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Sri Lanka Pugwash Group

WTO, GLOBALIZATION and EPPAWALA, after SEATTLE
A collection of essays - compiled by D.L.O. Mendis

Dedication iii
Acknowledgements iv
List of Illustrations vii
List of Figures viii
Authors - IFG Brains Trust ix
Preamble
November 30, 1999 in Seattle - Paul Hawken xxi
Preface A View from Seattle - Bruce Herbert xliv
Foreword

The Post Corporation World: Life After Capitalism - David Korten
(Including Box: Making Money, Becoming Poor)
liv

Introduction



WTO, Globalization and Eppawala, after Seattle - D.L.O. Mendis
(Boxes - TWN/KRRS Resolution and Keynote Speech by Mohamed Idris at TWN/KRRS Farmer's Rally, Bangalore, 1993. Annex: Press Releases, National Alliance of Peoples Movements)
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Part I Run up to Seattle: Program of Events 27
Chapter 1 The World Trade Organization - Inside and Outside Views
36
Chapter 2 WTO's Slow-motion Coup against Democracy - Interview with Lori Wallach 58
Chapter 3 WTO and the Third World - Interview with Martin Khor 70
Chapter 4

The Threat of International Trade and Investment Agreements - NAFTA and the Canadian Experience - Maude Barlow
83

Chapter 5 The Global Economy - Can it be Fixed? - David Korten
112
Annex 1 Vandana Shiva's 1999 letters to Multinational Corporations engaged in Biopiracy in India 126
Part II Seattle, November/December 1999: IFG Teach-in Program
143
Chapter 6 More Steamrollering of South at Seattle - Chakravarthi Raghavan
147
Chapter 7 Alternatives to Globalization - IFG 162
Chapter 8 Eight Myths of Globalization - IFG
180
Chapter 9 Impact of Globalization: Everything for Sale - Maude Barlow
189
Chapter 10 Whose Trade Organisation ? - Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza
196
Annex 2

Post Seattle events: IFG MEMORANDUM - Jerry Mander and Debi Barker, and Seattle City Council Accountability Review Committee.
212

Part III
Natural Capitalism - its significance for sustainable development in Sri Lanka
237
Chapter 11

Hydraulic Civilizations, Irrigation Ecosystems, and the Modern State: Professor E.O.E. Pereira Commemoration Lecture, 1989 - D.L.O. Mendis
242

Chapter 12

Eppawala: Contribution to Nutrient Flows in the Ancient Aquatic Ecosystems of Rajarata - Ivan Amerasinghe
275

Chapter 13

Eppawala: Heart of the Ancient Kalaweva-Jayaganga Cultural Landscape of Rajarata - Caesar Voute
291

Chapter 14

Eppawala and Seattle, with Annex: Report to the TOMEN Corporation of Japan on Eppawala - Jonathan Walters
304

Chapter 15

Privatisation of Water - Maude Barlow; Privatization trends in Sri Lanka - D.L.O. Mendis; and Press Releases on Medha Patkar's anti-WTO Rally in Narmada, India
328

Annex 3 Eppawala: Book Review - Dipak Giyawali
345
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