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DESCRIPTION:Nuestro Mundo No Está en Venta:\nCampesinos In Ecuador Confront The Free 
 Trade Area Of The Americas\n\nA Report From The Frontlines With Justin 
 Ruben & Leila Salazar\n\nThurs. Oct. 3, 8 p.m.\nArtists' Television 
 Access\n992 Valencia Street @ 21st, SF\n\n$5 sliding scale; no one turned 
 away for lack of funds. Benefit for the SF Independent Media Center and the 
 Bay Area Social Forum.\n\nOn October 31, the 7th summit of the Free Trade 
 Area of the Americas (the FTAA) will take place in Ecuador. As the youth of 
 North America don witch and cowboy costumes, a far scarier bunch of 
 middle-aged men, dressed up like corporate executives, will be converging 
 on the capital city of Quito. 34 foreign ministers and secretaries of state 
 from across the Americas are coming to Quito to negotiate the FTAA.\n\nThe 
 leaders of Ecuador's powerful social movements argue that the FTAA 
 represents a death sentence for small farmers, indigenous cultures, local 
 food systems, and the environment, that it will give unprecedented power to 
 major corporations and investors, exacerbating poverty and insecurity, and 
 causing widespread ecological disaster.\n\nThe meeting in Quito is 
 critical, because the FTAA's backers are hoping that major portions of the 
 agreement will be finalized here.  But people here in Ecuador have other 
 ideas.  Tens of thousands of campesinos (small farmers), indigenous people, 
 trade unionists, students, and other groups are mobilizing to non-violently 
 surround the summit, reject the FTAA, and, if possible, stop the 
 negotiations.  And thousands of people from Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, 
 Brazil, and other countries, are coming to join in.\n\nJustin Ruben spent 
 the summer in Quito, working with Campesino groups who are mobilizing 
 against the FTAA.\n\nLeila Salazar of Amazon Watch is involved in the 
 international mobilization that will take place around this 
 meeting.\n\nAgainst a backdrop of images and multimedia from the 
 mobilization, they will discuss:\n\n\nThe devastating impacts of 20 years 
 of "free market" neoliberal policies on the Ecuadorian people\n\nThe 
 amazing history of resistance to neoliberalism in Ecuador\n\n How civil 
 society in Ecuador is mobilizing against the FTAA summit, and how this 
 ORIGINAL "antiglobalization" movement is linking up with the global justice 
 movement(s) in North America and Europe\n\nWhy this is a critical moment in 
 the effort to build a continental movement for justice and sustainability 
 and what is planned in the Bay Area - Oct 27: Bay Area Social Forum and Oct 
 28: Festival & Nonviolent Direct Action.\n\n\nPLEASE COME\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/10773.php
SUMMARY:Nuestro Mundo No Está en Venta: Campesinos In Ecuador Confront The FTAA
LOCATION:ATA,\n992 Valencia St @ 21st,\nSF (24th St BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/10773.php
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