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Please also copy mesages regarding the tour visiting your community to:
Marco Morency <emm2364@umoncton.ca> and Aaron Koleszar <aaronk@isn.net>
thanks
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From: "la C.L.A.C." <clac@tao.ca>
Hi there and Happy New Year -- This e-mail is being sent to various people
who've made contact with the CLAC (Anti-Capitalist Convergence) in
hxrT_&yMontreal from the Maritimes. Many of you have e-mailed us in the
past few
weeks and months, and our apologies for not having responded sooner, but
we've been swamped with literally hundreds of requests. After this e-mail,
you will get three more:
1) An update from the CLAC with basic info.
2) A call-out for the CLAC/CASA Consulta in Quebec City on January 27-28.
3) A call-out for the ftaa-l list.
If these messages don't answer your basic questions, don't hesitate to get
back in touch at clac@tao.ca.
Many of you have also expressed interest in hosting activists from Quebec
City and Montreal to participate in local awareness-raising efforts about
the FTAA, the Summit of the Americas and organizing in Quebec. Both the
CLAC and CASA (based in Quebec City) will be able to undertake a Maritime
Zcaravan tour between January 29 to February 9. This would be a two-week
period just after the Consulta in Quebec City. There are tentative plans
for the first couple of days taking place in the Gaspesie region of Quebec
before heading into New Brunswick.
Members of the CLAC and CASA would participate, with perhaps other
activists from the Maritime region. Crucially, this tour is only
desirable insofar as it fits in with your own local awareness-raising and
action efforts against the FTAA and capitalist globalization. We do not
want to come to your area as "experts"; rather, we'd like to work in
collaboration with local activists, in a spirit of solidarity.
All that being said, tour participants from the CLAC and CASA can offer
workshops and presentations, in English and French, on various topics:
NAFTA, FTAA and the Summit of the Americas; capitalist globalization;
organizing from Seattle to Quebec; "on-the-ground" reports about what's
happening in Quebec City; globalization and its effects on women;
building and re-inforcing anti-capitalist networks of resistance; and much
more.
CLAC previously organized a two-week tour of Ontario this past October.
Five members of the CLAC presented workshops, participated on panels, and
met hundreds of activists all over the province, from Windsor to Toronto,
Sudbury to Ottawa. Generally, in most cities or towns, we would present
workshops or do a panel during the day at a local university or college,
followed by a larger community event in the evening. Throughout the day,
we'd also pass on info informally with our meetings with local activists,
as well as do community media interviews if necessary.
Logistically, CLAC and CASA members would rent a car and undertake the
tour for two weeks, starting from Quebec City. From your end, we'd need
about $200-300 per city (to pay for gas, rental and food expenses). As for
lodgings, we're not fussy: just a floor and access to a shower will do.
During the Ontario tour, many community groups were able to secure some
funding from student groups at a university, which enabled the visit to
the area, and provided a chance for an evening presentation to the local
community.
So, if you're interested in activists from CLAC and CASA visiting your
area, please get in touch ASAP. Here's how the schedule is looking
(assuming that we'll be spending 1-3 days in the Gaspesie). We will start
in NB, but from there the schedule is flexible. As of now, there are no
plans to visit Newfoundland, as there are no contacts there.
January 29: Gaspesie (or travel day)
January 30: Gaspesie/NB
January 31: Gaspesie/NB (Fredericton?)
February 1: NB (Saint John?)
February 2: NB (Moncton?)
February 3/4: weekend -- NB/NS/PEI (Sackville? Charlottetown?)
February 5: NB/NS/PEI (Halifax?)
February 6: NS/PEI
February 7: NS/PEI (Wolfville?)
February 8: NS/PEI/NF
February 9: NS/PEI/NF
Look forward the hearing from you, and perhaps seeing you very soon too.
Stay in touch.
-- The CLAC External Liaison Working Group
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La Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes (CLAC)
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence
La Convergencia de las luchas anti-capitalistas
A Convergencia das lutas anti-capitalistas
clac@tao.ca -- 514-409-2049
http://www.quebec2001.net
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Aaron Koleszar <aaronk@isn.net>
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FTAA/Quebec Related Websites
OQP (Occupation Quebec Printemps [Spring] )
http://www.oqp2001.org (English, French and Spanish)
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC)
http://www.quebec2001.org (English, French and Spanish, Italian, Portugese)
http://quebec.indymedia.org (English, French and Spanish)
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The 2000 election has further solidified the grasp of corporate capitalism
on the governance of Canada. In what amounts to a virtual dictatorship, the
arrogant right wing (Neo)Liberals are poised to continue the wholesale
sell-off of Canada to mostly American corporations, as well as tax cuts for
the rich, at the expense of the environment, the poor, aboriginals, and
other minorities. The "official" opposition - the newly garbed Reform party
- will not oppose the NeoLiberal cuts and tax-breaks. They will only force
the (Neo)Liberals further to the right.
The lopsided election results demonstrate the futility of trying to change
our society through traditional electoral politics while we're living in a
capitalist economic system where the public is overwhelmingly influenced by
mainstream corporate media, and the government is overwhelmingly controlled
by transnational corporations.
So it is up to us to build the REAL opposition. Opposition in our
communities, opposition in the streets. We must build the movement that
will place power in the hands of the people instead of the elites. There
are many more people being exploited than doing the exploiting. We are very
powerful - all we need to do is realize it and get organized!
One important step will be the moblization against the FTAA between now and
April.
See you in Quebec!
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FOR THE REAL NEWS ON PROTESTS AND DIRECT ACTION AGAINST THE WTO IN SEATTLE,
THE IMF/WORLD BANK IN WASHINGTON & PRAGUE, G-20 IN MONTREAL, THE FTAA IN
QUEBEC, AND OTHER PAST AND FUTURE ACTIONS, VISIT:
http://www.indymedia.org - The Independenat Media Center (IMC)
THEN FOLLOW THE LINKS TO LOCAL IMCS
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