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ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE AGAINST THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM |
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by Radical Librarian (forwarded story)
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26 Nov 2001
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This is a forwarded story about the upcoming anti-capitalist convergence in NYC from Chuck0 (chuck0 (at) infoshop.org). |
The organizing for anti-capitalist protests against the WEF meetings in New York City continues. It should move into high gear this coming weekend in New York after several meetings happen. Hopefully, the Anti-Capitalist Convergence in Washington, DC will endorse this call at our next meeting. It's looking like the WEF meeting will shape up to be a major anti-capitalist protest.
If your group or project would like to endorse this call, please email me and I'll add your endorsement to the web version of this call. Individuals can also endorse. Pseudonyms are OK if you want to protect your identity.
Chuck0
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CALL FOR AN ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE AGAINST THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IN NEW YORK CITY (JANUARY 31- FEBRUARY 4)
JOIN US AS NEW YORKERS STRIKE BACK AGAINST CORPORATE TERROR
For years now, the CEOs of major corporations, hundreds
of top international government officials and just plain rich people - from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton - have been meeting every year in Davos, Switzerland. This is where the real rulers of the world give the politicians their marching orders. This is where the schemes that lead to atrocities like GATT and the WTO are actually hatched. And this year, the dining club for the world ruling class will be held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
The WEF is moving here because they were effectively chased out of Switzerland by a concerted campaign of direct action. They think that here in New York we're shell-shocked, punch-drunk, and maybe we are but - whaddya fuckin' kiddin' me?
This is a provocation. While thousands of New Yorkers
are still burying their dead, trying to patch together
shattered lives, and desperately trying to see how they can
continue to pay insanely high New York City rents after being laid off from their jobs, the richest and most powerful men on earth have decided to come and party on the wreckage - to celebrate, no doubt, the billions of dollars of taxpayer money they've just been handed by their respective governments and explore new opportunities
to profiteer from permanent global warfare. Do they think we
have no pride? No self-respect? That we're just going to sit
back and let this happen?
As our heroic firefighters have shown us, the moratorium on
direct action in New York is over.
We are calling for for a joyous, creative resistance to the
WEF's stifling grey culture of corporate conformity; actions
whose diversity of tactics will reflect the rich diversity
of our city's communities. We are calling for actions
based on principles of non-hierarchy, passionate opposition
to patriarchy, white supremacy, and rule-by-elite, and
the vision of a world in which no one has to live in fear or daily terror. We are calling for a world in which states and their wars, the economic violence and insecurity promulgated by their corporate overlords, the hideous legacy of 500 years of colonialism and racism, and the
violence and intolerance of every kind of crusader and religious fanatic will finally be banished from this earth.
It's not a pipe dream. Nothing is impossible if we refuse to live in fear.
WOULD YOU CARE TO JOIN US IN A SOCIAL REVOLUTION?
RSVP
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
New York City
January 31-February 4
On the web: http://www.abolishthebank.org/wef2002.html
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http://infoshop.org/ |
See also:
http://www.abolishthebank.org/wef2002.html
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