Actions Against the World Economic Forum

Friends and comrades, please take a moment to read this important message, and please forward along.

From Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, the World Economic Forum (WEF) will be meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan for its annual summit. Alexander Downer, who attended the 1998 Summit, describes the Summit as the world's 'Business Olympics'. The yearly meeting, usually held at WEF headquarters in Davos, Switzerland, was rescheduled to meet in New York as a token of support for the injuries our city sustained on September 11th. In reality, this meeting and the agenda it represents are an affront to the people of New York, who, like many others around the world, face a period of economic uncertainty and austerity which threatens their very livelihoods.

The WEF is, in a way, a big cocktail party for the global corporate elite. As an organization, it has no power to actually set policy, but it creates a space in which international "leaders" can hash out their vision for the rest of us. In their own words, "they are fully engaged in the process of defining and advancing the global agenda." More specifically, it's our globe, but it's their agenda.

One way in which the WEF has advanced this “agenda” was by helping to create the notorious World Trade Organization (WTO).

For the first time in many years, anti-capitalist protest has returned to the capitalist heartland, and to the global stage. These protests open up the ideological space for the articulation of alternative guiding principles, putting on the agenda the possibility of transformation away from the current pro-corporate malaise.

As the promotion of capitalist discipline is questioned, protest targeted at the agents of neo-liberal globalization gains remarkable political leverage. In this political climate WEF meetings start to take on a special significance. Since 1996 the WEF has attracted increasingly militant opposition, and it has responded by attempting to re-chart the neo-liberal project. The WEF response is to deliberately avoid the appearance of backroom strategizing, and instead to seek a higher public profile, attempting to reground its legitimacy by being seen to engage with prominent advocates of the emerging alternatives. But in reality the WEF meetings are still overwhelmingly comprised of the most powerful and wealthy corporations, individuals, and government officials; in fact, mostly male and mostly representative of the developed countries.

Below you will find links to information on how you could get involved in the planning and carrying out of diverse, imaginative, and impassioned actions against the WEF, including actions in the streets, a counter-summit being held at Columbia University, and an evening concert. The main day of action is being planned for Saturday, Feb 2.

Please join the people of New York and the world from Jan 31 to Feb 4 as we say “NO!” to corporate globalization, neo-liberalism, global economic apartheid, militarism, and the destruction of our planet; as we present our vision of another, more just, democratic, and sustainable world.

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“Another World is Possible” Coalition:
http://www.anotherworldispossible.com/

Stop the WEF and mobilize for global justice. Site features a comprehensive calendar of events and information on logistics such as housing, subway maps, and maps of the Waldorf.

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“Globalizing Justice”:
http://www.studentsforglobaljustice.org/ A Call for a WEF Counter-Summit and National Student Mobilization From Thursday, January 31st to Sunday, February 3rd 2002 at Columbia University in New York City Featuring speakers, workshops on a variety of topics, and more.
*Deadline for proposing workshops is Jan 11.
Check the site for schedules, information on housing, etc., and subscribe to these lists for more detailed information or to help plan:

http://www.studentsforglobaljustice.org/contact.htm
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“Anti-Capitalist Convergence Against the World Economic Forum”:
http://www.accnyc.org/

JOIN US AS NEW YORKERS STRIKE BACK AGAINST CORPORATE TERROR! SHUTDOWN THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM !

Join us January 31st (Thursday) through February 1st (Friday) in NYC for two days of workshops, infosessions, and teach-ins held in conjunction with The Another World Is Possible Coalition, Eye on Davos, and The National Student Mobilization.

After Friday's activity has ended, a legal vigil will be held in Union Square, followed by a spokes council, to which each affinity group is invited to send a representative. Please send a member who is familiar with the processes of facilitation and consensus.

February 2nd (Saturday) will be the universal day of action against the World Economic Forum. Legal marches and rallies are being planned by The Another World Coalition and The International ANSWER Coalition. ACCNYC is in the process of determining its rolein the street action.

More info will be available soon. Check back for scenario updates:
www.accnyc.org

Start spreading the word! Flyers and Agitprop will be soon available here:
www.accnyc.org/outreachIndex.html
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*NOTE: for those of you who will be in town:

THE REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING AGAINST THE WEF
Saturday, January 19 @ 2pm
Chashama Theatre - 129 W 42nd St
(Between Bdway & 6th in Times Sq)

The NYC Anti-Capitalist Convergence calls on all anarchists and anti-authoritarians to join us for a regional organizational meeting in preparation for the mass mobilization against the WEF, January 31 to February 4.

For more information contact -
David Graeber
drg9@drg9.mail.yale.edu

Note - Space on Times Square has been provided for this meeting by The Intergalactic Anarchist Convention - Jan 17 to Jan 20:

Proceeds benefit May Day Books and WEF actions-related legal funds.
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check www.nyc.indymedia.org for coverage of the events.
other relevant links:
http://www.citizen.org/
http://www.otherdavos.net/
http://www.davos2001.ch/
http://www.buko24.de/

===== "... civil disobedience... is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem."
-Howard Zinn

"It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out..."
-Assata Shakur

The commies and anarchists are going to use NYC as a stage for anti-capitalist protest and violence .
I'm no fan of the WEF and WTO, but make no mistake: the protestors are our enemies. These people support Communist Globalism and oppose Capitalism and liberty.

From Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, the World Economic Forum (WEF) will be meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan for its annual summit.

Damn...this means those activist freaks are probably going to try and trash the Waldorf - one of the nicest hotels in the country. The last thing anyone in NYC needs is more violence right now. I wouldn't put it past a regular New Yorker to just beat the crap out of an activist. Tensions there are already high.

I'm no fan of the WEF and WTO, but make no mistake: the protestors are our enemies. These people support Communist Globalism and oppose Capitalism and liberty.

Maybe fools .... maybe not.

Do you know who the Zaparistas are? Have you seen their website?

Zapatistas web site

These are the people who are invading California. They are organized and have money. They are fighting a revolution in Mexico. They conduct terror attacks. They raise millions internationally.

The Zapatistas are the revolutionaries who received that huge Chinese arms shipment delivered to Long Beach, California on a COSCO ship .... the shipmnt was tracked b the FBI but there was a telephne call from the White House. The shipment was delivered to Mexico, and only one truckload of arms was captured by the FBI.

The Zapatistas now run a Mexican labor "union" which virtually has control of the food service industry in California.

You are right about the anarchists being our enemies, but they are not the danger to our society that the globalist cartels are. They are our unelected rulers. GW, Tony Blair, et al. are just puppets on a string.
1. You need to understand that commies are not anti-gglobalist. They are anti-corporate globalism. They support socialist forms.

2. If you oppose the NWO, you need to make sure that the anarchists do not become the voice of the opposition. you should fight the anarchists, while getting publicity for your reasoned opposition to the NWO.

You must not know how to use a search engine. I just typed "World Economic Forum" into goggle.com and got 95,800 hits. It's the NWO planning party.
You must be a literal idiot.
I oppose the UN, the WTO, and world gov't. If you had looked at my webpage, this would be clear.

If you oppose the NWO, you need to make sure that the anarchists do not become the voice of the opposition. you should fight the anarchists, while getting publicity for your reasoned opposition to the NWO.

Such was my intent. As I have mentioned before, the Bildebergers are not a rival of McDonalds. but of our culture.

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