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Fiesta for Freedom to take to the streets
The World Trade Organisation is meeting in Cancun, Mexico, next week and
Melbourne will be joining rallies around the world in protest against
corporate globalisation and war.
The Melbourne rally, a Fiesta for Freedom under the slogan "No
globalisation at gunpoint", will start at the State Library, corner of
Swanston and Latrobe sts, at 5pm on Friday, September 12.
The AMWU and NTEU (Melb Uni branch) have both voted to back the rally.
The new MUA secretary, Kevin Bracken, will be speaking. The actors'
section of the MEAA is publicising the rally.
Peace activists, unionists, environmentalists, the Socialist Alliance
and Greens, Latin American groups and more will be joining the fiesta,
which will also feature puppets and street theatre.
Speakers will include Oxfam, the Victorian Peace Network, Friends of the
Earth, and a visiting Venezuelan student leader.
At the end of the rally, protesters will be invited to join a Reclaim
the Streets event at a secret location, with music and Mexican food
provided.
People at the rally will also be urged to attend a Victorian Peace
Network teach-in on war and globalisation the following day
(www.vicpeace.org).
CAN YOU HELP PUBLICISE THIS RALLY?
Things you can do include:
1) Forward this email to friends and networks.
2) Put up posters or hand out leaflets -- contact the phone numbers below.
3) Help on stalls. Those organised already are:
Melbourne Uni student union on Sept 9, 10, 11 -- from 11am to 2pm. If
you're not working, or can make it in your lunch break, we need you you
there. Ring James 0438 718 348 for details.
On Friday the 12th, we will be running a stall in the Bourke St mall
from 12 noon, with megaphoning, chalking, etc.
4) What else can you do to make this happen? Have you put the leaflet
out at work or around class? Have you asked friends? Have you raised it
in the union/peace group/organisation you're involved in? It's not too late.
For more information on the Fiesta for Freedom, contact: Cobina
Crawford, 0422 352 448, James Supple 0438 718 348, or David Glanz 0418
316 310.
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