P ANELS AND S PEAKERS FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JUNE 29-30 ROBERT GROSSMAN (from Brill's Content, Sept.1999) Top: Andy Donato, Dick Locher and Hy Rosen kicked off Satarday's-s-essionswith-H-FirectoTRetirett-NavtgatirTg-the Climax of Your Career." Above: Columnist and Hardball host Chris Matthews spoke on the 2000 election, the unexpected change of power in the Senate and President R.C. HARVEY Bush's image problems at the banquet. Right: Dr. Alan Blum of the University of Alabama's Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society gave a slide show of cartoons relating to smoking and smoking-related lawsuits. Below left: Lalo Alcaraz and John Kovalic joined Ted Rall to talk about their experiences creating and publishing graphic novels. Below center and right: Michael Ramirez and Ben Sargent rounded out the trio of cartoonists demonstrating "the Art of ______ Makiog...Pu.bJjc_Er_esentai ioos.._" _ October 2001 Page 27 Officers and, perhaps, gentlemen: President David Horsey, president-elect Scott Stantis and V.P. Ann Telnaes at the Saturday banquet; Mark Fiore, Ted Rall, Mike Ritter and J.P. Trostle enjoying an Ontario heat wave rations can ride roughshod over a democratic" clauses. "The press said many of these jobs are low­ country's environmental and safety reads summaries and memos," paying and temporary. regulations, and eliminate well-pay­ Nader observed. ing jobs in one country and hire Anti-Smoking Advocate low-wage workers in another. He Conversation added that "supra-governmental" About Globalization In another session, Alan Blum bodies such as the World Trade said there have been many anti­ Organization meet in secret, with no Before Nader spoke, Los Ange­ smoking cartoons during the past press allowed. les Times reporter Evelyn Iritani decade as public disgust with to­ The speaker said few journal­ moderated a globalization session bacco has grown. The director of ists or members of Congress bother that "will help us in our cartoons the University of Alabama Center to peruse the full text of trade in the days to come," said Horsey. for the Study of Tobacco and Soci­ agreements, which include "anti- One panelist, former Canadian ety showed examples from his col­ Finance Minister Mike Wilson, sup­ lection of 1,250 such cartoons - in­ ports free trade between his coun­ cluding one, by Rex Babin of The try and the United States. "This has Sacramento Bee, picturing been very good for Canada," he Washington's Capitol Building as a said, noting, for instance, that big cigarette lighter. Canada's exports to the States are Blum said ridicule is an impor­ growing slightly faster than imports tant weapon in the fight against from its neighbor. smoking. "These guys [the tobacco But Ed Broadbent, former industry] need to be laughed at," leader of Canada's New Democratic he commented. Party, said he's troubled by various aspects of globalization - includ­ Hearing From "Hardball" ing a rise in foreign takeovers of Canadian firms and a clause in the AAECers also heard from Chris North American Free Trade Agree­ Matthews, the San Francisco ment (NAFTA) that allows multina­ Chronicle/'Newspaper Enterprise tional corporations to sue govern­ Association columnist who hosts ments. "I want [the private sector] MSNBC's Hardball show. He said to be the servant of society, not the Bush doesn't speak enough to the master of society," he said. media and Americans in general, Wilson countered that this and that it's good for talk-show clause is necessary to protect cor­ hosts to have a writing background porate investment that brings because it gives them "discipline" "technological know-how" and jobs and the ability to "think things to countries. But Deborah Bourque, through .... I don't think you should Host Andy Donato with Dick national vice president of the Ca­ be allowed on television unless you Locher at the cartoon exhibit nadian Union of Postal Workers, can write." October 2001 Page 21 .