Toronto: A radical look at the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas)

6pm, Thursday, Jan.25th, 2001
At the Lillian H. Smith Public Library,
239 College (east of Spadina)
Cost: FREE!!

A night of radical anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian speakers and videos from Ontario, Quebec and the U.S.

Childcare provided with prior notice. Please call 416.631.8835

Anti-Racist Action presents:

A radical look at the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas)

6pm, Thursday, Jan.25th, 2001
At the Lillian H. Smith Public Library,
239 College (east of Spadina)
Toronto, Ontario
Cost: FREE!!

From April 20-22, 2001 Quebec City will be hosting the Summit of the Americas where the rulers of the 34 countries of North and South America (except Cuba) will be gathering for cocktails, photo ops, and backroom deals designed to extend the rich’s robbery of the indigenous, poor and working people of the Americas through the FTAA.

Thousands of people from all over North and South America will be converging in Quebec City to oppose and disrupt the Summit as well as present a sane worldview where the world’s wealth is used to provide for the world’s people who produce it.

There are many organizing efforts against the FTAA underway. We represent (part of) the tendencies that see the FTAA as a symptom of a failed system of economic organization, namely capitalism. We also represent a desire to move from "days of action" to sustained community-based resistance and finally to break out of failed modes of symbolic protest to serious, uncompromising opposition.

Speakers:

Helene Vallieres, Summit of the Americas Welcoming Committee, CASA (Quebec City)

Jaggi Singh, The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) and Colours of Resistance (Montreal)

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Former Black Panther and Political Prisoner, Founder of the Black Autonomy Network Of Community Organizers and author of "Anarchism and Black Revolution" (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Fernando, Food for Chiapas

Sue Collis, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)

Pauline Hwang, Colours of Resistance (Montreal)

Steve Swart, Active Transformation (Lansing, Michigan)

And Anti-Racist Action Toronto

Videos: Canadian Premiere of "Revolting in Prague" (undercurrents) As well as, Fighting to win! OCAP on June 15th (TVAC) and Resist FTAA! (TVAC),

Childcare provided with prior notice. Please call 416.631.8835

For more information on radical organizing against the FTAA please contact:

Anti-Racist Action Toronto
P.O. Box 291, Station B.
Toronto ON M5T 2T2
a...@web.net
416.631.8835
http://www.web.net/~ara

Colours of Resistance
http://www.tao.ca/~colours
colo...@tao.ca

The Anti-Capitalist Convergence, Montreal (CLAC)
e-mail: c...@tao.ca
web: http://www.quebec2001.net
tel: +1 514 526-8946
post: 2035, St-Laurent Boulevard, 2nd floor
Montreal, Quebec H2X 2T3 CANADA

Summit of The Americas Welcoming Committee (CASA)
email: la_c...@hotmail.com