[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: FTAA

[jasonr at speakeasy.net]

approve

-typo in the subtitle

On 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 target=_top href="http://seattle.indym-
>    edia.org/front.php3?article_id=19153">Get
>    the full story here.</a>
>
> <p>The <a target=_top 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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