From: bb+assocs.pwr-usas.lists@andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 00:04:24 EDT
various students in pittsburgh, at carnegie mellon and
the university of pittsburgh, along with other activists
are holding a solidarity march against the FTAA on
the 27th.
for more info:
http://www.organizepittsburgh.org
http://www.indypgh.org for post-demo coverage
matt toups
carnegie mellon university
mtoups@andrew.cmu.edu
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, riva pearson wrote:
>
> Is anyone else doing something in solidarity with the meeting is Quito on Halloween? I'd love to know what else is going on.
> -Riva
> john brown <makhno68@yahoo.com> wrote: Don't Be Tricked by the Free Trade Area of the
> Americas
>
>
> On October 31, while children across the U.S. dress up
> as ghosts, witches, and NY fire fighters, threatening
> their neighbors with tricks if they don't get treats,
> some far scarier trickery will be attempted by
> business men and heads of state dressed up as trade
> negotiators as they meet in Ecuador to discuss the
> Free Trade Area of the Americas. Their meetings will
> be met by fierce resistance as multitudes of
> dissenters from across Latin America take direct
> action to stop the meetings. Here in Portland, we are
> planning a radical street festival in solidarity with
> those actions to denounce the expansion of
> neocolonialism promoted by the FTAA. By taking to the
> streets, we will celebrate the world we want to live
> in, a world where autonomy, self-organization,
> meaningful work, and access to land are valued more
> highly than patents, power, and profit.
>
> What is the FTAA?
>
>
> The FTAA is a proposed trade agreement, negotiated in
> secret by trade ministers from 34 countries--all of
> the countries of the Americas except for Cuba. It is
> modeled on the North American Free Trade Agreement
> (NAFTA), and its goal is to impose trade
> liberalization, patent protections, deregulation, and
> privatization hemisphere-wide. The FTAA draft texts
> are secret, but leaked information reveals that many
> of the FTAA's chapters are literally extensions of
> NAFTA rules. NAFTA has been a miserable failure in
> terms of workers and the environment. The FTAA seeks
> to expand that failure so it will affect the 755
> million people that live in the Western Hemisphere,
> and the land, water, food, forests, health care,
> education, and work which sustains us.
>
> Why A Radical Street Festival?
>
> In this world where corporations are striving to
> homogenize us into passive and faithful consumers, our
> culture is our greatest weapon of resistance.
> Traditional demonstrations and protests, while
> essential, often alienate the general public, are
> disregarded by corporate media, bore the participants,
> and are ignored by policy makers. Taking to the
> streets with dance, music, street theater, poetry and
> the spontaneous eruption of joy breaks through the
> numbing isolation induced by wage slavery and
> condescending media and lights a fire in people's
> consciousness. Ordinary folks creating meaningful art
> and sharing culture captures the imagination, and
> deepens our vision of a movement which is reflective
> of the worlds we aspire to create.
>
>
> In creating a radical street festival, we are
> responding to calls from Ecuador's indigenous and
> peasant organizations which have asked that people
> around the world do local solidarity actions. By doing
> this, we will strengthen local networks, and get the
> word out that the FTAA is not welcome in the Americas.
> We will show that we want a better world -- one which
> values mutual aid over private ownership, people over
> markets, rights over riches. We will demonstrate our
> firm conviction that another America is possible.
>
>
> Meet on October 31 at 3:30pm in Terry Schrunk
> Plaza--SW 3rd & Jefferson. Come in costume and dancing
> shoes, prepared to have a good time! For more
> information, call 503.499.1116, write to
> noftaapdx@yahoo.com or check out
> http://www.stopftaa.org for background info on the
> FTAA (follow the link to go to the old site too)!
>
> Also, coming up this Thursday (October 24th)at 7pm we
> will be holding an open outreach and organizing
> meeting at ILWU Local 5 (917 SW Oak, about a block
> southeast of Powell's). The purpose of the meeting is
> to inform the community about what are plans are for
> this Street Festival, as well as to give a space for
> people to ask questions, raise concerns, and get
> involved in making Halloween a success. We would love
> to see you there.
>
>
>
>
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