*********Mass Rally and MARCH on Central American Free Trade talks********
What:Join the Houston Mobilization to Stop CAFTA
When:Monday, October 20th Rally begins at 4 pm, March Begins at 5 pm
Where: Rally at Grady Park (1700 Yorktown), March to the Westin Galleria (5060 Alabama)
Masses of people are rising up against the neo-liberal polices of the World Trade Organization, The Free Trade Area of Americas and goverments supporting Central American Free Trade. In Cancun, Managua and all over Latin America thousands are speaking truth to power and challenging corporate globalization. Now it is time to tell the power-brokers meeting in George W. Bush's hometown that our world is not for sale and we will use whatever non-violent and intellectual means available to challenge the destructive neo-liberal policies that undermine worker's rights and well-being, the environment, health and safety standards and the fabric of our democracy.
Now it is time to tell the power-brokers meeting in George W. Bush's hometown that our world is not for sale and we will use whatever
non-violent and intellectual means available to challenge the destructive neo-liberal policies that undermine worker's rights and well-being, the environment, health and safety standards and the fabric of our democracy.
The rally will begin at 4 pm in Grady Park, located at 1700 Yorktown, and march at 5 pm to the Westin Oaks and Westin Galleria hotels to confront the CAFTA meetings. All sponsors and endorsements for the Houston Mobilization to Stop CAFTA are welcome and encouraged. The Houston Mobilization to Stop CAFTA is also calling for continued vigilance, protest and education against CAFTA the rest of the week of the talks and is helping organize, coordinate and facilitate these events.
Sponsors: The Texas Fair Trade Coalition;Houston Young Democrats; Houston Campus Greens; Not In Our Name-Houston; The Houston Global Awareness Collective; SACRED; In Solidarity With Animals; School of The Americas Watch;Houston ANSWER;The Art Car Museum and The Station;
Endorsers:United People Resisting Oppression and Racism(UPROAR); TxPIRG;Global Exchange;Mexico Solidarity Network; The Quixote Center;Witness for Peace Southeast;Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador(CISPES);Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA);Noam Chomsky,Professor MIT;Hepburn J. Ingham III, KPFT; Gerald Horne, UH Dept of History; Phil Howard, UH Dept. of History;Guadalupe San Miguel,UH History Dept of History;Luis Alvarez,UH History Dept of History;Global Democracy Forum,University of Houston; Freer Speech Coalition, University of Houston;
The Houston Mobilization to Stop CAFTA
stopcafta (at) yahoo.com;hgac (at) riseup.net
Houston 832-725-6220; Austin 512-472-1915
http://www.stopcafta.org