Greetings! June 18th 1999 is set to be a day of protest, action and carnival in financial centres across the globe - an International Day of Action Against Globalisation. Here in Melbourne a bunch of us have been getting together each week to discuss ways to make the day as powerful a statement as possible. The idea of June 18 is simultaneous actions around the world - targeting the corporations and institutions that are engineering and profiting from the globalisation of capital. We encourage your group to organise an autonomous action of some description on this day. If groups and individuals from all walks of life act together on this one day - recognising our common enemies, June 18 will contribute to the process of making connections and building alternatives to the current social order. This action is timed to coincide with the meeting of the G8 in Koln, Germany - when the heads of the richest nation- states get together to discuss their role in the economic rationalisation of all our lives. Again we will be told by the economic and political elites that the promotion of economic globalisation, 'free' trade and corporate dominance is the only way 'forward'. Around this time there will also be a tour of Indian farmers/activists around Europe to campaign against the World Trade Organisation, banks and multinational corporations. By acting on the same day across the world - we make our resistance as transnational and global as capital itself. The possibilities of your involvement as individuals or as a group are endless - we encourage you to participate in whatever way you choose: strikes, protests, pickets, actions, occupations, street parties, demonstrations, blockades, shut-downs, trouble-making... June 18 falls on a Friday, and at this point we plan to kickstart the day at around 8.30am with a free breakfast under the Flinders St clocks. What happens after that will be up to us all! So start dreaming about who you would most like to target - and how you can go about it! The J18 Committee meets every Thursday at 6pm in Meeting Room 1 at RMIT (near the Womens Room and RMITV) - everyone is welcome, but you don't have to come to the meetings to start planning your own events for the day. We also have an email chat list happening which you can join by emailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and requesting instructions. We can also be contacted by snail mail at PO Box 199, Brunwick 3056 or by phone on 9387 6646. LL.VF -- Alister Air | The problem is, of course, that Faculty Computing Manager (HSS) | not only is economics bankrupt Information Technology Division | but it has always been nothing University of Technology Sydney | more than politics in disguise. Ph: 9514 1277 Fx: 9514 1595 | Hazel Henderson
