{"article":{"id":5946,"heading":"Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks on Global Corporatization","author":"Watchdog","created":"2001-04-19 14:09:43","modified":"2013-11-10 23:37:14","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:37:14","article":"

JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER

'MUMIA GLOBAL RESISTANCE BRIGADES'

@ anti-FTAA demonstrations around the country

*Look for our flags, banners and contingents at anti-FTAA

demonstrations in Quebec City, Buffalo, San Diego\/Tijuana and at

solidarity actions around the country!*

GO TO www.mumia2000.org to see our \"Free Mumia\" flags and to get

more information.

Below is a MESSAGE FROM MUMIA ABU-JAMAL to the anti-globalization

movement. We will be distributing it widely at these demonstrations.

\"I think that we must pay strict attention to the Seattle experience. On

the front lines of the popular rebellion against the WTO, this anti-

globalist fervor showed the common interests of students, of anti-

imperialists, of human rights activists, and labor. What the movement

demonstrated is the power of mass mobilization—and the ability of the

people to derail something that was previously seen and feared as

inevitable: the globalist domination of Western capitol.

\"What mass humanist movements teach us all is that nothing is

inevitable. That the power of the people can indeed build obstacles to

the selfish interests of the rich. And that globalism can and indeed must

be opposed by forms of globalist resistance. That nationalities are

usually false illusions that what we have in common are humanity,

crosses national borders.

\"Globalism as a form of imperial economic domination knows no

borders. When you look at vast multi-national corporations, like Mobil

or Exxon or General Motors, these aren’t American corporations

anymore. They are global entities that may have been formed in the

U.S. or created or even born, but may have outgrown the cradle and

operate in a plethora of languages, using many various currencies, on

most continents.

\"They fund government repression and environmental degradation and

devastation in Nigeria, industrial pollution in Russia and political

corruption in Peru. They are masters of governments, not citizens. Let

us learn from them and build global networks of resistance—global

resistance units—that speak in all tongues, and builds on all fronts.

\"For the future of the globe will belong to the people, or will be a

lifeless poisoned sponge for the privileged few. There is no other

alternative. Let us learn how to grow, how to expand, and then how to

win.\"

On a move, Long Live John Africa

Your brother, Mumia

International Action Center

39 West 14th Street, Room 206

New York, NY 10011

email: iacenter@iacenter.org<\/a>

web: http:\/\/www.iacenter.org<\/a>

CHECK OUT SITE

http:\/\/www.mumia2000.org<\/a>

phone: 212 633-6646

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