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Shut Down the WEF in New York City

Anti-capitalist | 03.01.2002 04:53

An anti-capitalist call to shut down the New York meetings of the World Econimc Forum

Anti-Capitalist Convergence on the WEF Meeting
New York City

"The mayor-elect is greatly looking forward to this event and thinks it
sends exactly the right message about New York's role as the business
capital of the world," said Bloomberg spokesman Ed Skyler. City and
World Economic Forum officials also note that one factor working in
their favor is the diminished furor, particularly after Sept. 11, of the
American anti-globalization movement, which was never as aggressive as
its European counterpart."

Website (for this week):
 http://www.abolishthebank.org/wef2002.html

Official websites (will be active by the end of this week):
Another World is Possible Coalition
 http://www.anotherworldispossible.com/

Anti-Capitalist Covergence-New York City
 http://www.accnyc.org/

Updated: January 2, 2002

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@mail2usa.com)
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)
NYC Direct Action Network
Killing King Abacus (Santa Cruz, California)
Chumbawamba
Paul Krassner (the Realist)
Doug Henwood (Left Business Observer)
Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY)
The transnational corporations observatory (France)
Class War Baltimore
North American Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network (Eugene,
Oregon)
Mark Taylor, Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Professor of Religion and
Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary
Roots Media collective (NY)
Midnight Notes Collective, publishers of Midnight Notes
Connecticut Global Action Network (CGAN)
People's Law Collective (NYC)
Desiderata Collective (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
Steve Ongerth
la CLAC - Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes (Montreal, Canada)
Wu Ming (Italy)
The Thomas Paine Park Group (NYC)
CRAFT - Chicago Revolutionary Artists for Fair Trade
Daybreak Anarchist Collective (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Food not Bombs (Middletown, Connecticut)
Left Turn
San Francisco Independent Media Center
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (Washington, DC)
Hartford CT Food Not Bombs

To endorse, send the name of your group or your name to:
 info@abolishthebank.org

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