Friends and comrades, please take a moment to read this important message,

and please forward along.

From Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, the World Economic Forum (WEF) will be meeting

at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan for its annual summit. Alexander

Downer, who attended the 1998 Summit, describes the Summit as

the world's 'Business Olympics'. The yearly meeting, usually

held at WEF headquarters in Davos, Switzerland, was rescheduled

to meet in New York as a token of support for the injuries our

city sustained on September 11th. In reality, this meeting and

the agenda it represents are an affront to the people of New York,

who, like many others around the world, face a period of economic

uncertainty and austerity which threatens their very livelihoods.

The WEF is, in a way, a big cocktail party for the global corporate

elite. As an organization, it has no power to actually set policy,

but it creates a space in which international "leaders" can hash

out their vision for the rest of us. In their own words, "they

are fully engaged in the process of defining and advancing the

global agenda." More specifically, it's our globe, but it's their

agenda.

















































































































































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