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MONDAY, SEPT. 26 to TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 2011 VOLUME 106 ISSUE 26
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Anti-APEC organizations publicize negative effects
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Chanting “ Apec sucks,” demonstrators against the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation march around campus Friday, Sept. 23. E VELYN A SCHENBRENNER Contributing Writer Many University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa students walk by the APEC banner at the University Avenue and Dole Street intersection, but they might not know what the group is about, and that not everyone in the community supports it. APEC, which stands for AsiaPacifi c Economic Cooperation, is an organization of 21 countries that meet yearly to discuss and promote certain economic and trade policies. This year, they’re meeting in Honolulu in mid-November. The effects of these poli-
cies, however, are being protested by several groups across campus. “At this stage, we’re educating people about the negative effects of APEC policy before the leaders come in November,” said Nandita Sharma, an ethnic studies and sociology professor and member of activist group Eating in Public. “Our main goal is educational.” Last Friday, an information fair was held at Campus Center, followed by an anti-APEC march across campus. Organized by World Can’t Wait, the approximately 15-member march included representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union, Revolution
Books and Eating in Public, a collective whose mission is to establish common areas within the capitalist/state regime, such as community gardens. “There’s no accountability in the process,” said Gaye Chan about APEC’s mission. Chan is chair of the art and art history department at UH and a member of Eating in Public. “They speak to their corporate leaders about how to create more profit for corporations.” According to pamphlets titled “APEC SUCKS,” which were passed out at the information fair, APEC uses the term “free trade” as a code word for “policies that
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give imperialist powers and multinational corporations the ‘right’ to go into oppressed countries and take out whatever they want, with as few restrictions as possible.” “It creates unemployment and poverty, or an agenda that puts large government fi rst, [and] that goes against indigenous rights,” said Shane Lee, a UH senior in legal studies who was browsing the information fair. “I’m interested in social justice issues,” said Hector Valenzuela, a UH agricultural professor who took part in the march. “And this is
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