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From: Action Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 4:36
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Subject: [IAC] Anti-WEF Demo Feb. 1-2 ENDORSE
NOW
Mobilize - Demonstrate - Educate - Build Alternatives
THE INTERNATIONAL A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION - ACT NOW TO STOP
WAR & END RACISM - CALLS FOR MOBILIZATIONS ON FEBRUARY 1
AND 2 IN NEW YORK CITY OUTSIDE OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
TO ENDORSE THESE EVENTS, fill out our easy-to-use form at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/antiwef-endorse.html#endo.
*Declare war on unemployment, poverty and mass layoffs -
not the people of the Afghanistan and the Middle East!
*Defend civil liberties!
*Money for jobs, education and health care - not war in
Afghanistan and the Middle East and corporate tax cuts!
From January 31 to February 4, corporate bosses from the
world's largest transnationals and political leaders will
meet in New York City for their annual World Economic
Forum. In past years they met in Davos, Switzerland, but
massive demonstrations forced a change in venue.
This year they'll be meeting at the Waldorf Astoria hotel
in mid-town Manhattan. The World Economic Forum will
celebrate war in Afghanistan and the Middle East, attacks
on civil liberties, and corporate tax cuts.
The International ANSWER Coalition calls for alternatives
- jobs, health care, education, civil rights, and peace
with justice - that reflect the needs of the vast majority
of people. The corporate agenda wasn't welcome in Davos,
and it's not welcome in New York City.
JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION ON FEBRUARY
1 AND 2 TO SAY:
*NO to war in Afghanistan and the Middle East!
*NO to corporate-centered globalization!
*YES to jobs, education, health care, and civil liberties!
**THE ACTION PLAN**
FEBRUARY 1
Teach-in at Community Church, 35th between Park and
Madison Avenues
starting at 9:00am
Featuring workshops on:
-War in the Middle East
-Civil liberties
-Immigrant rights
-Corporate-centered globalization
-Domestic economic policies
-Alternative visions from the progressive community
FEBRUARY 2
*Mass rally at the World Economic Forum*
Gather at 11:00am
At the Waldorf Astoria: Park Ave., between 49th and 50th
Sts.
Bring signs, puppets, street theater, noise-makers, and
your creativity to say:
Since September 11, hundreds of thousands of workers from
the travel industry, hotels, restaurants, and others have
lost their jobs. Unemployment and mass layoffs are
sweeping through all sectors of the world economy.
Politicians, working for the interests of corporate
elites, are providing billions of dollars in bailouts for
investors and transnational corporations, but not a penny
for increased unemployment insurance. The Congressional
"economic stimulus" plan offers huge corporate tax cuts,
but only pennies for working people. The lowest paid
workers, especially immigrants and service sector workers,
are suffering the repercussions of 9-11, while the rich
get richer.
Immigrants and those who are struggling against the
corporate agenda are in for a double whammy, as Attorney
General Ashcroft curtails basic civil liberties and
constitutional rights. Today the attacks are against
immigrants - incarceration without charges and racial
profiling. Tomorrow the target will be US citizens as
Ashcroft pushes to legalize surveillance of religious and
political groups.
Internationally, the Bush administration wages war in
Afghanistan and encourages expanded war in Palestinian
territories. Now Bush is preparing the public for
prolonged war in Iraq and perhaps other nations. The
deaths of thousands of civilians in the Middle East, both
from direct military action and the resulting refugee
crisis, is nothing short of state-sponsored terrorism.
This is not the way to find justice for 3,000 civilians
who died on September 11. And this is not the way to build
a more secure and stable world.
We must respond to increasing attacks on our well-being by
corporate-dominated politicians that bring us war, layoffs
and increased poverty. At the same time as the
A.N.S.W.E.R. events in New York City, the World Social
Forum will gather tens of thousands of representatives
from every corner of the world in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to
discuss alternative visions.
The events in New York and Porto Alegre will mark a new
plateau in the people's capacity to organize, to reject
old classist models, and to build a better world.
Join the International ANSWER Coalition on February 1 and
2:
NO to war in Afghanistan and the Middle East!
NO to corporate-centered globalization!
YES to jobs, education, health care, and civil liberties!
TO ENDORSE THESE EVENTS, fill out our easy-to-use form at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/antiwef-endorse.html#endo.
TO BECOME AN ORGANIZING CENTER, fill out our easy-to-use
form at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/contacts.html#Center.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED], call: New
York 212-633-6646, Washington 202-543-2777, San Francisco
415-821-6545, Chicago 773-583-7728, or check out
www.InternationalANSWER.org.
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