[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: FTAA

[jonathan lawson]

subtitle: THE SEOND COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS
title: 'Free Trade' = War on the Lands and Peoples of the Global South

On October 28 and 29, heads of state and trade ministers from 34 countries 
of the Americas (only Cuba is excluded) will meet in Quito, Ecuador to 
negotiate the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Their goal? 
The world's largest "free trade" zone, a unified New World of 
privatization, deregulation, and corporate control over labor and 
resources, at the expense of human rights, the environment, and democracy. 
In short, the FTAA opens a hemisphere-wide front in the corporate war on 
the lands and peoples of the Earth.

<p>On Monday October 28 at 4 p.m., a Seattle solidarity festival and 
demonstration against the FTAA takes place downtown in Victor Steinbrueck 
Park On Saturday and Sunday November 2 and 3,  the Community Alliance for 
Global Justice sponsors a community conference, "ALCA NUNCA" (Spanish for 
FTAA NEVER), from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the University of Washington School 
of Social Work. <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19153">Get the 
full story here.</a>

<p>The <a href="http://ecuador.indymedia.org/">Ecuador IMC</a> has full 
coverage on FTAA preparations in Quito and the international campaigns of 
opposition.

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