Anti-Globalization action - in sacramento

[abstractmentality]

MOBILIZE IN SACRAMENTO! CONVERGE JUNE 20-25 2003!

This June the Bush administration, USAID, USDA, and the State Department are hosting government ministers from 180 nations and transnational corporate reps in a meeting to pave the way for ‘free trade’, privatization of water, and factory farming: agribusiness that drives family farmers off the land, hijacks the global food supply and starves the poor. Stand in solidarity with people’s movements and peasant farmers around the world to protest and disrupt this meeting. Free trade agreements such as the CAFTA and FTAA are most vulnerable on issues of agriculture - the global negotiations on these issues are crumbling and the WTO dispute over biotech is brewing. The Bush Administration wants to ensure agribusiness as usual.

Their agenda? Biotech foods, animals and forests…food irradiation…terminator seeds…’free trade’ for corporate crooks…pesticides and patents on life…biopiracy…widening the gap between the rich and poor...privatization of water, indigenous wisdom, seeds, biodiversity, and the genetic building blocks of life itself…

Our response? A festival of diverse resistance to big biotech, bioimperialism, the Bush Administration and ‘free trade’. Non-violent direct action, marches, rally, teach-in, alternative expo and more to confront the corporate agenda of ‘free trade’ and war on the earth! Demand food sovereignty, safe food and farmers’ rights!

JOIN USin the streets of Sacramento for a five-day convergence of action and education! We will join the world in saying no more hunger, no more genetic engineering, no patents on life and no WTO!

Plug IN to the convergence…

http://www.sacmobilization.org/

[Dirty Commie]

I'm gonna beg to go.

That looks kick @$$

[Pete]

I support globalization. Just not the capitalist kind, so I am hardly an anti-globalist. I am more a "global village" person than a "global corporate military camp" onethough.

[abstractmentality]

i support globalization, but not in the social context of which it is currently taking place. capitalist globalization is something we should all fight against. when you think about it, it really is the true exploitation of the world, it is the ethnocide of the world cultures by the "dominant" culture. Especially with agriculture. i was talking with a professor at my college a few weeks back in his car on our way to a protest, and he was telling me about things like the terminator seed, the effects of which will be exacerbated by globalization.

now, if, tomorrow their began a communist revolution in american, which eventually would then leads to the world revolution, then i am all for that globalization, as that will be done in a drastically different manner. because i believe that form of globalization will not kill cultures (as can be seen in the death of the cultural text tile industry in parts of africa due to second hand clothing coming from orgs like the Salvation Army, as well as many other instances) and will be a global system of socialism, i will support it. of course, if/when it deviates from that, i will be dissident towards it, just as i am today.

not sure if this puts me in the same camp as you...

(Edited by abstractmentality at 4:07 pm on June 5, 2003)

[Pete]

We are in the exact same camp. I just disagree with the 'anti-globalizatoin' title that is handed to us for opposing the mass rape of capitalism.

[abstractmentality]

i personally dont mind it, as we name things according to the social context in which they apprear and are constructed to fit. globalization, in its current form, is capitalist. hence, i dont mind being called an "anti-globalization-ist" now. however, like i said before, if this was a communist globalization, the meaning of the term would be different because of the different context. hence, until that happens, i will continue to be an anti-globalization-ist.

[Dirty Commie]

This sucks, I can't go, Be sure to take pics and post.