new york meeting ...

[Guest guest]

i just got this, thought i would forward it...sorry if some of the cuss words

offend anyone....

 

 

CALL FOR AN ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE AGAINST THE WORLD

ECONOMIC FORUM IN NEW YORK CITY (JANUARY 31- FEBRUARY 4)

 

JOIN US AS NEW YORKERS STRIKE BACK AGAINST CORPORATE TERROR

 

For years now, the CEOs of major corporations, hundreds of top

international government officials and just plain rich people - from Bill

Gates to Bill Clinton - have been meeting every year in Davos, Switzerland.

This is where the real rulers of the world give the politicians their

marching orders. This is where the schemes that lead to atrocities like

GATT and the WTO are actually hatched. And this year, the dining club for

the world ruling class will be held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Midtown

Manhattan.

 

The WEF is moving here because they were effectively chased out of

Switzerland by a concerted campaign of direct action. They think that here

in New York we're shell-shocked, punch-drunk, and maybe we are but -

whaddya fuckin' kiddin' me?

 

This is a provocation. While thousands of New Yorkers are still burying

their dead, trying to patch together shattered lives, and desperately

trying to see how they can continue to pay insanely high New York City

rents after being laid off from their jobs, the richest and most powerful

men on earth have decided to come and party on the wreckage - to celebrate,

no doubt, the billions of dollars of taxpayer money they've just been

handed by their respective governments and explore new opportunities to

profiteer from permanent global warfare. Do they think we have no pride? No

self-respect? That we're just going to sit back and let this happen?

 

As our heroic firefighters have shown us, the moratorium on direct action

in New York is over.

 

We are calling for for a joyous, creative resistance to the WEF's stifling

grey culture of corporate conformity; actions whose diversity of tactics

will reflect the rich diversity of our city's communities. We are calling

for actions based on principles of non-hierarchy, passionate opposition to

patriarchy, white supremacy, and rule-by-elite, and the vision of a world

in which no one has to live in fear or daily terror. We are calling for a

world in which states and their wars, the economic violence and insecurity

promulgated by their corporate overlords, the hideous legacy of 500 years

of colonialism and racism, and the violence and intolerance of every kind

of crusader and religious fanatic will finally be banished from this earth.

 

It's not a pipe dream. Nothing is impossible if we refuse to live in fear.

 

WOULD YOU CARE TO JOIN US IN A SOCIAL REVOLUTION?

 

RSVP

 

Waldorf Astoria Hotel

New York City

January 31-February 4

 

 

 

 

ENDORSERS

 

Society for Creative Anarchism (Williamsburg, Virginia)

Zek Liberation Collective (Washington, District of Columbia)

Infoshop.org (Cyberspace)

flag.blackened.net (Cyberspace)

Arthur J. Miller, Bayou La Rose

Tension Collective (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Words Are Not Enough (Washington, District of Columbia)

R Stockwell, IWW, IU 610

White Pines Affinity Group (Albany, New York)

Instant Antiwar Action Group (Vermont / iaag)

Aron Pieman Kay - Global Pastry Uprising (Rainbow Affinity Group)

CrimethInc. Special Forces

NOLA Anarchy (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Kevin Keating, Mission Yuppie Eradication Project (San Francisco,

California)

Tute Nere Collective (Washington, District of Columbia)

we do not exist (n'existons pas)

Starhawk

Northwest Anarchist Prisoner Support Network

Free and Critter Legal Defense Committee

Cascadia Media Collective

le Sous-sol Collective (Eugene, Oregon)

Student Peace Action Network (SPAN)

Red And Black Flag Collective (Montreal)

Black Touta (Toronto, Ontario)

Anti-Capitalist Convergence Philippines

Chicago Direct Action Network

Chicago Anti-Capitalist Convergence

Blue Ridge Earth First!

Urban Guerrilla Division, Earth Liberation Front

Malachy Kilbride

Colorado Anarchist Network (CAN-Denver, Ft Collins, Boulder- wide)

Redneck Liberation Army (Richmond, Virginia)

New York City Direct Action Network

Paul Krassner (the Realist)

Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY)

Doug Henwood (Left Business Observer)

Chumbawamba

The transnational corporations observatory (France)

[Guest guest]

Thanks Fraggle - the more articles around like that, the better.

 

Jo

 

 

> CALL FOR AN ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE AGAINST THE WORLD

> ECONOMIC FORUM IN NEW YORK CITY (JANUARY 31- FEBRUARY 4)

>

> JOIN US AS NEW YORKERS STRIKE BACK AGAINST CORPORATE TERROR

 

 

 

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