{"article":{"id":10858,"heading":"DOWNTOWN L.A. SEPT 29 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION","author":"MARCUS","created":"2001-09-27 19:39:44","modified":"2005-08-15 00:39:31","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:39:31","article":"<p>The Sep 29 Mobilization \r\n BE A PART OF HISTORY! \r\n\r\nMarch Begins 11am at Olympic and Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles, and ending at Temple (between Los Angeles and Alameda)\r\n\r\nParking and Transportation Info \r\n\r\n\r\nTHE SEPTEMBER 29th LOS ANGELES JUSTICE MOBILIZATION \r\n--------A \"Call\" to the movement to come together and mobilize!------------- \r\n-------International Day of Action!------- \r\n+++Justice for our Hemisphere..Justice for our Communities+++\r\n  \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNEXT MEETING OF THE MOBILIZATION COALITION \r\nMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 7:00 p.m. \r\n\r\nat CARECEN \r\nCARECEN is the Central American Resource Center, 7th 2845 West 7th Street (near Hoover &amp; 7th)  \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nIn the Wake of attacks in New York and Washington, DC. We want to express the sympathy to those who died.\r\n\r\nThere's no question that these events will have an impact on LA S29 Mobilization and LA\/Irvine Taco Bell Actions, we will discuess the details at Monday night S29 meeting.\r\n\r\nAlso, we should very careful not to jump into the conclusion who behind these brutal attacks, and vow to \"revenge.\" Currently, there's a very high anti-Arab hysteria across the country, many Muslim community leaders had received countless death threats since September 11. \r\n\r\nYes, we need to condemn the violence against innocent civilian, but we also need to against any US war, bombings against anyone in the name of the \"revenge\"!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n    Join us to develop the political projection of the mobilization!   \r\n\r\nParticipate in the Work Groups: scenario, program, outreach, security, media\/press, art\/puppets, logistics, permits &amp; more.\r\n\r\nBegin the process of building a diverse, multi-racial, multi-ethnic,strong voice to confront corporate globalization and intervention throughout the hemisphere...and defend immigrants and workers both here at home &amp; throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe CALL\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nJUSTICE FOR LATIN AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, THE AMERICAS!  JUSTICE FOR WORKERS \r\nAND IMMIGRANTS IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND THROUGHOUT THE HEMISPHERE! NO TO \r\nMILITARY, ECONOMIC &amp; ELECTORAL INTERVENTIONS IN OUR HEMISPHERE! \r\n\r\n\r\n* Stop the impoverishment of Latin America &amp; the Caribbean! \r\n     NO TO THE FTAA (Free Trade Areas for the Americas)! \r\n* U.S. Out of Latin America! \r\n     NO TO PLAN COLOMBIA! \r\n* Stop the attacks, here at home and throughout the hemisphere, on People of \r\nColor, Women, Immigrants, Workers, the Poor and Youth,gays and lesbians, bi-sexuals and transgenders ! \r\n* FULL LEGALIZATION FULL RIGHTS FOR IMMIGRANTS! \r\n  \r\n============================================================================\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n     The progressive movement is called to reflect its solidarity with the people of Latin America and the Caribbean and the workers and the poor here at home and throughout the hemisphere by becoming part of the September 29 Justice Coalition to halt the insidious domination of the Americas  by corporate transnationals and the U.S. military.  Join tens of thousands of women, indigenous people, immigrants, youth and people of color taking part in an international day of action against the FTAA and Plan Colombia. Protests in Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Salvador and other cities will give this a truly international impact. \r\n\r\n     The gigantic Latina\/o population of Los Angeles, marching with African-Americans, Native Americans, the Asian community and contingents from many other communities of the Southland, will send a strong message to Washington, D.C. and around the world. \r\n\r\n     Our coalition will begin immediately to build strong contingents from labor, the gay &amp; lesbian bi-sexuals &amp; transgenders community, faith-based activists, environmentalists, the solidarity movement, the youth\/student movements, the immigrant community include and others. \r\n\r\nWhy a march and rally in September? \r\n\r\n***Corporations and the elites in the United States and Latin America want to expand their pro-corporate, anti-worker economic agenda by passing the FTAA (Free Trade Areas for the Americas) which spreads NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) from the arctic circle to the tip of South America. NAFTA increased poverty enormously...we don't want the FTAA. We say NO TO THE FTAA! \r\n\r\n*** The enormous military aid to Colombia--in the billions of dollars--has increased massacres and other human rights violations. Under the guise of a \"war on drugs,\" we have seen an escalating \"war on the poor,\" financed by the U.S.  We say NO TO PLAN COLOMBIA! \r\n\r\n*** Immigrants and refugees, often in the U.S. as a result of this country's military interventions and economic policies, enrich our cultural, educational and community life.  They are building the economy of this country! They face exploitation &amp; forms of repression daily. FULL LEGALIZATION, FULL RIGHTS FOR IMMIGRANTS! \r\n\r\n***Democracy and justice in Latin America and the Caribbean is threatened by U.S. interference and intervention in the hemisphere.  No U.S. military interventions, blockades, U.S. bases or economic exploitation in the hemisphere...no interventions in the elections in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Brazil and throughout the Americas. \r\n\r\n***While the focus of the mobilization will be on four issues (FTAA, PLAN COLOMBIA, IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS and DEMOCRACY &amp; JUSTICE IN THE AMERICAS, there are many issues which will be addressed by marching contingents, banners, picket signs, speakers, press releases, puppets, and other forms of popular communication....just to mention a few of those: \r\n---U.S. bases out of Vieques and Latin America! \r\n---Stop the devastation of the environment! \r\n---Wages For All Work! Living Wages For All Work! \r\n---Stop The Police and Court Attack On Our Youth! \r\n---Boycott Taco Bell--Support the tomato pickers of Florida! \r\n---Free Lori! Free Mumia! Free All Political Prisoners! \r\n---Stop the Deadly Agricultural Fumigation In Colombia! \r\n---No U.S. Intervention In the Nicaraguan elections of 2001! \r\n---End The Blockade of Cuba! \r\n---Full Rights and Respect for the Indigenous of Colombia, Mexico and the Americas! \r\n---Close The School of the Americas! (now called WHISC) \r\n---NO to the WTO, Fast Track, the International Monetary Fund &amp; World Bank \r\n---Universal Health Care for all! and dozens more! \r\n-----------and speakers can incorporate these issues into their statements! \r\n  \r\nA written \"Call,\" in leaflet form, will be issued soon with more detailed analysis.  Please forward this \"Call\" to all of your list-serves, e-groups and organizations to ensure a large July 20th meeting. \r\n\r\nMARCH FOR JUSTICE! SPEAK OUT AGAINST CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION! \r\n\r\nDEFEND THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM U.S. MILITARY &amp; ECONOMIC INTERVENTION! \r\n\r\nMARCH HAND-IN-HAND WITH THE IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES IN OUR COMMUNITY! \r\n\r\nBE A STRONG VOICE FOR WORKERS AND THE POOR, AT HOME &amp; IN THE AMERICAS \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n\r\nThe final leaflet will be signed by hundreds of groups, unions, community  organizations and others. This initial \"Call\" is issued by the 40 Organizations of the Latin America Solidarity Conference (LASC) which met in Chicago in March of 2001. Also joining in this call are: \r\n\r\nActionLA, \r\nAlliance For Global Justice, \r\nAlysansa ng Komunidad (AK Community Alliance), \r\nAmerican Friends Service Committee (AFSC),\r\nAPALA(Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance), \r\nBAYAN International USA, \r\nBlack Radical Congress,\r\nCARECEN (Central American Resource Center), \r\nCasa Nicaragua ,\r\nCentro Communitario Centroamericano (CCCA), \r\nChiapas Coalition 98, \r\nCHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrants' Rights, Los Angeles), \r\nCLUE (Clergy &amp; Laity United for Economic Justice),\r\nCoastal Convergence Society of Huntington Beach, \r\nColombia Action Network, \r\nComite Pro-Democracia en Mexico,\r\nCommittee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)\r\nCommittees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), \r\nConciencia Libre\/UCLA, \r\nDuro Bag Workers Support Network, \r\nEl Rescate, \r\nFarabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN-Los Angeles), \r\nFreedom Socialist Party, \r\nFrente Unido de Los Pueblos Americanos (FUPA), \r\nGabriela Network, \r\nGarment Workers Center, \r\nGlendale Greens,\r\nGlobal Exchange, \r\nHEED, \r\nHomies Unidos,\r\nIndustrial Workers of the World\/Los Angeles,\r\nInquilinos Unidos (UnitedTenants), \r\nInternational Action Center (IAC), \r\nInternational Socialist Organization (ISO), \r\nInternational Workers Association (AIT),\r\nJUSTICE FOR JANITORS\/SEIU Local 1877, \r\nKabataang maka-Bayan,\r\nKIWA (Korean Immigrant Workers' Advocates), \r\nKorean Resource Center, \r\nLatinas y Latinos For Social Change (Boston), \r\nLATR (Tendencia Revolucionaria de El Salvador), \r\nLos Angeles Community Legal Center,\r\nLos Angeles County Federation of Labor, \r\nMEChA de UCLA, \r\nMEChA, So. Cal. Region,\r\nMedea Benjamin\/Global Exchange, \r\nMexico-U.S. Border Action Project, \r\nNajee Ali and Project Islamic H.O.P.E., \r\nNational Lawyers Guild (NLG), \r\nNicaNet, \r\nNISGUA, \r\nOccidental College Student Labor Committee,\r\nOccidental Students Against Sweatshops,\r\nOctober 22nd Coalition, \r\nOffice of the Americas (OOA), \r\nOrange Country Greens,\r\nPeoples' Core, \r\nPESANTE (Philippine Peasants Support Network), \r\nProf. Enrique C. Ochoa (Dept. of History and Latin American Studies, CSULA), \r\nProject Islamic Hope,\r\nPuerto Rican Alliance of Los Angeles, \r\nRabbi Steven Jacobs (Temple Kol Tikvah), \r\nRadical Women, \r\nRaging Grannies,\r\nRefuse &amp; Resist!, L.A. Chapter,\r\nRev. George Regas, The Regas Institute,\r\nRev. Tomas Lopez of the United Methodist Church, \r\nSalvadoran-American Leadership and Educational Fund (SALEF),\r\nSan Fernando Valley Chapter of The Alliance for Democracy, \r\nSan Gabrial Greens,\r\nSandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN-Los Angeles), \r\nSchool of the Americas Watch (SOA-Watch), \r\nSo. California Americans for Democratic Action (SoCalADA), \r\nSo. California Fair Trade Network (SCFTN), \r\nSub-Guerrilla Art Collective,\r\nSweatshop Watch, \r\nThe Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence, \r\nThe Socialist Party,\r\nThe United Peoples, \r\nThroop Unitarian Church, Pasadena,\r\nU.S.-El Salvador Sister City Project, \r\nUnidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG-Los Angeles), \r\nUnion de Vecinos,\r\nUnitarian Church of Orange County,\r\nWitness For Peace, \r\nWomen's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), \r\nYoung Koreans United (YKU-LA)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPlease join this \"Call\"immediately! Many agencies and organizations have been involved in the initial planning but have waited until a final \"Call\" is issued to formally add their names. Now is the time!  Those many groups should send their endorsements to  as quickly as possible.  At the initial meeting at CARECEN on July 20 we would like the list to be MUCH longer and to include the many immigrants' rights organizations who have been collaborating on this \"Call.\" \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPlease join the S29 Listserv! \r\nSend e-mail to: S29-subscribe@yahoogroups.com\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n  \r\n\r\n  \r\n\r\nLos Angeles S29 Justice Coalition \r\nMailing address:  \r\nS29 Justice Coalition  \r\n8124 West 3rd Street, Suite 104 \r\nLos Angeles, California 90048 \r\n\r\n------or----- \r\n\r\n\r\n P.O. Box 57337 \r\nLos Angeles, California  90057 \r\n\r\nTemporary e-mail address:  \r\nlacispes@igc.org \r\n\r\nTemporary telephone numbers:  \r\n323-852-0721\/323-658-6846 \r\n  \r\n\r\n\r\nFor donations:\r\n\r\nChecks may be made payable to:  \r\nSEE\/S29 \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Web designer: Lee Siu Hin, e-mail:siuhin@aol.com \r\n                  ActionLA\/Mexico-US Border Action Project \r\n  \r\n  \r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"SEPT 29 DOWNTOWN LA INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/09\/downtown_l.html","filesize":"11.5 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/09\/10858.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":10865,"heading":"This is a fraudulent story!","article":"      We hope this is just a misguided, uninformed person who posted the story.  It is totally fraudulent.  The S29 event has been postponed and the overwhelming majority of the endorsers listed here have withdrawn their endorsements until the event is rescheduled.\r\n     There is something going on downtown on September 29, sponsored by a different group, but the original S29 event, with the sponsors listed in this story, has been postponed.  Was this done intentionally?  ","author":"Latin America Solidarity Conf.","parent_id":10858,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-27 21:21:14","modified":"2001-09-27 21:37:44","fileurl":""},{"id":10888,"heading":"correction","article":"The post fraudulently lists all of the original S29 mobilization endorsers, many of which have withdrawn their support for the event on September 29th.  Among the groups which have withdrawn their endorsements are the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, CARECEN, El Rescate, PACE, Witness For Peace, CHIRLA, MEChA, CISPES, Sweatshop Watch, So. California Fair Trade Network, Office of the Americas, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and most of the unions, religious communities and campus organizations. \r\n\r\nI hope the event is successful.  Please, however, do not misrepresent these organization, that is disrespectful and damaging to future collaborations.  ","author":"Mary","parent_id":10858,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-09-28 04:56:16","modified":"2001-09-28 05:56:24","fileurl":""}]}