The W.E.F. hits New York - And all eyes are on New York, aga

[Dreadnaht1]

If there is already another post on this, and I don't think there is, please tell me.

This year the World Economic Forum will be meeting in New York City for their annual meeting which is usually held in Switzerland. The meeting will take place at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Midtown Manhattan and it will include such normal attenders of the meetings like Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and every other richy involved in world economics there is.

I mean we're talking absolute pure evil at this meeting. While the meeting itself will not sign any treaties or have any immediate effects it should be noted that this meeting has also given birth to the likes of GATT and the infamous WTO. And THIS MEETING WILL DICTATE THE FUTURE OF CAPITALIST AMERICA.

It is up to communists, leftists, anti-imperialists, anti-americans, socialists, anti-opressors, anti-fascists and anyone who opposes U$A and it's evils to head to New York city and pose the ultimate opposition and show these fucks we're no longer their slaves. We must show them that the people still have some power and by opposing and protesting this meeting we can finally divert the direction of the U$A's capitalism. I mean just look at the country now. We've got a super capitalist in office directing the flow of money from all countries into our bank accounts, we have the ever incriminating foreign policy, world domination, the people are controlled by their televisions, south america is in ruins, and the world is controlled by this country--what better time to demonstrate that we are still a threat to their plans?

ANY PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THE OUTCOME OF THIS CAPITALIST SUPER MEETING AND THOSE WHO CAN GET TO NEW YORK CITY BY JANUARY 31-5 SHOULD DO SO TO HELP DEMONSTRATE THEIR OPPOSTION!

It should also be taken notice that the security at the meeting will be absolutely insane. I can only imagine that there will be thousands if not hundreds of thousands of police, national guard, SWAT members and everything else roaming the street. Rubber bullets and tear gas will be plentyful, not to mention their accomplices mace and nightstick. So if you do decide to try and make it to the protest you should be well prepared. Any and every counter-measure must be taken against the opressive police. I recommend bringing a copy of Guerilla Warfare ;)

Best of luck to getting there, if you are able to do so.

Hopefully, I will see you there!

-Dread

Check this for more info: http://www.raisethefist.com/news.cgi?artic...3903t4a.article (http://www.raisethefist.com/news.cgi?artical=wire/83903t4a.article)

[Derar]

ohh man , i wish i can get an airplane ticket and go there ........ but i dont have the money to !
but if i go there and protest , and they found that i came from the middle east , their gonna arrest me for bombing the wtc !! haha .......
then they r gonna take me to a secret war court , get an execution order in 30 minutes , put me on an electric chair ........ and burn my ass !

[Kez]

But then the red army (us lot) would storm the execution place, and save you comrade!

comrade kamo

[Derar]

that would be cool .......

then we would make a big revolution in the USA , and turn it into a socialist/communist country .

[flames of the flag]

the battle of new york.
more evil will be taking place in ny than on 911.
to bad i can't go, being thirteen my parents won't let me. I will however watch you guys on tv and my thoughts will be with you.
one of my teachers will be there.he was at quebec too, wich kinda sucks since he teaches my favorite class but our point must be heard. good luck comrades

[Dreadnaht1]

Because of this topics growing importance and the actual event is only a week away I figure it needs to be at the top of the forum.

"From Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, more than 1,500 corporate leaders and their political allies will be gathering in New York City for the meeting of the World Economic Forum. The annual meeting held in Davos, Switzerland since 1971, was moved to New York City this year due in part to growing protests at the Swiss Alps ski resort in recent years by groups opposed to the forum's agenda promoting corporate-led globalization.

Over the years, discussions at the World Economic Forum have spawned the creation of controversial institutions such as the World Trade Organization and have supported free trade economic policies. Similar to what's occurred at other recent global summit meetings, thoU$Ands of labor, environmental and student activists from the U.S. and around the world are planning to greet the elite delegates as they come to New York for the forum with protests, street theater and teach-ins.

Scott Harris, host of popular radio show Between the Lines, spoke with Michael Dolan, deputy director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, who discusses the history of the World Economic Forum, the planned protests and the concern that in the post-Sept. 11 environment in New York City, police may not tolerate dissent and instead label those engaged in direct action as "terrorists."

Michael Dolan: The World Economic Forum (WEF) is essentially a ruling class caucus. It's an elite member-based institution funded by approximately 1,000 multinational corporations. Some of them pay as much as $300,000 per year for the privilege. They gather in sort of a clubby kind of environment and then they hatch plans that relegate or subordinate civil society values: labor, environment, sustainability, consumer and human rights. They subordinate all those values to their bottom line, geopolitical interests and their corporate interests.

We'll be there, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, and a lot of different organizations are mobilizing to confront the WEF there. We certainly expect the top brass of the Bush administration to go to New York to be a part of the welcome, a part of the discussions: Bush, Cheney, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, probably Robert Zoellick, the U.S. Trade Representative.

We're going to take the opportunity in the streets of New York, and in parallel forums in Manhattan, to describe our critique of the WEF, but also to petition our government for the redress of grievances relating to the neoliberal economic model. I encourage people to mark their calendars for a few days to proclaim our critique loudly to the press and to the policy and corporate elites in New York City.

Scott Harris: You describe the decision by the World Economic Forum organizers to come to New York City as a brilliant public relations strategy. Do you mean that there is some thought on the part of the WEF organizers that the protests they've encountered in Switzerland may not be tolerated or permitted in New York City, given the tragic events of Sept. 11?

Michael Dolan: That's exactly what I mean. I think they've really in many ways set a trap for this movement, for the anti-globalization movement.

In all the "summit stalking" that's gone on since the "battle in Seattle" over two years ago against the World Trade Organization, there's always been some rowdiness, some property destruction at the periphery requiring police to chase protesters, and "black-clad anarchists" around and all the rest. Well, by going to New York in the aftermath of the events of September at a time when the New York City Police Dept. is incredibly popular nationally, even globally, it creates the opportunity for enormous sympathy for them having to deal with protesters and it could have the effect of further marginalizing the anti-globalization movement.

So it's imperative for us to maintain really peaceful, explicitly non-violent protests. No less dramatic, no less creative, no less militant, but in no way should we try to engage the New York City Police Dept. The press will marginalize us, the corporate elites will marginalize this movement. And after the loss of the Fast Track trade legislation in the House, that very narrow vote on fast track, after the launch of the World Trade Organization ministerial in November and certainly after the events of September, it could be a public relations catastrophe for this movement to get further marginalized.

It's very important that we get out there and prove that we're as broad and wide and deep and sophisticated a movement as we have always been and we do not allow ourselves be marginalized by the mainstream media.

Scott Harris: When it comes to the goals of the opponents of neoliberal economic policies and the work of the World Economic Forum, what are those objectives? What do people want to accomplish, what is the message that they want to send out?

Michael Dolan: First of all, there's going to be a lot of noise about the war. The basic critique obviously being that it is in fact the real life effects of the neoliberal model, the social injustice, the growing income gap globally, "the haves and have nots," that has caused so much of the animosity toward the United States, for example. And so looking at the real causes of terrorism, of the war, making the link between militarism and the neoliberal model is going to be one piece of the agenda.

Second, we'll be calling on those political elites to foreswear a flawed and failed free trade model. Additionally, it's important that we frame our critique of the World Economic Forum and the neoliberal model within a context of the search for alternatives and what another world will look like. In fact, the local organizing in New York is gathering around this notion of "another world is possible." The Another World is Possible coalition in New York, arising out of the Direct Action Network, the Independent Media Center and your usual collection of non-governmental organizations that look at this, including Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, will be having press conferences beforehand, panels and plenaries throughout, marches, vigils and rallies on the street and then ending up with some summary events which will proclaim, not only our critique of the World Economic Forum and its agenda, but also our search for alternatives, the alternatives that we are recommending to the policy elites as well as to the mainstream media."

www.thecriticalvoice.com

-Dread




(Edited by Dreadnaht1 at 11:23 pm on Jan. 23, 2002)

[9mm Rebel]

Oh how I'd love to be there..... too bad I'm going to new york for spring break with my friend.. gonna miss it.

I'm tryin to get my friends interested in Che, and communism, and revolution in general, and the one I'm going with seems to be very open to it.

If you know of anything going on in New York, during the spring-time, please let me know, via the board, or by email: [email protected]

If you find anything out, please let me know.. (by finding anything out, I mean anything regarding meetings of capitalist's, or known oppressive groups.. if ya know what im sayin :P)

[Kez]

Fucking tried to persuade my school buddies to turn red, but they too comfortable with being the tools of the system
*shakes head*

comrade kamo

[Dreadnaht1]

Disgusting I know, Kamo (no rime intended).

9mm, I'll keep my out for events, as always, but I do know for a fact that the CPU$A (Communist Party of U$A) is open all year to anyone interested. I personally have not been there but a few comrades I know have been there before.

www.cpU$A.org <----replace the $ with a S (Malte's evil doings)

-Dread

(Edited by Dreadnaht1 at 1:55 am on Jan. 25, 2002)

[rebel with a cause]

I wanna go there and get my ass whipped for doing something that i thought according to the Constitution was legal, i was already chattin with dread on this, but for anyone that's going, I don't think violence should be used, yes I know the police are gonna incite shit, after all, we're trying to halt these greedy mother fuckers from making the rich richer and poor poorer, but because these evil geniouses in DC chose NY as the site, all these ignorant Americans with thier FDNY & NYPD hats (but still i give those guys props you know trying to save people, firemen do a great job and police as well, {well, the uncorrupted, non-racial profiling ones anyways}) now the NYPD is gonna be out in force, and if we fight them, all of America is gonna go on their side, it makes the WEF look good, it makes us look bad, our voices will not be heard, and we will only push back our revolution, anyways that was just stuff i was thinkin about

peace out to my commrades

and those that'll be in NY, my thoughts are with you
(wear padding to soften the baton blows)


(Edited by rebel with a cause at 9:04 am on Jan. 25, 2002)

[Edelweiss]

OK, I have diabled the USA=U$A thing again now, just wanted to try out the bad word filter and tease the right-wingers a bit...

[CommieBastard]

:(

[Dreadnaht1]

Don't worry, Malte, there's only one way to spell U$A. And there's also only one way to spell greed--U$A

Rebel w/ A Cause, soft clothes would be good but I was originally planning on Flakk Jackets and gas masks. Why must the mindless nationalists always ruin my fun?

-Dread

[Dreadnaht1]

Coming on the homestrech now, less then ten hours. Any predictions what will happen? Another Seattle? Worse then that? Will they stop the WEF?

-Dread