SAYING NO TO A EURO STATE

I HAVE started a national petition, which I will hand in to 10 Downing Street on

November 11, telling Tony Blair that we, the people of Britain, do not want him to sign the Treaty in France, in December 2000.

This Treaty will lock Britain forever, into a European Superstate.

The British people who sign the petition will be saying NO to Mr Blair giving away their right to be a self governing country. They will be saying they do not want to be a part of a United States of Europe with a constitution which will override our own laws.

No, to a common foreign policy with the creation of a common EU army and the creation of a European police force.

No, to losing the right to get our own taxes which will be harmonised with those of other European countries.

The signing of this Treaty will also spell the end of a national veto, so Britain will be powerless to stop any new proposals from Brussels.

Anyone who would like a blank petition form(s) can write to me at 21 Redland Lane, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3QA, sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

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Organization of American States Meeting
Triggers Protester-Police Face-Off

These last few weeks, we have noticed a lot of emphasis on the Mexico border on Fox News. There is apparently a war going on between farmers trying to protect their properties from illegal immigrant Mexicans. The farmers are taking matters in their own hands because there is not enough protection from the government. The news has been airing the problems steadily. What is disconcerting, the media brings on officials who state that we should let them just come into the country and take care of them like any other immigrants without going through the regular channels of waiting periods and the usual procedure. One of them stated that some 20 million have already come into the country. There are lots of jobs that are not filled waiting for them. It reminds me of the Pope's promises when he visited Mexico. We followed his sermons and the promise was that the walls would come down.

WINDSOR, Ontario, Canada, June 2, 2000 (ENS) - The Organization of American States (OAS) is opening its 30th General Assembly here on Sunday, a meeting that will further plans for a free trade agreement to
encompass the entire Western hemisphere. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the OAS represents 34 nations from Canada in the north to Chile in the south.

The meeting at Windsor's Cleary International Centre will be chaired by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axeworthy. It is taking centre stage in this city of 262,000 directly across the river from Detroit, Michigan. Peter Boehm, Canada's Permanent Ambassador to the Organization of American States, wears an OAS t-shirt.

The OAS foreign ministers have other issues on the agenda besides the Free Trade Area of the Americas - everything from the legality of recent elections in Peru to human security, "protecting people from threats to their rights, their safety and their lives," according to the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

But free trade is the issue of greatest importance to a newly formed coalition of organized labor, environmentalists, human rights activists and students - aside from the issue of their own security on the streets of Windsor and
Detroit.

The critics fear the free trade agreement will weaken protection of the environment and export jobs out of the United States and Canada to Latin American countries where wages are low and environmental safeguards are
weak.

Aurita Withers, a writer published on the OAS Shutdown Coalition website, writes, "The FTAA [Free Trade Area of the Americas] is an agreement designed to help fuel capitalism. Capitalism and environmental protection are
directly contradictory as capitalism must exploit and destroy to survive. Unlimited economic growth is impossible in a finite ecological system."Full Story: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jun2000/2000L-06-02-01.html

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