[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: FTAA

[Jeremy Kahn]

thumbs up here as well. Jonathan, you're amazing.

--j

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Veeble a rebel you shun!
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, jonathan lawson wrote:

> 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.
>
> image: http://ecuador.indymedia.org/icon/2002/08/58.jpg
>
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