November 16-18, the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) will be having their annual CEO conference in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio at the Omni Netherlands Hotel. European Union Parliament, U.S. congress, and more than 200 American and European CEOs and business leaders will meet to talk about issues that impact transatlantic trade and develop
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:23:50 EDT
From: Cincinnati Direct Action Collective cdac3@hotmail.com
Cincinnati Direct Action Collective
mailto:cdac3@hotmail.com
Subject: N16 - Protest the TABD - Cincinnati
Dear Fellow Activist/Organization:
Hi! I'm writing to you from Cincinnati, site of the
upcoming Protests in
Cincinnati, Ohio against the Trans Atlantic Business
Dialogue. Cincinnati
was picked because it is in the middle of the midwest, a
conservative city,
and is also a corporate town. Cincinnati houses the world
headquarters for
Proctor & Gamble and Chiquita Banana, which are all very
close to where the
TABD summit will be held. There is also a GAP and Starbucks
in the same
building as the Omni Netherlands.
There are several themes with which to protest corporate
globalization
while in Cincinnati. Gap (sweatshops/old growth forest
issues); Starbucks
(a living wage for coffee growers around the world!);
Chiquita (worker's
rights); Proctor and Gamble (Animal Rights). But, these
aren't the only
themes. US Corporate Globalization affects so many issues:
economic
justice, indigenous rights (U'wa/Zapatistas -
NAFTA/FTAA/more), as a matter
of fact, so many issues we individually work on are related
to
globalization.
Please check http://www.n16.org/
for more information on CDAC's plans in November (includes
housing,
medical, carpool message board, TABD info, Art and Rev. and
more). We hope
you can make it to Cincinnati for N16. If your
organization would like to
endorse CDAC's (Cincinnati Direct Action Collective - N16)
Call to Action
please let us know by emailing your endorsement to
cdac3@hotmail.com
mailto:cdac3@hotmail.com .
Please help us advertise N16 by forwarding this to your
activist friends,
list servs, or by posting a link or the Call to Action
(below) on your
website. If you would like to join the list serv send a
blank message to
CincinnatiDA-subscribe@egroups.com. We hope to see you in
November! Please feel free to email CDAC at
cdac3@hotmail.com.
CDAC
DIRECT ACTION PROTEST AGAINST THE T.A.B.D. NOVEMBER 16 - 18
DOWNTOWN
CINCINNATI OHIO OMNI NETHERLANDS HOTEL - 5th and Race St.
November 16-18, the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD)
will be having
their annual CEO conference in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio at
the Omni
Netherlands Hotel. European Union Parliament, U.S.
congress, and more than
200 American and European CEOs and business leaders will
meet to talk about
issues that impact transatlantic trade and develop
recommendations on how
to best boost global trade and investment. The T.A.B.D.
makes
recommendations that will set
the tone for World Trade Organization policy. Over 50% of
T.A.B.D.
recommendations have been adopted for the WTO. One such
corporation in
attendance at the conference, BASF, who's plant in
Cincinnati blew up in
the early 1990's killing two workers, injuring many more
and also caused
millions of dollars in damage will help with these
negotiations! The TABD
claims to "offer an effective framework for enhanced
Cooperation between
the transatlantic business community and the governments of
the EU and US.
An informal process whereby European and American companies
and business
associations develop
joint EU-US trade policy recommendations, working together
with the
European Commission and U.S. administration." It's plain to
see that the
Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue means more money and
control in the
pockets of top CEO and
government officials so just like the WTO in Seattle and
the IMF/World Bank
in Washington DC demonstrations it is time to voice our
opposition. Join together and publicize the disastrous
effects of corporate
globalization to people both outside and inside the United
States. We need
to converse to world economic and business leaders that we
will not calmly
tolerate labor and agricultural annihilation before our
eyes. What is left
before us, our only hope for a just and equal society, YOU!
Start talking
to within communities about organizing affinity groups to
come and converge
in Cincinnati Ohio November 15,
16, 17, 18 to make aware the growing nature of these
undemocratic
institutions. Join in workshops and educational
demonstrations of real
democracy where we organize from the bottom up. Our
convergence upon
Cincinnati will be a symbol that we want to totally
eradicate and abolish
the injustice of global economic control by a few. No
longer shall human
life, animals and the environment be substituted for
personal gain! Come be
apart of mass demonstrations, direct action and civil
disobedience to show
the TABD that we will not tolerate their current policies
of global
takeover by institutions that cater profit before people.
Without a peoples
response to this matter we waive our right to practice the
democratic
process and put it into the T.A.B.D's hands. LETS!
ORGANIZE! NOW!
To subscribe to the Cincinnati Direct Action email list For
current and up
to date info please email:
CincinnatiDA-subscribe@egroups.com
mailto:CincinnatiDA-subscribe@egroups.com
If you would like to get involved please contact :
cdac3@hotmail.com
mailto:cdac3@hotmail.com
For more on the transatlantic business dialogue see
http://www.tabd.org
Website for direct action protest with updates, housing,
and current
information on N16 protests and teach-ins at
http://www.n16.org
For other actions being organized around the TABD (marches,
rallies,
teach-ins, trainings you can also visit http://www.che-
2000.org.
SEE YOU IN CINCINNATI!!!!
Original: Cincy Nov 16 Protest (TABD) TransAtlanticBus.Dialog