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Raisethefist.com: CALL PUT OUT FOR MOBILIZATION AGAINST FTAA

CALL PUT OUT FOR MOBILIZATION AGAINST FTAA
by Companero Talent Mon Oct 6 23:48:15 PDT 2003

Can you even imagine how I feel about Miami? I know who among you can! This is the first time the FTAA is coming to the land occupied by the United States Government. Will you stand with all those in resistance to government and corporate powers that control, dominate and occupy our lives, resources and lands?

THERE IS A SECRET WORLD BENEATH THIS ONE

It exists on the fringes of human imagination- only because our
imagination has been stifled for years. It exists beyond the
boundaries of an all expansive society- only because we've
allowed this sickness to fester across the earth. But the real
world exists between bedsheets, on roofs, in words, and in
hearts and minds. You've touched it, perhaps. Or perhaps only
dreamed of it.

But this world, this world of infinite possibility, goes far beyond
your trivial fiction spy novels, and your romantic thrillers,
beyond sitcoms and dramas. Everything is possible when you
throw away your script.

THERE IS A SECRET WORLD BENEATH THIS ONE.

One filled with radicals and explorers, spelunkers of
consciousness, and those who would cringe at being called poet,
or artist, or dreamer- only because we are all poets, artists, and
dreamers.

It is in clubs and in minds, in manifestos and on streets. It is a
world of lovers and fighters, who've never fucked nor fought.

Do you want to join? Come on a trip with me, to Miami, to
Georgia, through our worst fears and our greatest dreams-
because we would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.

But once we destroy the heaven in which we serve, whose to say
that the ashes will be worse? If anything, we finally have enough
room to stretch our wings.

So come on Angels, take flight. See you all at the Gates! We'll
tear them down, cloaked in black, harbringers of possibility,
love, and war.

Come to Miami.
Come to Miami.
Come to Miami.
Come prepared.

Whoever told you that you are free
Is your enemy.

CALL PUT OUT FOR MOBILIZAION AGAINST FTAA

To the indigenous pueblos and all communities in resistance in
Mexico, Mesoamerica, and South America:
To the people in resistance in North America:
To the national and international press:

We are a group of anti-capitalists from around the east, south,
and midwest regions of the land occupied by the United States
government. We are women, men, gender queers, straight,
queer, parents, children, young, old, people of color, white,
privileged, underprivileged. From June 6-8, 2003 we met to
discuss our response and resistance to the upcoming Free Trade
Area of the Americas (FTAA) ministerial slated to take place
November 20-21, 2003. As a result of our collective discussion,
we declare:

We stand with all those in resistance to government and
corporate powers that control, dominate and occupy our lives,
resources and lands.

We reject the Free Trade Area of the Americas because it will:
diminish biodiversity and ecological integrity exploit people
across the world—women, children and people of color
in particular decrease workers' rights, safety and the right to
organize limit mobility of immigrants while allowing capital to
move more freely threaten the existence and autonomy of
indigenous communities undermine the self-determination of all
communities

We reject the privatization schemes for water, health care and
other essential public services.

We reject the militarization of all nations, which plays an
inherent and essential role in maintaining a capitalist order. We
also reject wars between nations that serve to cement that order.

We reject police violence and repression in our communities and
attacks on civil liberties in the United States.

We reject the Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP) and any corporate
centered development projects that do not consider the needs
and desires of the communities they affect.

We declare ourselves in solidarity with those who protest the
upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Cancún,
México.

We will vigorously mobilize to shut down the FTAA
ministerial meetings in Miami, November 2003.

We are confident in our struggle—the CEOs and the government
officials who do their bidding are few, we are 6,000,000,000.

We issue this declaration to inspire effective resistance to global
capitalism just as we are inspired by the many faces of
resistance in Latin America and Mexico to create a world with
dignity for all people. The communities of autonomy and joy
emerging from our struggles are not bound by state or country
lines, and in Miami we will cultivate this spirit throughout the
Americas—for all our sakes!

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ATTEND FTAA WITH AN AFFINITY GROUP

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MORE INFO REGARDING THIS SAME ISSUE

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Action for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central
America
http://www.asej.org/ACERCA/ftaa
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Citizens Trade Campaign
http://www.citizenstrade.org/ftaa.php
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Convergence of Movements of the Peoples of the Americas
http://www.sitiocompa.org/English/focusareas/1.htm
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First Hemispheric Meeting Against Militarization
http://www.antimil.org
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Florida Fair Trade Coalition
http://www.flfairtrade.org
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Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/ftaa
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Hemispheric Campaign Against the FTAA
http://www.movimientos.org/noalca
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John F. Henning Center for International Labor Relations
http://henningcenter.berkeley.edu/gateway/ftaa.html
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Latin America Solidarity Coalition
http://www.lasolidarity.org
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National Campaign to Stop CAFTA
http://www.cispes.org/english/Campaign_Against_CAFTA_FTAA
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Network Opposed to the Plan Puebla Panama (NoPPP)
http://www.asej.org/ACERCA/ppp/ppp.html
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People's Consultation on the FTAA
http://www.peoplesconsultation.org
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Peoples´ Global Action
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/ftaa
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Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
http://www.citizen.org/trade/ftaa
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Stop the FTAA!
http://www.stopftaa.org
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