{"article":{"id":93545,"heading":"GAPATISTAS RIDE AGAIN: We'd Rather Wear Nothing Than Wear Gap!!!","author":"Gapatista Roadshow to Stop the FTAA","created":"2003-11-10 01:11:08","modified":"2013-11-11 00:27:29","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:27:29","article":"<p>***We'd Rather Wear Nothing Than Wear Gap!!!*** <br><br> **12 noon, Tues, Nov 11, The Gap, 6830 Hollywood Blvd (&amp; Highland), Los Angeles ** <br>  <br> **Assemble 11:45am, around the corner on Las Palmas and Hollywood Blvd.** <br><br> WHY THE GAP? Gap Inc is a poster-corporation of transnational exploitation and the debacle of corporate economic globalization. From the Devastation of the Aral Sea to the Ruination of the Redwoods! From the exploitation of cotton-workers in Uzbekistan to needle-workers in sweatshops throughout the global south! From union-busting in maquiladoras to union-busting on US docks!!! Whether it's advising the President on lethal global trade policies, coercing the City of San Francisco to slash business taxes by 5\/6ths, or engaging in sweetheart deals to the tune of $18 million in public subsidies! Whether blocking a living wage for city workers or privatizing national parks, public schools, and public television&mdash;THE GAP IS THERE!!!  <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> To speak at this event  contact <a href=\"mailto:chalicenew@earthlink.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">chalicenew@earthlink.net<\/a>  415-731-7924 (office) or 415-509-1188 (cell Nov 10--25)  Join the Gaspatista Roadshow at any of our whistle-stops: Nov 11--16,  L.A., Tucson, El Paso, Austin, New Orleans, Tallahassee, &amp; Miami (check www.gapsucks.org for details)! <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"chalicenew@earthlink.net, pirohuck@mcn.org","link":"","address":"","phone":"415-509-1188, 415-731-7924","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Please join us for the Hollywood premiere of our GAPATISTA ROAD SHOW to Miami to stop the FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS (FTAA) Nov 17--21, where up to 100,000 protestors are expected to converge!!! At the Hollywood Gap action we\u2019ll march to the doors of the Gap with a giant 200-year-old redwood stump, logged by the Fishers of Gap, Inc. A mini FTAA & LOCAL ISSUES TEACH-IN will ensue, using the stump as a stage. Speakers will alternate with GREAT SONGS and RADICAL CHEERS, all building to the CLIMACTIC MOMENT when we STRIP for JUSTICE IN FOREST, FIELD, & FACTORY!!! We\u2019ll round off the action with lealfeting and one-on-one.  Come Strip with us for Redwoods and Workers Rights, for Global Ecology and Global Justice!!! Bring drums, noise-makers, and outlandish underwear!!! ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/11\/93545.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}