Palm Beach Co. Anarchists Drop Banner in Solidarity with Protests in Prague

[from the newly forming Lake Worth, FL Anarchist Collective on the morning of S26]

Press Release
Tuesday, September 26, 2000

At 7:00 a.m., this morning, on northbound I-95 between Lantana and 6th Ave South on the walking bridge, a large banner reading, "Globalize Resistance to Corporate Power; Shut Down the World Bank," urged uncompromising solidarity with those struggling around the world against the plunder of resources in communities by profiteering companies and unaccountable politicians who often align themselves with big business.

Today the World Bank/ International Monetary Fund (IMF) will attempt to meet in Prague. These two global institutions of capital have recently been under public scrutiny, exposing their agenda of imposed economic development on poor countries. This has resulted in wider gaps between affluent and impoverished peoples, in turn creating groundwork for civil wars, ecological catastrophe, and slave labor conditions in producing goods for "first-world'" nations. But so-called "developed'" countries such as the United States do not escape these results of the new global economy, For America, it means loss of union jobs, lower standards for labor and environmental protection, and essentially the same Structural Adjustments that we are seeing in poor communities internationally.

But as you read this, our resistance to these policies also grows to a global scale. We are putting the social disease of capitalism to rest, and in its place actualizing a future based on mutual aid and voluntary co-operation. We are spending sleepless nights creating a life worth living for all who desire it and we are everywhere ... so don't just report this story, JOIN US!!!

For more info on events in Prague: www.imcpraha.org.

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