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WEST COAST ANTI-FTAA CONSULTA
Date:
Saturday, October 18, 2003
Time:
10:00 AM
-
8:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
Location Details:
Oakland, California
HERE Local 2850 Union Hall
548 20th St (between Telegraph and San Pablo)
Downtown Oakland (a block from 19th St/Oakland
BART)
CALL FOR A WEST COAST ANTI-FTAA CONSULTA
IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA!
Reports from an on-the-ground Florida organizer and
the Pittsburg Organizing Group, initiators of the
"Padded Bloc" call to direct action in Miami
WHEN: Saturday October 18, 10am to 8pm
WHERE: Oakland, California
HERE Local 2850 Union Hall
548 20th St (between Telegraph and San Pablo)
Downtown Oakland (a block from 19th St/Oakland
BART)
CONVENORS: Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW),
Anti-FTAA Action and Action for Local/Global
Justice
Building on a major victory over the World Trade
Organization in
Cancun, Mexico, tens of thousands of people will
gather in Miami
from November 19-22 in a crucial mobilization to stop
the Free
Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). When the FTAA meets
in Miami
to unilaterally finalize their vision of an economic
policy that
threatens the freedom and well being of every living
being in
this hemisphere, we'll be there to say no. Ordinary
people are
not allowed into the meetings, but shutting the doors
will not
silence our voices. At the FTAA protest in Quebec, we
tore the
fence down; the next year in Quito, we descended from
the four
directions with our demands for justice; and this year
in Miami,
we'll stop them in their tracks. A better world is
necessary.
With dances of dissent, seductive artwork, padded
blocs, critical
mass bike trickery, guerrilla murals and other
displays of
public beauty and empowerment we'll build a better
future right
then and there in the streets of Miami!
Activists from across the country have converged at
Consultas in
Pittsburgh, Chicago and Denver to plan coordinated
actions, street
tactics and creative disruptions in Miami.
DASW, Anti-FTAA Action and Action for Local/Global
Justice invite
activists throughout California and the west coast to
participate
in a Consulta to plan nonviolent direct actions for
Miami that
will send a message loud and clear to the world that
the movements
against war and empire are alive and well in the belly
of the empire.
Proposed Consulta agenda items:
* Updates from organizers on the ground in Miami and
how we can
support impacted communities struggle in Florida.
* Direct action tactics for Miami
* Padded Block actions & updates from other Consultas
* Preparation of legal and medial strategies for Miami
* Formation of a communication network to be used on
the ground
in Miami
* Jail support and solidarity
* Teach-in, legal march and rally and other activities
in Miami
* Sustained anti-FTAA and other related campaigns
* Ongoing anti-war, anti-corporate globalization,
anti-empire
networking
* Outreach
The Consulta will last from 10am to 8pm on Saturday
October 18th,
with possible breakout planning sessions on the
morning of Sunday
the 19th. A fundraising party will also be organized
for the
evening of Saturday, October 18.
REGISTER NOW!
We strongly encourage you to register for the
Consulta. Please contact
us (sfconsulta@riseup.net) ASAP with the name of your
group (if
applicable), number of people attending, as well as
any other special
needs.
To get help with housing, please send an additional,
separate email to
consulta_housing@yahoo.com with the number of people
in need of
housing.
For more information regarding campaigns, direct
action and networking
against ftaa, corporate globalization and related
local struggles in
the Bay Area, sign on to the nowto listserve:
http://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/nowto
For more information regarding the anti-ftaa
mobilization in Miami and
related national campaigns and organizing, sign on to
the ftaa
listserve:
http://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/ftaa
For more information regarding DASW, go to:
http://www.actagainstwar.org/
For more information regarding Anti-Ftaa Action, go
to:
http://www.antiftaa.net/
* * * * *
DASW Statement:
The FTAA threatens to absorb both North and South
America into a homogeneous market, where corporations
will be further empowered to successfully challenge
any regulation, policy or procedure which hinders
their ability to profit on the backs of the people.
More jobs from the US will move to Central and South
America, where workers labor in sweatshop conditions.
The environment, people's health, and standards of
living will increasingly take a back seat to corporate
profits.
The drastic policies that the FTAA plans to unleash
internationally will be mirrored locally by the Miami
police department. The Miami PD's mission is to ensure
that the demands of tens of thousands of protesters
don't disturb the multimillion-dollar gala being
thrown by and for the western hemisphere's most
affluent arch-capitalists and their pet politicians.
WE AIM TO EXPOSE the connection between economic war,
militarism abroad and the war on communities at home.
WE DEMAND an end to the free trade policies enshrined
in the FTAA and other international agreements.
WE PLEDGE to send a direct and uncompromising message
to those who would take our freedom and well-being.
WE COMMIT to disrupt and derail the meeting in Miami
through a variety of diverse nonviolent direct
actions.
WE BELIEVE in our inherent right to free speech and
assembly and will stand strong against any attack from
FTAA policies and police forces.
WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY with all people adversely
affected by the FTAA and its capitalist globalization
agenda.
WE CALL ON communities to go to Miami or organize
local solidarity actions to expose and confront the
policies of the FTAA.
Direct Action to Stop the War is a greater Bay Area
network of affinity groups, working groups and
activists who have waged a campaign of mass nonviolent
direct action against war for empire, including the
20,000 person shut down of the San Francisco Financial
District the Day after the US invasion of Iraq.
Added to the calendar on Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:25AM
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