A workshop looking beyond critiques of globalization to the resistance movements -- historical and contemporary -- to capitalism, imperialism and patriarchy, as well as realistic and radical alternatives to exploitive ideologies and practices. Members of the Independent Research Collective have previously presented workshops on "Globalization: Background and Context", "The Impacts of Capitalist Globalization", "NAFTA, FTAA and the Summit of the Americas" and "Imperialism in the Americas".

RESISTANCE AND ALTERNATIVES
TO CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION
A workshop and discussion
Presented by members of
the Independent Research Collective
(Montreal)

A workshop looking beyond critiques of globalization to the resistance movements -- historical and contemporary -- to capitalism, imperialism and patriarchy, as well as realistic and radical alternatives to exploitive ideologies and practices. Members of the Independent Research Collective have previously presented workshops on "Globalization: Background and Context", "The Impacts of Capitalist Globalization", "NAFTA, FTAA and the Summit of the Americas" and "Imperialism in the Americas".

The "Resistance and Alternatives" workshop will be offered four times in December, twice each in French and English. For more info, contact .

-- Monday, December 11, 7pm (en francais)
L'X - 182, Ste-Catherine Est

-- Tuesday, December 12, 5:30pm (in english)
McGill University
in conjunction with FTAA-Alert at McGill
e-mail c...@tao.ca to confirm location

-- Wednesday, December 13, 4pm (en francais)
L'X - 182, Ste-Catherine Est
to be followed by a general assembly of the CLAC (La Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes) at 6pm

-- Thursday, December 14, 7pm (in english)
Concordia University
e-mail c...@tao.ca to confirm location
or visit 2130 Mackay before the talk

About the Independent Research Collective:

The Independent Research Collective (IRC, or le Collectif de recherche autonome et critique (CRAC)) is a Montreal-area affinity group of activists, writers, independent journalists and researchers. In anticipation of the upcoming Summit of the Americas meeting in Quebec City (April 2001), we have come together to provide well-researched, well-written analyses of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), as well as the larger context of capitalist globalization. The IRC undertakes its work with a critical spirit, seeking to articulate an accessible counter-discourse to free market fundamentalism.

Some of our areas of research include: the FTAA and NAFTA, the WTO, IMF and World Bank, corporations, neo-liberalism, resistance and solidarity movements, organizing tactics and strategies, impacts on women, the environment, indigenous resistance, human rights, labour, education, culture, patriarchy, imperialism in the Americas, as well as an emphasis on alternative visions to capitalist-style globalization.

The IRC aims to share our research widely and publicly, in English, French and Spanish, through pamphlets, articles, op-eds, factsheets, workshops, presentations, debates and conferences, as well as by intervening in both the independent and corporate-mainstream media. We stress popular education, skill-sharing and mutual aid, as well as combining research and analysis with grassroots activism and action. In order to maintain our independence, the IRC rejects all government and corporate funding, and refuses any funding that compromises our principles.

The IRC is an affinity group of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence/La Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes (CLAC) in Montreal (c...@tao.ca).

Info: 514-526-8946 or c...@tao.ca