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FTAA Countdown in Miami

Threatening dissenting trade representatives with serious repercussions and promising those countries who open their markets to northern capital with friendly treatment, US trade representative Robert Zoellick has confidently predicted a successful round of negotiations in Miami. Absent from his confident calculations is the 20,000 protesters who will be on hand for days of demonstrations in opposition to the establishment of a Free Trade Area of the Americas. Fresh off a victory in Cancun we’re determined to make this round of capitalist talks another glorious failure.

8 People Arrested at Brooklyn Benefit for Anarchist People of Color

November 16, 2003, Brooklyn, NY – People attending a private fundraising event in Brooklyn were
shocked early this morning by an unprovoked and violent assault at the hands
of the NYPD. Up to 100 people attending a fundraiser for activists of color
were indiscriminately sprayed with chemical agents, beaten with nightsticks,
and harassed by a throng of police officers. Witnesses say there was no
cause for the assaults and the subsequent arrests following the melee.

An anonymous coward writes:

"NO WAY FTAA!"
Education and Mobilization Against the FTAA

East Lansing, Oct. 24-26, 2003

The conference is just days away, have you registered? If not please do
so. For further information about workshops, directions, housing,
schedules, to register or anything relating to the conference, check out
the conference website at: FTAA or email:NoFTAA2003@yahoo.com

"How the Anti-War Movement is Blowing It"

Bill Weinberg, World War 3 Report

Raining on a parade--or, in this case, an anti-war march--isn't likely to
win one popularity contests. But somebody has got to raise the alarm. The
upcoming Oct. 25 march in Washington DC is being billed as a
revitalization of the movement which made history with coordinated
worldwide protests against the looming US-led assualt on Iraq Feb. 15. But
the new mobilization actually represents a dangerous step backwards for
the anti-war forces in the US.

An anonymous coward writes:

Register now for New Haven FTAA Consulta. See below for exact
schedule times. Website now includes ride board and directions.
Registration deadline of Tue, Oct 28 approaching soon, so register now. If
you pre-register, you get free entry to the Saturday night music show,
which features radical artists such as Dead Prez!

NEXT STOP, MIAMI!
Autonomous Festival For Humanity and Against the FTAA
Northeast FTAA Consulta

When: Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2003

Where: New Haven, CT

Why: Because we are everywhere. There is a new left on the rise, a left
that seeks to change the world without taking power, a left that is almost
invisible to the gaze of the corporate media and that has been pushed to
the periphery of events such as the World Social Forum: the autonomous
left. We seek to make the invisible visible. We are part of a network of
solidarity around a caravan of representatives from autonomous social
movements in Brazil and Argentina. We are here to build connections and
solidarity between local and global movements for justice, and to learn
from their examples. Come learn about the consequences of the neoliberal
agenda (“the new colonialism”), the positive alternatives that have emerged
to challenge corporate globalization (“the most inspiring popular movement
since the Zapatistas”), and network, train, plan, and strategize for the
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Ministerial in Miami (Nov 17 to 21).
We can shut it down!

FTAA Miami Moblization Update #4

Greetings from Citizens Trade Campaign! This is the fourth of our updates on the Mobilization against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), as activists around the country engage their local communities and prepare for the marches, rallies, teach-ins, and the People's Gala that will all be part of activities during the FTAA Ministerial in Miami November 17-22nd.

Snehal Shingavi writes:

Dear friends:

The University of California has found three students -- Rachel Odes, Snehal
Shingavi, and Michael Smith -- guilty of participating in an illegal assembly
and refusing to cooperate with university officials for their involvement in
the anti-war sit-in that took place in Sproul Hall on March 20, 2003. Not
only does this mark an attack on anti-war protesters and people of
conscience throughout the country, the entire process from start to finish
has been riddled with unfairness and makes a mockery of anything resembling
justice.

"Hendrik Voss"writes:

Miami FTAA and Columbus SOA Events Listings

November 17-23, 2003


The Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) is compiling a comprehensive listing of events that are going to take place from November 17-23, 2003 in Miami, Florida and Columbus, Georgia as part of the Actions to Stop the FTAA and to Shut Down the SOA.  The calendar of events will be posted shortly on www.LASolidarity.org
 


Please email information about the events that your group is working on to hvoss@soaw.org 
 


Hendrik Voss

SOA Watch Communications Coordinator

phone: 202.234.3440

fax: 202-636-4505

SOAW

Anonymous Comrade writes

"Turn It Up"

Iain Boal

Text of remarks by Iain Boal at Black Oak Books in Berkeley on September 24 during an evening of readings and discussion sponsored by PEN West in observation of Banned Book Week.

"No oppressive regime can press on the hot lid of a boiling pot forever". These are the words of the imprisoned South African poet and musician, Mzwakhe Mbuli. He was born in the 1950s in Sophiatown--the Harlem of Johannesburg--home also to Hugh Masekela, Abdullah Ibrahim and other writers, musicians, and poets later driven into exile or killed. His hometown was razed to the ground in the early 1960s by apartheid's bulldozers, now a more familiar instrument of terror, then rebuilt as an Afrikaaner settlement and renamed Triomf ("Triumph").

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