[mgj-discuss] New CAFTA flier: Fwd, print, post...COME!

[Herb Ettel]

Download at:
http://www.ecohousing.net/CAFTA-flier.doc or
http://www.ecohousing.net/CAFTA-flier.pdf

Here's the concise text:
PLEASE COPY, POST, FAX, EMAIL, DISTRIBUTE
Afta NAFTA, Nasty CAFTA*!
A Week of Actions: December 7-12, Washington DC

Sun. Dec. 7 Rally & March, 12-2pm
   Malcolm-X Park, 16th & Euclid NW.
   Speakers, puppets, banners, music.
Tues. Dec. 9, 9am Protest CAFTA Talks
   Mayflower Hotel, Connecticut & L NW
   (Bring noisemakers and paper airplanes!)
M.-F. Picket, lunchtime 12-1pm
   Mayflower Hotel, Connecticut & L NW

Stop the *Central America ‘Free Trade’ Agreement
Protect ‘FAIR Trade’, Worker Rights, Democracy & the Environment!
The most urgent battle against unfair trade is CAFTA! Now that the 
successful protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) are 
over in Miami, we must now mobilize to stop the Central America Free Trade 
Agreement (CAFTA)—the bridge between NAFTA and the FTAA—and the Bush 
administration's cynical use of so-called "free trade agreements" to expand 
a system of corporate rule.

Stop this cynical, disastrous ‘Race to the Bottom’: NAFTA has already 
caused a net loss of  800,000 jobs in the U.S. alone, and reduced workers’ 
rights and safety, democratic rights, environmental protection and public 
health in all three countries. CAFTA and FTAA would expand this disaster to 
34 countries!

For the past year, the Bush administration has been quickly and quietly 
twisting the arms of 5 vulnerable nations of Central America in order to 
regain momentum toward the hemisphere-wide FTAA. CAFTA is set to be 
completed during the final round of negotiations in Washington, D.C. 
December 7-12, 2003.

Defeating CAFTA will set back the already reeling FTAA process, perhaps for 
good. People throughout Central America and the U.S. have been organizing. 
Thousands have marched in Managua, San Salvador, and San Jose. Negotiations 
have been picketed in Cincinnati, Houston and New Orleans.
The coalition against CAFTA calls for local actions everywhere to express 
opposition to this disaster.

Sponsors:  Mobilization for Global Justice, Share Fndn., Quixote Center, 
and other labor and human rights organizations. 
Websites:  www.stopcafta.org ; www.globalizethis.org

Info: 202-291-2258.  ALSO: April 21-25 World Bank/IMF 60th Anniversary 
Meetings in DC.
People Before Profit!  Fair Trade, Not “Free” Trade!