The Bay Area Coalition to Stop the FTAA is a broad
coalition of groups including large NGOs and small grassroots organizations,
as well as concerned citizens, who are adamantly opposed to the Free Trade
Area of the Americas Agreement, to Fast Track, and to the undemocratic
way that this agreement is currently being developed and drafted (that
is, in secret, with no public or congressional oversight, and with no information
or text available to the public).
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As most of you already know, like the WTO and IMF/World
Bank mass mobilizations that preceded it, the resistance to the FTAA is
basically the NEXT showdown with Corporate Capital at the trade policy
level: a LOT is happening around it!
Friday, February 23, 2001
4:30 pm at Market and Post (2nd St.)
outside Senator Feinstein's office
5:30 pm Procession
Join the Bay Area Coalition to Stop the FTAA,
SF
Zapatista
Committee, and Colectivo Apoyo
Latinamericano in a celebration of life
without corporate rule and the kick-off of the
Bay Area mobilization to stop
the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)--a
trade agreement far worse than
NAFTA that will optimize Global Capital's exploitation
of people and planet
in the entire Western Hemisphere! This event
will include putting our
elected officials on notice, a street party with
dance, drums, music,
theater, puppets, and spoken word, and a lively
procession/corporate tour of
shame along Market Street to the Flood Building
at Powell, home of the
Mexican Consulate, where we will celebrate our
solidarity with the heroic
Zapatistas who rose up against NAFTA and will
be heading to Mexico City on
Feb 25 to negotiate for the signing of the
For more information on the action and/or to
get involved . Read
the action
announcement.
San Francisco:
Sunday March 4, 2001 from 3-5 pm
Cell Space
2050 Bryant
(in the Mission between 18th and 19th, a brisk
walk from the 16th Street BART
or take the 22 MUNI bus to 16th and Bryant and
walk down two blocks)
Theater! Speakers! Break-out sessions!
Learn about and find out how we can stop
one of the most undemocratic and exploitative
corporate trade policies yet: The Free
Trade Area of the Americas Agreement--targeting
the entire Western Hemisphere.
East Bay:
Tuesday, March 20, 2001 from 7-10:30 pm
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck
Berkeley, CA
(Two blocks up from the Ashby BART stop, cross
street Woolsey)
Theater! Speakers! Break-out Sessions! Find out
how the Free Trade Area of
the Americas Agreement will exploit workers,
the environment, immigrants,
indigenous peoples, women and children all in
the name of "free trade," and
what we can do to stop it!
Details to follow
San Diego/Tijuana
Get involved with the border
action committee to help plan sending an SF
delegation to the border
action in late April.
Join us! There are many ways to get involved (with varying degrees of commitment of course).
Subscribe to the e-mail listserve
e-mail
Come to the next general
organizing meeting
Tuesday February 20, 2001
6:30 pm at Centro del Pueblo
474 Valencia St. at 16th
Second Floor all the way to
the back and to the left.
latest meeting
notes
Come to the next committee
meetings
Action Committee
Tuesday
February 21, 2001
5-6
pm at Global Exchange, 3rd floor
2017
Mission at 16th (16th Street BART)
contact
Mike at or
latest
meeting notes
Education/Outreach
Committee
Wednesday
February 28, 2001
7
pm at CHRIA (1st floor) in Centro del Pueblo
474
Valencia St. at 16th
Education:
contact Antonia at or
Outreach:
contact Dorrit at or
latest
meeting notes
Border
Action Committee
Tuesday
February 13, 2001
7:00
pm at the Long Haul
3124
Shattuck Avenue @ Woolsey St.
(2
blocks from Ashby BART)
contact
Mike at or
latest
meeting notes
Help out with the webpage
To be involved in the web
committee e-mail