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6/14-18: Midwest Mobilizes Against US Conference of Mayors |
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by repost, CIMC
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08 Jun 2002
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From June 14-18, more than 350 mayors - including Chicago Mayor Richard Daley - will gather in Madison, Wisconsin for the annual meetings of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The annual USCM meetings are designed to shape national urban policy -- increasingly within the framework of pro-corporate neo-liberal strategies -- at the expense of workers, local communities and the enviroment. |
 From June 14-18, more than 350 mayors - including Chicago Mayor Richard Daley - will gather in Madison, Wisconsin for the annual meetings of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The annual USCM meetings are designed to shape national urban policy -- increasingly within the framework of pro-corporate neo-liberal strategies -- at the expense of workers, local communities and the enviroment. |
From June 14-18, more than 350 mayors - including Chicago Mayor Richard Daley - will gather in
Madison, Wisconsin for the annual meetings of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The annual USCM meetings are designed to shape national urban policy -- increasingly within the framework of pro-corporate neo-liberal strategies -- at the expense of workers, local communities and the enviroment.
The annual meetings will include a series of exclusive social events and private gatherings -- the vast majority of which are closed to the public -- where lobbyists from an elite group of multinational corporations assembled by the USCM Mayors Business Council will schmooze the mayors. The current Business Council steering committee includes representatives of 3M, Philip Morris, Lehman Brothers, Sodexho-Marriott, and the Bechtel Corporation.
Groups from across the Midwest, including Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago, are now mobilizing in response. Creative Peoples Resistance is planning a critical mass ride, marches, and a Midwest radical networking session, while Cities for People has organized a counter-conference, community parade, and petition against Bush. Rallies against Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge and the USA Patriot Act are planned as well. Meanwhile, Madison media and authorities have focused on supposed "violent anarchists" coming to participate.
For updates and breaking news about protests at the USCM , check Madison IMC |
