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| Peace Boat's 39th voyage left Tokyo on Sep 1st 2002
and will return to Japan on December 9, 2002. We bring you here some
of the highlights of life at sea and on land segment by segment. |
| Dec 05 2002/Updated |
| Free Trade Area of the Americas Forum - Oct 23 to
28 |
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| Hernan Cortez, representative of the "Proceso
de Comunidades Negras" |
The second forum concerning Latin American issues
to be held on the 39th cruise took place between Cartagena and Callao,
and involved leaders of various social movements in Panama, Ecuador
and Colombia. The eleven representatives of ethnic minorities, farmers
organisations and environmental groups introduced their activities
before discussing the effects of globalisation on local cultures,
habitats and economies and the implications of the Free Trade Area
of the Americas (FTAA). One result of the forum was the decision to
set up a new group uniting people from different social movements
and regions to resist the FTAA, which they feel represents an extractive,
non-sustainable method of exploitation benefiting only the USA and
multi-national companies. Furthermore, the agreement threatens the
resource-rich land that Latin American peoples fought to reclaim from
colonialists, land that is closely connected to their lifestyle and
livelihoods, without which they fear the loss of their culture and
eventual disappearance of already beleaguered minority populations.
Members of the forum drew up a communique stating their unequivocal
rejection of the FTAA in its present form, and lodging a protest against
governmental decisions that give precedence to economic interests
over the long-term needs of the people. After disembarking, a delegation
went to Ecuador, where a Ministerial Meeting on the FTAA is currently
underway, to present the statement to the alternative forums taking
place concurrently in Quito. |
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| What's New? |
*Ocr 22
--Colombian Women's Forum
*Oct 23
--Port of Call - Cartagena de Indias -
Colombia
*Oct 24
--Panama Canal
*Oct 25
--Nationalism, Japanese Identity, Ethnic
conflict - Eiji Oguma
--Immigration, Tradition and Conflict in
Peru - Juan Tokeshi
*Oct 26
--International Student Program - Pilar
Chavez - Colombia
--What is the US up to in the world today?
- Charles Overby
--Peace Appeal
--Creating a Town From Slums - Villa el
Salvador - Juan Tokeshi
*Oct 27
--Global University Unit Report - Migration
--Global University Unit Two Report -Development
and NGO's
*Oct 28
--Free Trade Area of the Americas Forum
--Article 9: Humanity's Hope - Charles
Overby
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*Sep 1
--Departure!
*Sep 3
--Lecture - Live, Study and Play around
the World - Peace Boat Staff
*Sep 4
--Lecture - Cultural Exchange, Japan and
the Philippines - Rey Ventura
*Sep 5
--Lecture - The Philippines, Music, History
and More! - Rey Ventura and Kazuma Momoi
*Sep 7
--Port of Call - Manila
*Sep 9
--Lecture - Who are the International Students?
*Sep 10
--Special Event - September 11th Memorial
*Sep 11
--Port of Call - Singapore
*Sep 12
--Profile - Global English Training (GET)
Program
--Kanae Doi - Afghan refugees
--Kazuo Goto - on U.S. Justice
*Sep 14
--Ved Bhasin - The Kashmir Conflict
*Sep 16
--Press conference - Cochin, India
*Sep 17
--Port of Call-Cochin
*Sep 19
--International Student Program - Saptarshi
and Zainab
*Sep 21
--Summer Festival
*Sep 22
--Kazuo Goto - What does Patriotism mean
to you?
*Sep 23
--Port of Call - Massawa
*Sep 25
--Languages Onboard
*Sep 26
--Emin, Jasmina and Zainab - A look at
three Islamic societies
--International Student Presentation -
Walid and Uri
*Sep 28
--Port of Call - Suez Said
*Oct 2
--Port of Call - Istanbul
*Oct 3
--Jasna Bastic - War in Former Yugoslavia,
Propaganda and the Media
*Oct 7
--Port of Call - Marseilles
*Oct 8
--Goran Vezic - Freedom of Speech Radio
Boat
--Passage through the Mediterranean
*Oct 9
--Amit Mashiah - A History of Peace in
the Middle East
*Oct 10
--Dancing onboard
--Cafe Clandestino
--GET Program - Language Olympics
*Oct 11
--Port of Call - Las Palmas
*Oct 13
--Otomatsuri
*Oct 15
--Ryuhei Kobayashi - The Galapagos Islands
--Approaching Latin America
--Pilar Chavez - Mangroves, shrimp and
economic independence
*Oct 16
--Ryuhei Kobayashi and Takayoshi Fukuyo
- From Che Guevara to the Cuban Model
*Oct 17
--Sports Day
--Arts and Crafts Exhibition
*Oct 19
--Salsa Night
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