Criminalization of Global Dissent, October 5-6, Ottawa

International Teach-in Oct 5, 2001- The Militarization and Criminalization of Global Dissent

Announcement

The Corporate-Security State: An international teach-in on the use of global police and militaries to protect corporate globalization against people and democratic dissent.

October 5-6, 2001

Ottawa Ontario

End the Arms Race is spearheading an international coalition of unions and peace and anti-corporate globalization groups who are organizing an international teach-in on the militarization and criminalization of dissent. The teach-in will be held October 5/6 in Ottawa Canada during the meetings of the NATO-Parliamentary Assembly.

As the anti-corporate globalization movement grows our governments are acting more and more as collaborators protecting global corporate interests. The tools of repression-tear gas, rubber bullets, blacklists and even live ammunition-are being used against people and democratic dissent in places like Seattle, Washington, Prague and Quebec. Economic warfare is creating a whole new class of 'the global unneeded". The war on drugs is about criminalizing poverty. And, the global war system while pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the pockets of global military producers protects western capital around the world. The consequence is a growing gap between rich and poor, environmental degradation, growing violence and war, and the loss of democracy.



Workshop themes

* The Hidden Fist of the Free Market

* Economic Warfare

* The Globalization of the Arms Industry: The Weapons Corporations

* Private Wars: Defending Corporate Interests

* Policing the Movement and our Communities

* The World Police (NATO) and the Global War System

* Masters of Space to be Masters of the Economy

* The Corporate-Security State

* Strategy for an historic era: the Global Democracy Movement

(protecting human and social rights, and the environment;

creating economics for people; and a time to end war.)

For more information contact Peter Coombes

604.687.3223 fax 687.3277 pcoombes@peacewire.org,

The organizing group includes representatives from End the Arms Race, The Council of Canadians, Global Resource Action Center on the Environment, Veterans Against Nuclear War, International Forum on Globalization, Coalition Opposed to the Arms Trade, Ottawa and District Labour Council, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canadian Labour Congress, National Union of Public and Government Employees, Canadian Auto Workers, Ottawa-PIRG, CEP, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Canadian Voice of Women and Science for Peace.

Peter Coombes

National Organizer

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