EU Union support for OCAW/Unocal pr

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Subject: EU Union support for OCAW/Unocal protest

The EU decision against GSP for Slorc presents an opportunity following
up this posting by <gijsh@xxxxxxxxx (Gijs Hillenius> to forward an
initiative --  if it is not already in the process of realisation, that
the UNOCAL- OCAW obtains the support of the International Confederation
of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the European Tradeunions for the OCAW 3
Days for Burma protest against the UNOCAL/TOTAL pipeline.

This is most badly needed to pressure the French government to rethink
 its support for the TOTAL pipeline (the French state is over a 10 % 
shareholder.

Support from union groups in other European countries to the OCAW
initiative should now be enlisted and confirmed. If anyone is working on
this, they should of course, if not already, be in touch with 
joe drexler, special projects director, ocaw, <umwajd@xxxxxxx>, and
please forward progress reports here, to paris. 

The TOTAL SA  Paris headquarters' annual shareholder meeting will take
place late May. It has been moved up since last year's June 4 meeting
when TOTAL's role in the pipeline tragedy was openly exposed and
challenged by EuroBurmanet.

metta,
dawnstar 
WORLDWIDE TOTALBOYCOTT
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/total/

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> EU takes trade profits away from Burma
> 
> Translated from Dutch by the BCN (Burma Centrum Nederland)
> 
> Brussels (ANP) - The European Union decidde on Monday to withdraw trade
> preferences for Burma in protest to the use of Forced Labour. The minister of
> Foreign Affairs decided on advise from the European Commission to withdraw for
> now the import-tariffs on agricultural- and industrial products from Burma.
> The commission reacted with this to an urgent appeal by the International
> Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the European Tradeunions.
> The Burmese regime has always denied the complaints. Buddist traditions
> would according to the regime allow forced labour.
> 
> ANP 241230 mrt 97