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September 4, 2003 - 2:47pm -- jim
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"Cancun Medics Call for Aid"

Garth Karl

Hi to all of you from Garth. I'm writing from Cancún. I want to apologize for the mass mailing, but things are desperate here. Basically we're way short of funds. What this means is that we literally have people sleeping in public parks, inspite of the nearly nightly downpours (not medics, though, because I and several others have fronted nearly 2,000 to provide for medic housing and a clinic space). We're looking at nearly 30,000 people coming here and right now we don't even have money to buy jugs of water...so we medics have organized a short crew to use bleach to decontaminate water.

September 3, 2003 - 5:19pm -- jim
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"4th Cancun Bulletin"

Puente a Cancun Team

Welcome to the 4th Cancun Bulletin from the Global Exchange Puente a Cancun

team providing a road map to de-railing the 5th WTO Ministerial...



WTO Scrambling to Rescue the 5th Ministerial from Imminent Failure,

Protesters Numbers grow....


Summary – With a week or so left before the beginning of the Cancun

Ministerial, three key factors are beginning to predominate...

September 3, 2003 - 5:03pm -- jim
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jim submits:

Emergency Update on WTO Cancun Mobilization



URGENT APPEAL-- DONATE NOW ON-LINE TO HELP PEASANT FARMERS GET TO CANCUN FOR WTO PROTESTS (instructions at end)



Dear Friend of Farmer and Peasant Organizations:

Dear Opponents of the WTO and Free Trade Policies:



ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!



Mexican farmers and peasants URGENTLY need your financial support now to organize against the World Trade Organization (WTO). Any amount large or small that you can give, will help (see below for how to give on-line or how to send funds).

September 1, 2003 - 1:46pm -- jim
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ricardo dominguez writes:

Mexican Security Assembles Cancun WTO "Watch List"


Sixty international activists (see the US list below) were named recently by Mexico's national security apparatus as "globalophobic leaders" in a not-so-secret document leaked to La Reforma newspaper. Mexico's Federal

Preventative Police, the Army and several other security forces are apparently concerned about our participation in alternative conferences and demonstrations in Cancun during the September 10-14 WTO Ministerial.

While it is a dubious honor that our work has been recognized, we are concerned that millions of people throughout the world who are also opposed to the WTO are NOT named on the "watch list."

August 27, 2003 - 6:03am -- hydrarchist
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Joshua Musinski writes:



Update From Miami


Today marked the beginning of the local Miami business leaders formal involvement in the FTAA trade talks in Miami. With the first monthly Luncheon of the Free Trade Area of the Americas Ministerial Meeting and VIII Americas Business Forum, hosted by the Florida foreign trade Association. The Luncheon featured; Ambassador Luis Lauredo, Executive Director of the FTAA Ministerial and Americas Business Forum.

August 22, 2003 - 12:49pm -- nolympics
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By Rob Eshelman



At about 9 pm a group of internationals rushed into the TV room and asked if we heard the explosion. I was sitting with Dae, Connery, Greta, Reagan and Amira drinking a bottle of whiskey. We all looked at one another perplexed and answered in the negative.



An Israeli who I saw frequently around the Hostel said it was a sound familiar to her. It was a bombing. As she was telling us this, the sounds of screaming sirens from ambulances, police, and other emergency vehicles could be heard from the street outside. Most of our group got up to peer out the window and sure enough a stream of vehicles was rushing to where the sound of the blast emanated.

August 21, 2003 - 10:53am -- jim
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Here we have the opening salvos in the resistance to next year's Nazi
rally in Madison Square Garden:

CounterConvention

Republicans Not Welcome

August 18, 2003 - 4:48pm -- nolympics
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rncnotwelcome.org writes "August 2003 Critical Mass Ride!:

The Republican National Convention gets UNINVITED!



Hundreds of New York’s cyclists, skaters, and bladers will be taking the streets once again for Friday August 29th’s Critical Mass. The theme for this month’s Critical Mass is uninviting the Republican National Convention.



One year from this ride, the RNC will be in Madison Square Garden to renominate Bush for the 2004 election. Let’s show the RNC now that their oil-thirsty agenda is not welcome in NYC!



Bring signs, banners, and fliers - or just your bikes. Critical Mass starts from Union Square North at 7pm."

August 18, 2003 - 10:10am -- nolympics
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nolympics submits "Umbrella House. 21/23 ave C between 2nd and 3rd.



Friday night has Movies, Norman Finkelstein, bands and DJs.



7.30pm. "Obstacle" by Nida Sinnokrot. 10 min short of new documentary about the Israeli wall being built in the west Bank, followed by a discussion with Norman Finkelstein (author of 'Image and reality of the Palestine/Israel conflict' and 'the Holocaust Industry')



Cul de Sac. hour long documentary about the decline of suburban San Diego, the closure of arms manufacturing plants, and the subsequent social catastrophe of crystal meth and madness which culminates in our hero stealing a US army tank, joyriding thorugh town and ultimately being executed by the cops.



"extraordinary"... James Joyce



After the movies and speaking we will have bands and dj's, refreshments provided. Door pressure....5ds

All Funds will be brought to Cancun to help with any bail monies or medical expenses that may be necessary.

August 14, 2003 - 1:35pm -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade submits "A Statement from Anarchist Black Cross Network Members


Report from Break the Chains Conference

Eugene, OR | August 8-10, 2003


Members of various collectives affiliated with the Anarchist Black
Cross Network (ABCN), which formed in July 2002, met at the Break the
Chains Conference, August 8-10, 2003 in Eugene, Oregon. The Break the
Chains Conference was originally intended to be the ABC-Network's
second annual conference. We consider the Break the Chains Conference
a success in terms of bringing folks together and in sharing
information about the struggle against prisons. We managed to meet
several times throughout the weekend, despite a packed conference and
a hectic workshop schedule to discuss common work and goals. We came
up with several goals for the network during our discussion sessions.

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