NATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 27-30, 2001 Schedule of events 24/7
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For those of you who are interested in Washington DC events this weekend, this was forwarded to me from Campaign for Labor Rights:
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S29 - Tell Bush: NO to Racism and War - A Message from the International Action Center On September 29 we had planned to demonstrate against the Bush administration’s reactionary foreign and domestic policy and the IMF and World Bank. In light of the current crisis, with its tragic consequences for so many thousands of people, we have refocused the call for our demonstration to address the immediate danger posed by racism and the grave threat of a new war. All those who oppose racism should stand shoulder to shoulder with our sisters and brothers in the Arab, Muslim and other communities of color who are the victims of violence, scapegoating, harassment and intimidation in a racist frenzy that’s being created throughout the United States. We call on all people—Black, Latino, Asian, Arab, Native and white—to stand together and say no to racism. We urge all organizations to join together at this critical time. CALL TO ACTION Tell George Bush: WE SAY NO TO RACISM AND WAR! We demand that the government spend billions to rebuild New York City and compensate the victims of the September 11 bombing and their families, many of whom have lost not only loved ones, but also jobs, homes and health care – not for a new war against the people in the Middle East or elsewhere! Now is the time for all people of conscience, all people who oppose racism and war to come together. The government is attempting to take away our civil liberties and to create a climate in which it is impossible for progressive people to speak their mind. The Bush administration is attempting to take advantage of this crisis to militarize U.S. society with a vast expansion of police powers that is intended to severely restrict basic democratic rights. If you believe in civil liberties and oppose racism and war, join us on September 29 in front of the White House. MARCH AND RALLY Saturday, September 29, 11 a.m. In front of the White House This emergency leaflet issued by International Action Center DC:
This email comes to you from the Mobilization for Global Justice
scenario working group in Washington DC. We are
would like to begin building a broader consensus about a mass direct
action during Global Justice Week. Below you will find our thinking
about goals, intentions and possible actions. Please discuss
this with your groups and get back to us at: agcheckin@riseup.net
as soon as possible with your feedback and input.
You will also find the following information in this email:
Convergence Information, Direct Action Scenario, Demands, Action
Visions, Proposed Action Calendar, Solidarity actions, Affinity
Groups, Spokes Council, Legal Information, Housing, Contact Info
For the most up to date info. please visit www.globalizethis.org:
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The original plans for this action are below - NOTE these plans are postponed, and are just archived below:
DIRECT ACTION COMMUNITY CONVERGENCE
September 23rd - September 28th
Location TBA
The convergence will be a space for workshops including nonviolent
direct action, legal/jail/court solidarity, anti-oppression, affinity
group formation, legal observer training, blockade training, street
medic training, communications for direct action, scouting, media
messaging and more. Spokes councils will be held every night at
the convergence as well as all day art and puppet building.
MASS NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION INFORMATION FOR SEPTEMBER 29 & 30
We are planning large-scale, well-organized, high-visibility actions
to protest the IMF/World Bank meetings on Saturday and Sunday,
September 29-30= We will take direct action to open the meetings, to
make our demands, and t= engage more of civil society in the growing
discussion about corporate powe= versus justice, democracy and a
sustainable future. If we must, we will challenge the walls that
shut out people here and around the world from participating in the
decisions that impact our lives and communities. We envision
colorful and festive actions with street theater as a major element.
We will make space for a variety of non-violent action styles
reflecting our different groups and communities. We will also
act in a spirit of mutual-aid, respect and accommodation with all
groups and coalitions that are planning complimentary events and
actions independently from the Mobilization for Global Justice.
MOBILIZATION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE VISIONS FOR ACTION
The Mobilization for Global Justice joins the masses of people organizing for global justice in welcoming you to Washington DC this fall to protest the IMF and the World Bank. We have agreed to a few basic visions for action in order to facilitate the coming together of a broader, more divers= movement. This understanding should allow people from many backgrounds, movements, and beliefs to work together and encourages the movement-buildin= trust. These are not philosophical or political requirements or judgments; there are many ways to resist corporate globalization
.
VISIONS FOR ACTION
ACTION FRAMEWORK
We will take action to be seen and heard anywhere the delegates may be
in order to deliver our demands. In doing so we also
want to convey to all who are willing to see, our vision for another
world. We intend to do so through creative projects including
banners, puppets, theater, dance, spoke= word, through our courage and
willingness to sacrifice and through our ability to act in unity
embodying a new set of political practices that value direct
democracy, creativity, collective action, responsibility and
accountability to one another.
In order to accomplish this we are proposing a series of
activities on the days leading up to and following the two day meeting
on the 29th and 30th. Within this framework we are encouraging
different organizations, cluster= or affinity groups to
take responsibility for particular actions that spea= to their goals,
interests, issues or hearts.
We seek to build and coordinate these actions through an Action Spokes
Council that will meet in the days ahead. Up until that
time we ask for groups to provide feedback, creative ideas, logistical
support etc through the people who have contacted you about it.
We want to acknowledge that many other activities are already being
planned and this schedule does not encompass them all. Events
noted with ** are available for affinity group and cluster
participation and organizing, and are not fully planned. The
other listed events are being organized by othe= groups who are asking
for attendance and support.
For a complete calendar of actions and events please visit:
TUESDAY 25TH
-Immigrant Rights March
WEDNSDAY 26TH
-**Banner Actions**
-CITIGROUP Action
THURSDAY 27TH
-**Actions to Keep the Fence Open**
- pm Women's Torch Light March
FRIDAY 28TH
- am **Airport Leafleting / Actions**
- am Parking Lot Attendants Unite Action- HERE Local 27
- 10 am Rally and March for Clean Energy
- noon TACO BELL Action -Immokalee Farm Workers
- pm Rush hour - Stop Global Sweatshop Actions - UNITE
- **Evening March or Action**
SATURDAY 29TH
-(3-4 am) **Wake Up Call at the Hotels**
- (8-9 am) **Open the Meetings!** Cancel the Debt! Hear
Our Demands!
Morning mass action to attend the meetings.
- (2 pm- at IMF) Solidarity Marches! Both the
International Action Center and the Latin American Solidarity Groups
are planning marches to the White House and then the IMF around
mid-day.
- pm Interfaith Service and Candlelight March to the IMF/WB
SUNDAY 30TH
- **Another World is Possible**
- feeder marches from around DC to the IMF-WB that will bring images, props, photos, banners etc illustrating the world we are trying to build and the demands we are trying to advance. We
will engage in a positive, participatory direct action in creating
this
other world and then march as a unified group to the Ellipse in order
to join the permitted march and rally.
-Mass March, Rally (and concert) - a number of sponsoring groups
including the AFL-CIO are initiating a mass permitted event on Sunday
afternoon on th=Ellipse
MONDAY 1ST
-**Jail Solidarity Actions**
TUESDAY 2ND
-**Jail Solidarity and Vigil**
WEDNESDAY 3RD
-**Jail Solidarity and Vigil**
JAIL SOLIDARITY & LEGAL SUPPORT
We will encourage and facilitate jail and court solidarity for the
actions. Through jail solidarity we can take power in a situation
designed to make u= powerless. We do this by making our
decisions as a group, by acting in harmony with each other, and by
committing ourselves to safeguard each othe= 's well-being.
Every time there is a choice in the legal process, activist= can
refuse to cooperate, making things difficult for the authorities.
Through solidarity tactics, we use group non-cooperation to gain some
control, expedite the legal process and consequences, prevent the
authorities from singling some people out for harsher treatment, and
help u= resist fines and probation. Solidarity tactics extend
the action to the prison and legal system with the strength and
community of a group. We encourage action participants to clear
their calendars in advance for several days after the action, should
it become necessary to use a fill-the-jails tactic to win demands.
Those who want or need to leave will have that option open. We
will have legal support for those arrested through arraignment: this
includes legal and solidarity briefings, a staffe= legal support
office, and experienced lawyers who can make jail visits.
AFFINITY GROUPS, CLUSTERS & ACTION SPOKESCOUNCIL
Everyone participating in the actions is asked to form or join an
affinity group-a self-reliant action group of 5-20 people, including
people who do not risk arrest and do support work before, during and
after arrest. Affinity groups are the basic planning and
decision-making bodies for actions. Form an affinity group with
your friends, people from your community, workplace or organization.
Two or more affinity groups that hav= something in common or want to
do similar actions should consider working together as a
"cluster" of affinity groups. Leading up to the
actions, participants will coordinate through an Action Spokescouncil,
with group-designated spokespeople responsible for carrying their
group's plans, opinions and decisions to the spokescouncil and
reporting back to their group. Affinity groups will discuss
agenda items and proposals before each spokescouncil. Affinity
groups are encouraged to arrive on September 23, o= as soon thereafter
as possible, in order to participate in the spokescounci= 's planning
of the actions. If this is not possible, affinity groups shoul=
try to send at least one person early in the week. All direct
action participants should be in town and trained by the evening of
September 27. All participants are strongly urged to take part in
nonviolent direct actio= preparation workshops, which will combine
training with specific strategy t= prepare for both the action and for
jail/court solidarity. Trainings will be available in Washington
during the week leading up to the actions.
DEMANDS
We demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund:
-Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.
-Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using
the institutions' own resources.
-End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and economic austerity programs.) -Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people. -We furthermore demand that the United States government, the largest shareholder and most influential government in the World Bank and IMF, adop= the above demands, and work vigorously to compel the World Bank and IMF to implement them.
DEMANDS BY OTHER GROUPS (as we know them)
No to Fast Track, No FTAA, No New Rounds of the WTO, No To
Plan Columbia, Priority Treatment for Combating Aids, Amnesty Now for
All Immigrants,
CONTACT INFO:
Office:
Mobilization for Global Justice
C/O AFSC DC
1328 Florida Ave.
Washington DC 20009
(202) 265-7714
Working Groups:
ARTS & ACTION Angela Flynn 202-986-9455, alf@survival.bigmailbox.com
Listserv: artsinactiondc-owner@yahoo.com
CONCERT: Contact Gaurav Madan studentsforsocialchange@hotmail.com
EDUCATION: Monica Wilson 202-387-8030 mwilson@essential.org
FUNDRASING: Paul Osher 202-332-5060 paulosher@hotmail.com
MEDIA: Stacy Malkan smalkan@hotmail.com
MEDICAL: Jen Cohn, jennifer_cohn@hotmail.com,
215-668-1646
MESSAGING & MATERIALS: Daniel Holstein 202-270-8387 dholstein@starpower.net
OUTREACH: Michele B michele1917@yahoo.com Listserv:
LOGISTICS (housing and food): Laura 301-864-6132 laural88@yahoo.com
NUTS &BOLTS: Jen Carr 301-277-1581 jencarr3@cs.com
SCENARIO (Non-Permitted): agcheckin@riseup.net
SCENARIO (Permitted): Robert Weissman 202-387-8030 rob@essential.org
There is growing momentum for the September 29 National March on
Washington to Overturn the Bush Program. Hundreds of organizations and
prominent individuals have endorsed the call and are beginning to
organize for the march, which is timed to coincide with the first day of
the September 29-October 2 Washington DC convergence against the IMF and
World Bank.
The Latin American Solidarity Conference, including many important
national organizations, has decided to organize for September 29. They
will be conducting a rally focusing on U.S. interventionist policies in
Latin America and then march to the White House to join with the other
sectors who are uniting to fight back against the reactionary Bush
program.
Anti-racist and anti-death penalty forces will be mobilizing in force.
So will women's organizations, labor unions, lesbian/gay/bi/transgender
groups, peace organizations opposed to National Missile Defense and Star
Wars and many others.
CALL TO ACTION: During the week of convergence against the IMF and World
Bank:
A Call for Mass Action on Sept. 29, 2001: Defeat the Bush Program!
Anti-People, Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay, Pro-War: Only the Mobilization of
the People Can Stop It!
The reactionary administration of George W. Bush is moving at record
speed to give trillions more to the rich, undermine the labor movement,
rollback civil rights, women's, lesbian/gay and disabled rights, gut
environmental protections, and escalate militarism and the threat of new
wars.
Described as "further right than the Reagan administration,"
the Bush team is a collection of pro-corporate pirates and bigots who
are determined to demolish all rights except those of big business to
make unlimited profits. As one newspaper headline put it, "Happy
Days Are Here Again for Business Lobby."
There is only one force that can defeat the Bush program - the mass
mobilization of the people. A united and organized campaign bringing
together all those who will be hurt by the Bush program -
workers-employed and unemployed, people of color, women, lesbians, gay
men, bi, and transgender people, immigrants, disabled people,
environmentalists, everyone who needs heat and light - can succeed in
turning back this massive assault.
ENDORSE THE CALL TO ACTION TODAY! JUST FILL OUT THE ONLINE FORM AT http://home.earthlink.net/~npcboston/sep29end.htm
Beat Back the Bush AttackAlong with the IMF and World Bank, Bush promotes a strategy to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. There is only one force that can stop this attack: the mobilization of the people. On September 29 the White House will be surrounded by thousands who come to unmask George W. Bush as the face of globalization, capitalist greed, racism, union busting, sexism, homophobia, layoffs and war. This
mass action is part of “Another World is Possible—Solidarity
Weekend”, during which numerous events will once again challenge the
powers that be. A key part of these protests will be to oppose U.S.
intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean. More...
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