From:  globalaction-news@egroups.com

Subject:  N30 - WTO Protests - 1 Year Anniversary

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If, somehow, you hadn't already noticed, it may interest you to know that N30 2000, the one-year anniversary of the WTO protests is right around the corner!

And Seattle invites you back to our streets. Organizations such as Jubilee 2000 Northwest, No to WTO/People's Assembly, King County Labor Council, Citiaction, Sustainable Fisheries Alliance, Seattle Food Not Bombs, Tibetan Rights Action Coalition, Global Action Seattle, Your Mother's Army, Socialist Alternative, Basement Nation, IAM Productions, Seattle Black Cross Health Care Collective, and others are mobilizing for many different aspects of N30 week.

Last year on November 30, something incredible happened. We shut down the WTO ministerial and built diverse coalitions right in the streets of downtown Seattle. We should celebrate our solidarity, our community, and the amazing effect N30 1999 had on the entire world. While people around the world have been fighting for years against the WTO and globalization, the Seattle protests sent a message of strength, resistance, and hope to others in the struggle.

Last year we got the message out about the destructive and exploitative practices of the WTO. Today, we need to get the message out that the WTO is still a threat to our communities and that the IMF, World Bank, and other global institutions and transnational corporations are still busy at work undermining our democracy. (Did somebody say Free Trade Agreement of the Americas?) We have a lot of work to do, educating, organizing, community building, revolutionizing?

Let's take the week of November 30 to celebrate our resistance to the present course of globalization. If you can, come to Seattle and join us. Call (206) 505-1554 ext. 1396 for help finding housing. If you can't make it to Seattle, we hope that you will be able to organize a solidarity event. If your community is planning an event, please let us know by emailing n30-00@visto.com, so we can add it to our list.

We are compiling a list of all "N30" events around the world at www.citiaction.org/home/n30/

Check out www.scn.org/wto/cal/ for a complete, detailed list of Seattle events for the week of N30.

For live-streaming coverage of N30 events, go to www.microradio.net (in Seattle, tune in to 89.1FM.)
 

A sampling of the week's events:

November 26:
3pm - Jam for Justice fundraiser at Tent City (El Centro de la Raza). Live music and Food Not Bombs. $10 cover.

7pm and 9pm - "This Is What Democracy Looks Like," the feature-length film about the WTO protests in Seattle, produced by the Independent Media Center and Big Noise Films. At the Broadway Performance Hall (Broadway and Pine). Sliding scale: $7-20.

November 29:
6-10pm - Jubilee 2000/People's Assembly "Night of Solidarity" teach-in and cultural event, focusing on debt as a symptom of globalization. First United Methodist Church, at 5th and Marion in downtown Seattle.

7:00pm - Jam for Justice and the Independent Media Center present live music and DJs at the Showbox on 1st and Pike in downtown Seattle. Tickets $10 at the Showbox, the IMC, or the Speakeasy.

9:00pm - "Transmutations" Show for Social Justice, with Basement Nation, The Flood, and other live music. Rainbow Tavern, on 45th and 8th in the University District. Presented by Independent Action Media.

**November 30 - "N30"**
12:00pm - "Global Potluck" at Westlake Park (between 3rd and 4th, Pike and Pine, in downtown Seattle). A giant cake will be delivered to Mayor Paul Schell and Port Commissioner Pat Davis to thank them for helping to expose the WTO. "No WTO" cookies and organic apples will be provided; bring good food from the earth and your own fork.

12:34pm - Student/Worker Walk-out! Dance party, DJs, bands, cuisine by Food Not Bombs. Gather at Seattle Central Community College (Broadway and Pine, Seattle), eat, dance, rock out, then march downtown.

2:30pm - No to WTO/People's Assembly march from 4th and Jackson. Continuing the resistance against the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and all imperialism.

Marches will meet at Westlake Park for music, speakers, street theater - a celebration of solidarity in the streets and protest/rally against corporate globalization.

There may be a labor-sponsored event around 5pm at Victor Steinbrueck Park. Still unconfirmed.

December 1:
11:00am - Mass Claims Filing (gather at 3rd and Jackson)
If you were gassed, sprayed, beaten, arrested, harassed, prevented from protesting, prevented from going downtown, intimidated by what they saw on TV, or in any other way harmed by the actions of the Seattle Police Department and/or the City of Seattle during the WTO protests? you are invited and encouraged to come down on December 1, fill out a claim form, and march en masse to City Hall to file them. In every case filed so far, the city has settled - to the tune of $2,500 - $10,000 a piece, so hundreds filing at once could be extremely powerful. It's not about the money; it's about strategy and ACCOUNTABILITY. (See http://www.seattlecan.org/can/claims.asp for more info; also to see schedule of legal clinics being offered in the next couple weeks.)

December 2:
10:00am - 6:30pm (doors open at 9am) at Seattle Central Community College (Broadway and Pine)

"Taking Back the Power: a community forum on local and global struggles for justice."

It's not just about the WTO; it's about justice. A teach-in with a wide variety of over 20 workshops including: Building Activist Skills, Environmental Justice, Your Legal Right to Protest, Institutional Racism, The ABC's of Globalization, Patents & the Ownership of Life, and many more. Opening talk with local activists Tyree Scott (Northwest Labor and Employment Office/LELO) and Hanna Petros (Ustawi, Jubilee 2000). Sponsors include: The American Friends Service Committee, People's Coalition for Justice, United for a Fair Economy, Citiaction, Jubilee 2000 NW, Roundtable for Environmental and Economic Justice, NW Labor and Employment Law Office (LELO), and Workers' Voices Coalition.

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