Mexico-US Border Action Project STOP THE FTAA Teach-In: �Para justicia sin fronteras/For justice without borders Wednesday, April 11, 2001 Free and open to the public 5:00 - 8:00 pm University of California, Irvine Student Center Room Emerald Bay A The Free Trade Area of the Americas is the latest globalization effort by corporations and governments in the Western Hemisphere. The FTAA aims to extend the NAFTA "free trade zone" to 31 more countries from Alaska to Argentina. It will make it easier for corporations to move jobs, increase profits and privatize public utilities and services. It will also increase the Race To The Bottom for workers, families and the environment. Learn more about it in this one day teach-in, then Join the Struggle to Stop The FTAA! SCHEDULE SESSION I 5:00 pm BLASE BONPANE Office of the Americas, Peace Center Coalition "Building the Peace Movement: US out of Colombia" CLAUDINE LOMONACO Chiapas Coalition '98 "NO-NAFTA, the lesson from the Zapatistas" BILL NEAL Los Angeles Stop the FTAA, US-Mexico Border Action Project, International Socialist Organization "What is the FTAA, and how can we stop it." MARISSA NUNCIO Sweatshop Watch "Immigrant rights" JOE PRICE Aerospace worker, laid off after 20 years of service "NAFTA and the race to the bottom for workers." DON WHITE CISPES, Southern California Fair Trade Network, Americans For Democratic Action (ADA) "Fight Back; The Resistance To a Corporate Global Agenda Escalates" SESSION II 7:00 pm Video Projection: �Movements at the border� on the militarization of the US-Mexico border. Sponsored by: �Academia & Action� UCI. University of California at Irvine is 2 min off the 73 freeway at the Bison exit. Go East and the road takes you right up to campus. Campus directions: http://www.uci.edu/campusmap FOR MORE LOCAL INFO, CONTACT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GENERAL INFO ON THE BORDER ACTION: http://parksmanagement.com/border ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends! http://us.click.yahoo.com/03IJGA/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/7zNVlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN-ANNOUNCE: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network - Event Announcements --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=laamn-news> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn-announce> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <http://home.labridge.com/~laamn> | LAAMN | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
