/flora.mai-not/
      Searchable index at http://search.dejanews.com/bg.xp?level=flora.mai-not;
        try keywords such as indigenous, aboriginal, native. 
      Library: http://mai.flora.org/library/
      List of MAI-Not! URLs: http://news.flora.org/flora.mai-not/3264
      Email: MAI-Not@flora.org

   * Canada Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade
      http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/
      The Canadian government's position on the MAI.

Discussion, analysis, commentary
   * Global Marketplace, Colonial Agendas
         - 1996 paper by GATT Watchdog activist Aziz Choudry. Placing
            national and global economics in the "context of the ongoing
            colonisation of Maori lands, lives, resources and futures".

   * APEC, Free Trade and "Economic Sovereignty"
         - Paper delivered in November, 1996 by GATT Watchdog
           representative Aziz Choudry, at conference in the Philippines
           prior to the Manila People's Forum on APEC. An excellent
           overview of global economic structures and colonialism.
           Particularly insightful in its critique of the use of the term
           "sovereignty" by colonial politicians and settler activists.

Resistance to APEC
   * "People's Apec": Two meetings, two views
         - Critique of 1995 NGO Forum on APEC held in Osaka, Japan.

   * Campaign against APEC Leaders Summit, November 25 - 28 1997

         Transcripts of hearings to investigate complaints of
         police brutality against APEC protestors

         Nov 11/97: Canada denies entry to anti-APEC delegates
         Sep 13/97: BC Premier - "Aboriginal people have huge potential"
         Sep 11/97: Indonesian leader may not attend APEC due to protests
         Aug / 97: Proposal for day of action during APEC

   * Groups fighting APEC

         APEC Alert: grassroots action to oppose APEC at UBC
         Email: alert@netinfo.ubc.ca
         WWW: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/fuller/apec_alert

         GATT Watchdog
         Email: gattwd@corso.ch.planet.gen.nz

         No to APEC!: Network Opposed to Anti-People Economic Control
         Email: notoapec@vcn.bc.ca
         WWW: http://www.carleton.ca/~shick/front.htm

Discussion, analysis, commentary
   * Sep 05/98: Tricky NAFTA 'First Nations' summit

Night-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain. Butch Lee and Red Rover. 1993: Vagabond Press, 496A Hudson St., Suite E14, New York, NY, USA 10014.

One of the best books around exploring the links between global economics and neo-colonialism/neo-liberalism.