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Global resistance
to capitalism is finally on the rise again! On September 26-28,
the IMF and World Bank are holding their 55th annual summit in Prague.
A mass mobilisation of people to Prague is well underway. On September
26 people from around the world will express their opposition to
the World Bank and the IMF. People of the world will join together
in an expression of solidarity with the demonstrators in Prague
at simultaneous actions in major cities.
Anarchist Activities
at S26
- What can North American anarchists do?
At this time, anarchists should
be spreading the word about the upcoming actions
in Praque. Talk to your friends, put up flyers,
and plan teach-ins for early September. You
should also start planning solidarity actions
for your town (ask around to see if other groups
are already making plans). Given that most of
us are working class people, we can't all fly
to Europe to be at the Prague actions. Still,
it's important for us to get as many anarchists
there as possible. One of the things your local
affinity groups can do is to organize fundraisers
in early September so you can give a little
money to your local anarchists who want to go
to Prague.
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Anarchist Briefing Center on the
World Bank and IMF
- IndyMedia
- Prague
- <S26
Photo Wire
- <Irish
eyewitness report from Prague
- <URGENT
Action to Support Jailed Prague Protestors
- <Infernal
Noise Brigade in Action
- <Prague:
In the Nick
- <S26
- DC: "for Workers' Rights at InterPark" Downtown
Wash DC 09.26.00
- <Capitalism
and communism look equally bad in Prague
[Globe and Mail]
- <S26
Montreal: Solidarity with Prague ... Looking
ahead
- <S26
- Portland, OR: Protesters clog streets downtown
- <Prague:
Sombre, Reflective Mood at IMF After Violent
Clashes
- <Russia,
More on S26 in Moscow
- <S26:
Palm Beach Co. Anarchists Drop Banner in Solidarity
with Protests in Prague
- <S26:
Tucson S26 Event
- <IMF
carries on in protesters' shadow
- <Protesters
Parade Through Prague
- <Hundreds
march on WalMart in Western Mass for S26
- <Melbourne
Solidarity Action
- <S26
action in Geneva, Switzerland
- <New
York S26 Solidarity Demo
- <Providence,
RI to Prague, CR
- <S26
Solidarity in Gainesville, FL USA
- <S26
in Pittsburgh
- <Hundreds
rally in Chicago in solidarity with Prague protesters
- <Solidarity
actions in Stavanger, Norway
- <S26
in Belo Horizonte, Brasil
- <Solidarity
S26 picket in Wroc³aw
- <Police
confront protesters in downtown Portland
- <Denver
protests mirror Prague
- <Solidarity
march in Melbourne with S26 Protests
- <S24:
Hundreds Rally In Seattle To "Cancel The Debt
Now!"
- <IMF
rejects debt moratorium
- <Dozens
injured in Prague clashes
- <Dozens
injured in Prague clashes [MSNBC]
- <S26: 400 Turn Out in
Washington, DC for S26 Solidarity Action
- Around 400 people, most of them union members and activists
who were involved in last Spring's protests
of the World Bank/IMF, braved the early morning
drizzle to rally in support of local parking
lot attendents who are trying to unionize.
- <Prague:
Demonstrators Break Police Lines and Get to
IMF Meeting Site
- <Prague:
Anti - IMF Protests Turn Violent As Meetings
Start
- <Prague:
Protesters Clash with Police at IMF Meeting
[Yahoo]
- <S26
Prague: Protesters and police clash in Prague
- <Street
Protests Greet Finance Summit
- <A
Demonstrator Throws a Rock at Police in Prague
- <Prague:
Anarchists Hang Banners on the Congress Center
bridge
- Another great picutre here.
- <Prague
Protests Heating Up
- <Problems
of Neoliberalism
- <ANTI-IMF
RIOTS sweep DEVELOPING WORLD
- <Czech
protesters opt for spectacular
- <Police
turn protesters away in run-up to IMF meet
- <Prague:
Italian train allowed to leave
- <IMF,
W.Bank warn delegates Tuesday may be tricky
- <Protesters
begin gathering in Prague [MSNBC]
- <Prague:
Seattle activists arrested after hoax bomb scare
- <S26:
Border update : The Italians blocking train
access to Czech Republic
- <Thousands
Of Protesters Turned Away At Czech Border
- <International
Anarchist Statement on S26
- <Prague:
Protesters to face down money men
- <Prague
Protesters Bone Up Before Globalization Talks
- Reclaim
The Streets! Naperville, IL
- <Prague
braces for protests at IMF-World Bank meeting
- <Prague:
Activists promote fair trade -- a global economy
that lifts up all people rather than just the
wealthy nations.
- <When
globalization war hits home [MSNBC]
- <S26
in Ireland and the origins of the anti-capitalist
movement
- <S26:
Food bus denied entry into Czech Republic
- <Next
Protest Stop, Prague
- <Italy,
The italian Federation of the Anarchist Communists
(FdCA) on praga
- Czechs
Brace for World Banking Protests [LA Times]
- Czech
Republic on red alert on eve of IMF meeting
- INPEG's
Plan
- Food
bus denied entry into Czech Republic
- Next
Protest Stop, Prague
- Italy,
The italian Federation of the Anarchist Communists
(FdCA) on praga
- <Riots
threaten Prague autumn
- FBI
to Monitor European Activists
- HACKTIVISM
MAY OCCUR IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN PROTEST
EVENTS, JULY-SEPTEMBER 2000 [NIPC, U.S.
Gov.]
- CZECH
REPUBLIC: Monster trial against group of 10
anarchists/antifascists - still no end
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September 15, 2000
International Anarcho-Communist Solidarity
with the International Red & Black Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist
Bloc
"We believe
in internationalism and the globalization of our struggle against
all of capitalism, regardless of political borders, and we work
towards a genuine international unity which will one day lay the
basis for global social revolution."
-- Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc, Washington, DC, April 16,
2000
Revolutionary greetings from the Northeastern Federation
of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC) of North America and the Anarchist
Federation (AF) of Britain to all participants within the International
Red & Black Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc.
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, a global
movement is rising to resist exploitation by transnational capitalism.
From trade unionists to environmentalists, from religious groups
to non-governmental organizations, from indigenous peoples to the
urban homeless, the dispossessed echo the cry emanating from the
Lacandon Jungle: "Basta, Enough!"
As this refreshing breeze gathers strength, it
bends capitalism's rotting branches, but only an anarcho-communist
social revolution can rip up the roots. Reform is no match for capitalism's
resilience; capitalism's destruction will only be achieved by a
gale force storming the globe.
On September 26, the IMF and World Bank's scheming
misers will meet in Prague to make their backroom deals. Our comrades
around the world have seen through the flash bulbs and beyond the
shimmering television images that tell brazen lies with pretty pictures.
Many of these comrades will join Solidarita and other Czech revolutionaries
to expose, confront and disrupt this capitalist elite. We, the federated
anarcho-communists of Britain and the American Northeast, proclaim
solidarity with the International Red & Black Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist
Bloc, for social revolution and against global capitalism.
Signed;
Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (United
States)
Fédération des Communistes Anarchiste du Nord-est
(Canada)
Anarchist Federation (Britain), International Secretariat
"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not
the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might destroy its
own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new
world here, in our hearts. This world is growing this minute."
-- Buenaventura Durruti, 1936
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Solidarity Events
Online - Federation of
Random Action
Chicago
Reclaim
The Streets! Naperville, IL
Dublin,
Ireland - Various Dates
On September
26th
Dublin: Demonstration
at the IFSC in Dublin on at lunchtime - Meet opposite the Amnesty
Flame
Cork: *Main
protest - South Mall Financial area, Cork city 12 - 2 pm.
Derry: Protests
at various banks -details to follow
On September
30th
Dublin: Carnival
for Global Economic Justice
Ithaca, NY - September 26, 2000
CONTACT PERSON:
Nohemy Solórzano, ns15@cornell.edu, 607-269-0679
Demonstrations
to protest the effects of globalization in Tompkins County to occur
on 9/23 and 9/26
On September
23rd and 26th, the Ithaca Coalition for Global Justice (aka Ithaca
Sharks) will sponsor two demonstrations to protest corporate globalization
and its effects on working families and the environment worldwide
and particularly in Tompkins County. These events will be in solidarity
with trade unionists, community activists, faith-based activists
and students across the world raising awareness on the dangers of
structural adjustment programs promoted by the World Bank and the
IMF in developing nations.
Large-scale
protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle last November
and against the World Bank and IMF in Washington, DC in April brought
to light the suffering that these institutions have caused in developing
nations. On September 26, the World Bank and the IMF will meet in
Prague, Czech Republic.
On Saturday,
September, 23rd, there will be a demonstration on the Ithaca Commons
from 2-6 pm to educate and raise awareness about globalization.
Street theater, leafleting, and tabling will be among the events
scheduled for the day. The Ithaca Sharks will also promote the Living
Wage Campaign: an effort to raise salaries in our area to meet household
basic needs such as food, rent, and healthcare.
On Tuesday,
September 26th, the Ithaca Sharks will join thousands of worldwide
organizations protesting the World Bank and IMF meeting in Prague,
Czech Republic. There will be a rally at Ho Plaza, Cornell University,
at 12 pm to address a number of different issues that affect the
residents of Tompkins County. Speakers will focus on several topics,
including the campaign for a Living Wage; World Bank Bonds investments
in our community that support exploitative structural adjustment
programs; biotech research that feeds environmentally unsound practices;
and the commercialization of education.
The Ithaca
Coalition for Global Justice (aka Ithaca Sharks) is a diverse group
of workers, students and community members who are committed to
economic, social and environmental justice in Tompkins County, the
United States, and the world.
Johannesburg, South Africa
An Open Invitation to Participate in the S26 Week
of Action Against the World Bank and IMF Including:
Sat, S23: Anti-privatisation Summit
Sun, S24: World Bank, TNCs, Poor Governance and Corruption
Mon, S25: Soweto Roadshow
Tues, S26: Anti-World Bank and IMF Rally
On September 26, the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) will be starting their meeting in Prague. They
will not meet in peace. Hundreds of thousands of people will gather
in Prague and in countries across the world to protest their policies.
The September 26 Collective has organised a week
of action in Johannesburg, including educational and cultural activities,
culminating in a march against the World Bank and IMF on the opening
day of their meeting. The activities are being organised to highlight
the damage these institutions have caused for working people and
the poor in South Africa and throughout the world:
· The World Bank and the IMF made loans to prop up Apartheid
· They have been instrumental in GEAR, pushing wage restraint and
cuts in social spending
· World Bank policies have put land, water, housing and education
out of reach of the majority
· The World Bank is pushing privatisation of local government, including
Igoli 2002 and 2010
· World Bank and IMF structural adjustment has wrecked people's
lives across the world
· They refuse to cancel the debt, thereby keeping countries' economies
under their control
KEEP LEFT
The World Bank, IMF, WTO, poverty and AIDS
This public meeting will explore the links between
the World Bank and IMF structural adjustment policies, poverty and
HIV/AIDS, as well as that between the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
and the unaffordable price of HIV/AIDS drugs. It will be addressed
by LefaTlhame of the Treatment Action
Campaign
When: 1.00 pm, Wednesday 20 September
Where: ID Macrone Room, 2nd fl, Student Union Building, Wits University
Earthlife Africa
TNCs and Toxic Waste; the WTO and Food Insecurity
Chris Albertyn, Groundwork, will talk on the Transnational
Corporation (TNC) Thor Chemicals and mercury poisoning. He is passing
through Johannesburg on his way to Prague to take part in the discussions
on the ecological debt the North owes to the South. Richard Worthington
of Earthlife Africa will talk on the WTO, genetic engineering and
the big international seed monopolies depriving small farmers of
their livelihoods.
When: 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm, Thursday 21 September
Where: AIDC Offices, 3rd fl Cosatu House, 1 Leyds St, cnr Biccard
Street, Braamfontein
The Anti-Privatisation Forum
Anti-Privatisation Summit
The Anti-privatisation Forum is a coalition of
organisations opposed to privatisation, notably the Igoli 2002 and
Wits 2001 plans, and calls on residents, workers, women, youth and
students to come to the summit to organise against privatisation.
The Summit will be addressed by Roger Ronnie, SAMWU General Secretary.
When: 9.00 am till 4.00 pm, Saturday 23 September
Where: Senate House Basement 5 (SHB5), Wits University
The Campaign Against Neo-liberalism in South
Africa
World Bank, TNCs, Poor Governance and Corruption
The World Bank and IMF are trying to blame the
wreckage caused by their policies on the poor governance and corruption
of governments in the South. A closer examination takes us to the
home of poor governance and corruption: the international financial
institutions and transnational corporations. Stiaan van der Merwe,
Transparency South Africa, will open the debate on poor governance
and corruption; Greg Ruiters, politics lecturer at Wits University,
will talk to corruption in the big international monopoly water
companies and George Dor, CANSA, will give an update on World Bank
and international dam company corruption in the Lesotho Highlands
Water Project.
When: 9.00 am till 5.00 pm, Sunday 24 September
Where: 10th fl, Cosatu House, 1 Leyds St, cnr Biccard Street, Braamfontein
The Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee
Soweto Roadshow Against the World Bank and IMF
The s26 Collective will do a roadshow in Soweto
and stop off to meet with Soweto residents organised by the Soweto
Electricity Crisis Committee at Diepkloof, Orlando East and Pimville.
Discussions will focus on the impact of World Bank and IMF policies
on the daily lives of residents. When: from 9.00 am, Monday 25 September
The s26 Collective
People's Rally for Global Social Justice
There will be a programme of activities, including
music, drama and poetry, to be followed by a march.
Programme of activities: 11.00 - 1.00, Tuesday 26 September
Where: Library Gardens, Johannesburg
March: 1.15
Where: Library Gardens, past Anglo American, Standard Bank, Gauteng
Department of Finance, to Civic Centre
The S26 collective is composed of people active in SASCO (National,
provincial and Wits), Jubilee 2000 (national and provincial), SADTU,
NEHAWU, Earthlife Africa, Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe),
SACP (National and Jhb Central), SAGDA, Swaziland Solidarity Network,
Campaign Against Neo-liberalism in SA, Treatment Action Campaign,
Keep Left Network, SACHIB, Human Rights Committee, Democratic Socialist
Movement and Wosa Soweto.
Contact: George Dor, 3rd fl, Cosatu House, 1 Leyds
St, cnr Biccard Street, Braamfontein, tel (011) 339-4121, fax (011)
339 4123, cansa@sn.apc.org or:
Claire Ceruti, tel (011) 487 2812, cell 082 332
9874, keepleft@ananzi.co.za
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Campaign Against Neo-liberalism in South Africa (CANSA)
Can be contacted at the Johannesburg Office of the
Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC)
3rd fl Cosatu House, cnr Leyds and Biccard Streets,
Braamfontein, South Africa
Postal address:
60 Isipingo Street, Bellevue East 2198, South Africa
Tel during office hours:
27 11 339 4121
Fax:
27 11 339 4123
Tel after office hours:
27 11 648 7000
Email:
cansa@sn.apc.org
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Los Angeles, CA - September 26, 2000
Pershing Square
- 5th & Hill - Los Angeles []
Tuesday, September
26, 2000
Assemble at
2:00 p.m.
March at 4:00
p.m.
End at 7:00
p.m.
Moscow
From Olga: Moscow government doesn't want
any action on Sept.26. Our action ("street consert for support poor
people" - so was in paper) was forbitten by locall authorities.
We gave a peacefull discription for action and really we must not
ask permission, only give information what will happen. It's not
common practice to forbid actions, because they have to have some
reasone for it and make official explanaision. We don't like to
ask for permision of course but we were going to use expansive sound
system and there are not enough people for mass protests. It's already
the second time - we didn't manage to get this kind of permision
for First May'2000 festival in Moscow. I hope we'll find smth to
do.
New York City
NEW YORK ACTIVISTS TO
SUPPORT “S26” GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION VS. IMF, WORLD BANK; CAMPAIGN
AGAINST CITIGROUP TO KICK OFF
Activists will be joining forces for a mass rally
in New York City on Tues., Sept. 26 to demonstrate U.S. support
for the Global Day of Action in Prague, Czech Republic, against
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. “S26” will also
mark the kick-off of a new campaign against Citigroup, the banking
giant that has practiced predatory lending overseas and disproportionately
denied loans to African-American applicants in the U.S.
New Yorkers will rally at the IMF offices, 44th
Street and Second Avenue, at 4 p.m. on Tues., Sept. 26. This unpermitted
mass protest will be one of hundreds to be held in major cities
all over the world, focusing unprecedented attention on the disastrous
effects of IMF and World Bank policies. Activists will show their
solidarity with the tens of thousands of demonstrators gathering
in Prague to demonstrate and engage in nonviolent civil disobedience
against the IMF and World Bank meetings on that day.
The New York event, coordinated by the New York
City Direct Action Network, will include street theater, leafleting,
live video/audio hook-up to Prague, and informative talks on the
policies of the IMF, World Bank and Citigroup. These institutions
have devastated the environment and destroyed communities around
the world and driven poor Americans deeper into poverty, notes Vicki
Larson, a member of NYC-DAN's S26 Working Group. At the same time,
she notes, “people are awakening to the possibility and necessity
of global solidarity against the ravaging effects of unbridled corporate
power. At home as abroad, a burgeoning movement is giving new meaning
to the slogan, ‘Think globally, act locally.'”
Organizations that have endorsed the S26 Global
Day of Action against the IMF and World Bank include: AFL-CIO, Anarchist
Action of Rochester, Boston Global Action Network, Campaign for
Labor Rights, Coalition Against Global Exploitation, Communications
Workers of America, 50 Years is Enough Coalition, Global Exchange,
Infoshop.org, Insaaf (Justice) International (India), International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, Jobs with Justice, Mexico Solidarity Network,
Milwaukee Pledge of Resistance, Natural Resources and Development
Institute (Indonesia), New England Global Action Network, New York
City AIDS Housing Network, Nicaragua-US Friendship Office, and Rainforest
Action Network (sponsor of the global campaign against Citigroup).
For more information about the Global Day of Action
in New York, contact the New York City Direct Action Network at
(212) 358-3966, or by email at nyc-dan@riseup.net.
For the latest information about S26 events in Prague and around
the world see http://x21.org/s26;
for the case against the IMF, World Bank and Citigroup visit www.50years.org
(IMF, World Bank) and “Campaigns” under www.ran.org
(Citigroup).
Washington, DC - Various Dates
Monday 18th
6pm meet and phone bank, JWJ
Tuesday 19th
World Bank protest 4pm.
Thursday 21st
7pm movie Institute for Policy Studies
Friday 22nd
8pm fundraiser for Prague 1701 Kenyon NW.
Saturday 23rd.
Action Training. Must contact organizers to participate (if you
haven't already): 410-462-1310. Also: banner making, puppet making,
etc.
Monday 25th
4pm protest plight of DC public school system, failure to negotiate
with unions, World Bank imposition of user fees on education. 825
North Capitol. SEE YOU THERE.
Tuesday 26th
7:30 AM Rally with parking garage workers, support their right to
organize. 19th and L. SEE YOU THERE.
Wellington, Aotearoa
- September 26
In Wellington
we are planning a day of action, protest, and party centered around
Cuba and Manners Mall. While there are no direct local targets for
protest against the WTO and IMF, we will be focussing on banks as
embodying the same basic principles of profit, foreign control,
and disregard for local communities as the World Bank and IMG conglomerates.
This will begin
with Food Not Bombs outside McDonalds in Manners Mall, followed
by music, breakdancing, bands, displays, balloons, chalk painting,
roving pickets targeting banks etc. between 12 pm and 3 pm in the
Cuba Mall / Manners Mall area.
If you don't see your city listed here, check
out the Contact
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What's Next?
S26 TALLY
- Prague: 10,000+
- Baltimore: 30
- Berkeley: 450
- Bombay:
- Boston: 100+
- Buffalo:
- Chicago: 200
- Cork, Ireland: 60
- Cyberspace:
- Bangladesh:
- Belo Horizonte, Brasil: 300
- Delhi:
- Denver: 350
- Frankfurt/Main: 30
- Gainesville, FL: 50
- Geneva: 50
- Hadley, MA: 400
- Hartford, CT: 200
- Kiev: 700
- Lisbon: 200
- Louisville, KY: 50
- Melbourne: 2000
- Montreal: 150
- Moscow: 40
- New Brunswick, NJ: 30
- New York City: 200
- Portland, OR: 400
- Providence, RI: 200
- San Francisco: 300
- Sao Paulo: 1500
- Seattle:
- Stavanger, Norway: 250
- Stockholm: 200
- Sydney:
- Tel Aviv: 1000
- Toronto: 200
- Tucson, AZ: 100
- Utrecht, Netherlands: 500
- Washington, DC: 400
- Wellington, New Zealand: 150
- West Palm Beach, FL: 50
- Wroclaw, Poland: 30
- Yale, CT: 50
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