Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:39:13 -0500
From: Chuck Munson <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: PROTEST in NYC at WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: Jan. 31-Feb. 5


FUCKING BASTARDS!

I knew these motherfuckers would pull this!

These asshole pulled the same shit on the several coalitions that were
organizing for the September World Bank and IMF protests.

I think it is time to start treating these folks like the neo-fascists
that they are.

Chuck0

Keri wrote:
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> MASS DEMONSTRATIONS CALLED IN NEW YORK CITY OUTSIDE OF
> THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM:
> JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 5
> 
> SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2: MASS MARCH AND RALLY
> 
> A.N.S.W.E.R. - Act Now to Stop War & End Racism -
> calls for mass actions to
> "Declare war on unemployment, poverty and mass layoffs
> - - not on the people of Afghanistan."
> "Money for jobs, education and health care - not war
> in Afghanistan."
> 
> We call on thousands of people to take to the streets
> of New York City between January 31 and February 5 in
> a protest coinciding with an annual meeting of the
> World Economic Forum.
> 
> This meeting includes political leaders and hundreds
> of representatives of the world's biggest
> transnational corporations, banks and media
> conglomerates, from Chase-Manhattan to GM to Siemen to
> AOL.  It represents the world economic and military
> structures that have impoverished people throughout
> the Third World and inside the United States.  It is
> these corporate and banking elites and government
> officials who are promoting the war against the people
> of Afghanistan.  They will derive huge profits from
> the sale of military weapons of mass destruction under
> the rubric of combating "terrorism."  They seek to
> consolidate their hold over the oil-rich Caspian
> region and the Middle East.
> 
> Since September 11, hundreds of thousands of workers
> from the airline industry, the hotel and restaurant
> industry and more have lost their jobs.  Unemployment
> and mass layoffs are now sweeping through all sectors
> of the U.S. economy.  The corporate and banking elites
> which dominate the U.S. government have crafted
> legislation and emergency aid to bail out corporate
> investors and insurance companies, while providing
> absolutely no assistance to working people who have
> lost their income and are now facing evictions,
> foreclosures and deepening poverty.  Hardest hit have
> been the lowest paid workers, especially those in the
> service sector.
> 
> It is obscene that these modern day corporate robber
> barons and the government officials who do their
> bidding will hold their celebrated annual meeting at
> the Waldorf in New York City while hundreds of
> thousands of New Yorkers are being forced onto the
> unemployment lines.  New York City officials will roll
> out the red carpet for the rich and powerful while
> working and poor people go without a guaranteed
> income, health care or a roof over their heads.
> 
> The demonstration is being called by International
> A.N.S.W.E.R., a national coalition that was formed in
> response to the headlong rush to war and racist
> attacks following the horrific events of September 11.
>  A.N.S.W.E.R. has the support of more than 500
> organizations and prominent individuals and scores of
> organizing centers in cities and towns across the
> country.  Its national steering committee represents
> major national organizations that have campaigned
> against U.S. intervention in Latin America, the
> Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia, and organizations
> that have campaigned for social and economic justice
> for poor people inside the United States. (For details
> see www.InternationalANSWER.org.)
> 
> To endorse or support the February 2 mass march, email
> ANSWER-AT-afgj.org.
> 
> Debout les damns de la terre
> Debout les forats de la faim
> La raison tonne en son cratre
> C'est l'ruption de la fin
> Du passe faisons table rase
> Foules, esclaves, debout, debout
> Le monde va changer de base
> Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout
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