[CIMC-working] PROPSED: Framing the TABD Protests

[Chris Kaihatsu]

Doug, I've heard >>> 4:30 <<< for today, at Boeing HQ, Randolph and
Riverfront Plaza (or Canal -- it's easier to find).


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----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Morris <being@enteract.com>
To: <imc-chicago-working@lists.indymedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:23 PM
Subject: [CIMC-working] PROPSED: Framing the TABD Protests


> This is a rough draft for center column feature for today...
>
> I'd like to get it up soon.  Feel free to edit... just let me know...
>
> Comments?  OK to put up?
>
> TABD PROTESTS
>
> Framing the TABD Protests
>
> At a news conference, Wednesday, organizers for a TABD march noted that
the
> march would be peaceful. For the march today, Thursday, organizers agreed
> [LINK:
> http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=15589&group=webcast]
> upon a march route from Boeing (Boeing CEO is co-chairing this meeting) at
> Washington and Canal beginning at 5:00 pm to the Tribune Plaza. At 5:00 pm
> at Boeing HQ there will be a few speakers and at 6:00 pm at the Tribune
> plaza there will be a rally. Also planned are autonomous actions in the
> streets on Friday, starting at 4 pm at Daley Plaza, and an Alternatives
> Economics Summit for Saturday, November 9th at the DePaul University Loop
> Campus, 333 South State St., 11th floor.
>
> Though the march is organized by a combination of local community, direct
> action, and labor organizations, the media have painted the TABD
protesters
> as anarchists "descending" on the city [LINK]. Buildings downtown have
> issued alerts of disruptions that have workers staying home.  The police
> presence will be extensive. The city has warned protesters that it will
sue
> individuals for any property damage.
>
> Organizers frame the protest [LINK ] against the global economic
> privitization strategies of TABD, which is "the most extreme example of
> "corporate rule" because it is an organization specifically designed to
> "privatize" public policy decision-making." They note that TABD is a
> far-reaching international corporate-state alliance. Mandated by the US
> government and the European Commission, the 150 large corporations work to
> identify "barriers to transatlantic trade". They will be drafting
> recommendations to put forth to the World Trade Organization (WTO),
> including discussing how workers' rights, environmental policies, and any
> other kinds of "regulation" serve as barriers. Protesting such issues is a
> civic duty for those commited to democracy, especially in Republican
> controlled politics of America. Overlooked in much of the public media and
> police rhetoric are that protest and civil disobedience are civil rights
> [LINK to June's post:
> http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=15636].
>
> [Background and Schedule of anti-TABD actions and events:
> Anti-TABD Protest Party pages : http://www.azone.org/notabd/index.php ]
>
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