[CIMC-working] 1st ANNIVERSARY OF ARGENTINA'S POPULAR REBELLIONFriday, DEC 20

[Chris Kaihatsu]

1st ANNIVERSARY OF ARGENTINA'S POPULAR REBELLIONFriday, DEC 20
5:30pm @ Plaza Tenochtitlan (18th St & Loomis)~Rally
7:00pm @ Decima Musa Restaurant (19th & Loomis)~Screening & Gathering
ChicagoBring your pots and pans to the streets to protest US corporate
greed! 
(there is a cute McDonalds by the plaza)
Drums, noyse makers & Tango music?! to remember:
-the 1st anniversary of the Argentine revolt
-the 5th anniversary of the massacre of the Zapatista community in Acteal,
Chiapas. *Screening of Kick ass Video about Argentina by Italy IMC
*Slide Show with photos from Argentina/ Material will be distributed
*Testimonies from local struggles linked to Argentina
*Bring your ideas to strategi
ze together for future actions!!And more!! Contact: 773.463.4872A year ago,
the people of Argentina faced the Christmas season in a grim economic state.
The IMF refused the government's loan request, so workers saw their salaries
cut by 60%. Major banks froze people's bank accounts.  Being the poster
child of the IMF and World Bank, Argentina was forced during the
90s to privatize services and to open its market to transnational
corporations that 
look for highs profit through low costs: massive layoffs and firings,
raising 
the unemployment to 25%. Argentina found the end of the neoliberal economic
rainbow: 
complete financial ruin.  Facing hunger and renewed police r
epression, over a million peoplespontaneously took to the streets on Dec
19-20. They banged on pots and pans and chanted "Que Se Vayan Todos!" (They
all must go) to transnational
corporations, corrupt politicians, and the repressive police forces that
support them. Since then, the Argentine people organize weekly Asambleas
Populares(popular public assemblies) to make their own economic decisions
andcontinue the Cacerolazos to make their voices heard. An inspiring
movement has developed where the popular politics of the future are being
re-invented. 
The people of Argentina are calling for a global day of action to mark their
anniversary. Global Day of
Action:www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/d20