Bay Area Solidarity Demo Monday

Several of us (literally, just several) who are coming back from Miami yesterday or today agreed to call for an

EMERGENCY RALLY/ACTION
Monday, November 24th
at the Federal Building in San Francisco,
at 12 NOON
(would someone please post the exact cross streets and side of the building? thanks!)

Affinity groups and/or performance groups that can work together today and plan something, please do so.

This is a participatory protest: bring signs, banners, poetry, solidarity, sound systems, drums. etc. etc. Be ready to move to whatever location affinity
groups choose to support their direct actions.

The repression in Miami is stiff, it's time for our solidarity to be CREATIVE and FIERCE!

Email fishe [at] igc.org for information about visuals (puppets, signs, etc) that you can help bring to the demonstration Monday morning.

This demonstration is called for in solidarity with the following proposed call to action:
Call for National day of Solidarity with the Miami 200
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You may have just returned from Miami. You may have a loved
one or friend who just returned from Miami. You may be
someone who will lose their job, culture, or way of life due
to corporate globalization. You may just be someone who cares
passionately about the self determination, in the form of the
right to petition your government for greivances.

You may have a friend or loved one who did not return from
Miami on time. There are a lot of you, over 200.

We call for an international day of solidarity, in the form
of nonviolent direct action, all over the United States, to
demand the release of those arrested in Miami protesting the
FTAA.

The police state known as America has decided to throw out
the constitution, and throw out the human rights of those
in Miami protesting their governments policies.

If you want to protect your right to peaceful assembly or
your right to free speech, or if you want to fight
corporate globalization, or if you just want to free the
people who have been imprisoned unjustly, for peacefully
working towards global justice, organize an action in your
city. The Miami police department has demonstrated that it
will not hesitate to use extreme violence against
demonstrators, including using chemical weapons on the when
they are already in custody. We have no idea what is
happening to those brave, powerful people who we love and
who are in the Miami jails.

We call for nonviolent direct actions all over the hemisphere
on Monday, November 24th, if the prisoners have not been
released by that night.

We are witnessing the loss of all our freedoms in this
country, and we cannot sit back and let a few people fight
for those freedoms alone any longer. Together we are stronger.
Stand up, and save the right to peaceful assembly, because
without this right, which has been thrown out in Miami, we
will never be able to stand together again.

Keep the spirit of the Miami FTAA resistance alive in your
community by creating creative, strong actions that reach
out and unite communities, while challenging corporate
globalization, in all its monstrous life-destroying
manifestations.

For more info, see http://www.ftaaimc.org and http://www.indybay.org