This is a callout from the anti-FTAA campaign based in Quito, Ecuador. Recognising that bilateral free trade agreements with the United States have replaced the FTAA as the new and immediate threat for the Andean and Central American nations, we call out for an international network of solidarity to fight neoliberalist politics and mobilize on April 17 international day of peasant struggles.

The finance ministers of every Latin American nation last week signed on to a resolution in principle to join the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the hemispheric expansion of NAFTA... Every nation but one:  Venezuela, the single and solitary nation to say "no thanks" at Miami's treaty of the living dead economies...

December 5, 2003, Quebec City

Dear Friends:

After more than two-and-a-half years, all charges against me related to
the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City (April 2001) have been dropped.

“The new artist protests, he no longer paints; he creates directly…life and art make One."

Tristan Tzara, Dada manifesto

An activist theatre is descending on Montreal, and the “authorities" are not happy about it. In another disgraceful assault on Montreal’s culture and theatre, the cops recently busted a theatrical community event that was brimming with promise and flare. On November 20th Montrealers attempted to stage the theatrical street party to voice their opposition to the neoliberal FTAA in a participatory, theatrical, and carnivalesque atmosphere; the theatre in question is none other than Reclaim the Streets (RTS).

Protesters have been beaten, sexually assaulted, tortured, and abused by Miami police during and after the FTAA demonstrations. Some protesters are in critical condition. Please read how you can help the over 250 people arrested - some are in hospital!

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RECLAIM THE STREETS
FROM MONTREAL TO MIAMI, NO FTAA!!!

= = = =November 20th 2003= = =
Meeting point:
3pm, at Square Berri
Metro Berri-UQAM, (corner of Ste-Catherine and Berri)

On November 20th 2003, the Anti-Capitalist Coalition Against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (CACZLEA) invites you to participate in a march that will converge at a "Reclaim the Streets" in downtown Montreal. The goal of the Reclaim the Streets is to reapropriate a corner or a part of a street and to create a space of popular education where people will be invited to come to get information about the FTAA. There will be food, music, circus presentations, live painting, street theatre, and more-- all to make this event festive while keeping in mind the gravity and seriousness of the FTAA.

In solidarity with the demonstrations in the streets of Miami where the meeting of the trade ministers of FTAA will take place, lets get out in OUR streets and reclaim them!

A CALL TO ALL ARTISTS
WE NEED YOUR TALENT!
FOR THE RECLAIM THE STREETS
--20 NOVEMBRE 2003--

...people want their land and they are often suffering terrible repression from the land owners and the high number of deaths that campesinos have suffered in trying to carry out the land reform program...

Generic competition is the most important, reliable and powerful means of reducing drug prices in low- and middle-income countries in the Americas and elsewhere.

Three confidential documents from inside the World Trade Organization Secretariat and a group of captains of London finance, who call themselves the "British Invisibles," reveal the extraordinary secret entanglement of industry with government in designing European and American proposals for radical pro-business changes in WTO rules...

Call-out to organize five days of events in September in solidarity with the mobilizations in Cancun.

200 peaceful individuals were arrested this morning in the Green Zone on St-Laurent boulevard....

** Anti-Capitalist Coalition Against the FTAA (CACZLEA) **
**Mobilization Against the WTO Mini-Ministerial in Montreal**

THE CONSULTA

All groups and individuals involved in the struggle for global justice are invited to take part in a Northeast Regional Consulta. The Consulta will serve to organize and to coordinate responses to important upcoming meetings of the FTAA and the WTO -- notably the Montreal WTO mini-ministerial in late July, the WTO Cancun summit in September, and the Miami FTAA ministerial in late November 2003 -- as well as to help build longterm educational initiatives and anti-capitalist networking.