the time for action is now! all out to D.C.!

Due to recent current events in the United States, the anti-corporate-globalization movement may have its best chance at reaching the general public in the United States through anti-corporate-globalization protests yet. That is, if we don't fumble this one up.
It has been a year since the G8 protests in Genoa, Italy. It will have been nearly three years since the protests in Seattle, Washington against the WTO when we hit the streets in D.C. this September. But something has greatly changed to our advantage that did not exist when protests hit Seattle, when they hit Quebec, or when they hit Italy.

The most important change as far as what Americans see and feel is corporate corruption. In 1999, everyone was still living off the Internet boom high. Corporations could do no wrong. CEOs were magnificent heroes bringing wealth to everyone, well according to the media.

Today, just a few months before the protests in D.C. Americans are seeing on the same media that encouraged people to worship CEOs and to have blind faith in the stock market, that these gods are heavily corrupt, they put thousands and overall millions out of work for their own personal gain. So many companies lied about their earnings giving a false impression of a "boom." So many "experts" and "analysts" had been giving misleading or outright bad tips and still continue to do so today.

Now the heat is turning on the President and Vice President, who almost a year ago could do no wrong. They too have been involved in the same shady and corrupt business practices they claim to be cracking down on.

And with this, polls after polls are showing people do not trust the Republican Party and barely trust the Democratic Party when it comes to dealing with this problem. The Democratic Party is not taking any stand on this, most likely due to the fact they don't want the spotlight on them showing similar complacency and corruption among them.

On top of the domestic shift in attitude towards capitalism, there has also been some changes in our neighbors in LAtin America. Argentina is in shambles, Paraguay was just hit with massive demonstrations and rioting, the Brazilian people are turning toward left-leaning leaders, all of this is directly related to the IMF's involvement in their countries. The privatization, the bad economics leading to massive unemployment, currency devaluation, out of control inflation, and so on.

So who can the people turn to? It certainly can be us because this is at the heart of what the anti-corporate-globalization movement has been about since the beginning.

Now is not the time to sit back and wait for some better oppurtunity to make ourselves known again. We are already falling behind the feelings of many Americans, and we should be pushing people beyond that and revealing to them other alternatives besides the other political party. If we wait too much longer, we are going to look tame and pathetic to people whose feelings towards what we are out there for are far more serious. The Democratic Party may even come off more radical than us.

Now is the time to be talking to your friends, fellow workers, people on the streets, anybody and everybody. Now is the time to get to D.C. and show the Americans they do have other options and there are thousands more sharing their feelings who are out on the streets and not just walking around for a few hours and going home, but raising all hell because that is how we really do feel inside.

Seattle was not a success because people showed up to walk around on the streets. It was a success because people planned and put their safety on the line for what they believed in. The same can be said of every major anti-corporate-globalization protest we can easily remember, but not of those we don't, especially those in the U.S. since September 11th.

If you sit this one out. If you go out there just to see what's going on, have made no plans, and just walk around for a few hours, you will be directly contributing to the potential collapse of the American anti-corporate-globalization movement.

A lot may be riding on the demonstrations in September against the IMF and World Bank.

Don't become another walking spectator this fall, take action and start planning today.

See you in D.C.

Mobilization for Global Justice - http://www.globalizethis.org/

Anti-Capitalist Convergence - http://www.abolishthebank.org/

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