NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY RESISTANCE

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Dissipating Dissent in the North American Union

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report back from "The Peoples Summit"
after the second sunburnt day of the gulf coast's people's summit, we here in new orleans are acting like we have months left before bush comes to town, when in fact he is here enjoying the city, comforted by air conditioning and motorcades. we are already witnessing the effects of his Security & Prosperity Partnership: with the mississippi river bridge's on and off ramps blocked, I-10 was made into an express highway, directing flows of traffic and people, conveniently out of his way, inconveniencing everyone else from having access to the city.

The canal street ferry, shuttling internally displaced traffic across the mississippi river, was circled through the day by coast guard boats fully armed and ready to fire mounted machine guns, in full show of force and what bush intends to mean by 'security,' we on the docks agreed was menacing and intimidating. the imminent, historic, and nation-altering meeting about to take place between the leaders of the "free world'' is being met with little, hardly any, noticeable resistance. Due at least in part to the crippled condition of new orleans, where 3 years after the hurricanes people continue to face daily struggles to survive, with no surplus resources, time, or active community members to lend to what would likely be, in any other city in the hemisphere, an equally historic People's protest to the executive meeting.

Civilian resistance and protest to massive free trade agreements seems to be planned for more by bush than by the american public or the "progressive left", and so new orleans is the perfect backdrop for the announcement of the spp: sweeping decisions adversely affecting millions of people are met with a strangled cry, gone unheard by the rest of the nation.

"Understanding who profits and how: NAFTA + and Katrina Profiteering" was a misnomer, a vague power-analysis turned roundcircle discussion, facilitated by the people's institute for survival and beyond. The session was attended by community organizers, international public service workers union representative, mexican trade unions, activists from chiapas, american and canadian youth, citizen journalists and media activists, farmer union representative, social workers, non-profit organizations, and new orleanians, served more as the critical race theory workshop that the Peoples Institute is known for, and not as any attempt for a coordinated approach or discussion on how to challenge bush, calderon and harper at this critical moment.

ironically, at this international summit, facilitators asked that we divide ourselves into national groups to notice similarities between new orleans and wherever we were visiting from, something that would have been manifold more useful to hear from each other, as it was a rare opportunity to hear voices from across the heavily guarded borders. discussion was derailed and became about how we are gate keepers, moving further and further away from any plan of action. the 6 hours were used as an introduction to social inequality, as if people signed up to take a class on the internalization of inferiority/superiority. in fact people came to act together in the face of big brother government.

for all of our talk on giving voices to disenfranchised people around the world, taking queues from these communities, learning from eachother, creating access to decision-making, none of the mexicans who traveled the long distance were asked what they thought should happen at this summit. there was no mention of their very successful strategies for organizing resistance to destructive neo-colonial economic policies. nobody asked "what can we do now that all of our presidents are in town?" instead was the same old, painfully ineffective naval-gazing

speaking with a gentleman from mexico after the looooong winded sessions were over, he asked what the break-out group of americans discussed, and i said they were just talking and not saying much, like americans do. and he laughed, agreeing said i should have been sitting with the mexican delegation because they were discussing that very
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NAU NOLA Peoples Summit Press Conference

Coverage of The Peoples Summit Press Conference April 20th in New Orleans.

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Day Labor Congress Play about the effects of NAFTA on workers.


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North American Union: Right Wing Opposition

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When something is bad for us often people from the right AND left can agree that it is bad for us even though we will have different reasons for thinking so. This video is from The Conservative Caucus and explains why right wingers are against the North American Union. BTW the state run web site Snopes.com claims the North American Union is an URBAN LEGEND; maybe someone should tell the leaders of these 3 countries that they don't need to meet to discus it then.

You can express YOUR disagreement with the North American Union on April 21st & 22nd in New Orleans when the "3 Amigos" (Bush, Calderon & Harper) meet to discuss their plans to make our 3 countries ONE country.

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Winter Soldier Mike Prysner

Mike's Testimony explains that the Iraq war, as well as most of the other wars, has been an exercise in racism & class war.

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Let's Get Civilized!

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Press Arrested for Filming Hot Pig on Bear Action

Monday October 22nd, at least 59 people had been arrested taking part in the No War No Warming direct action taking place all day on capitol hill. Protesters used creativity in staging their demonstrations to bring attention to the need to end the war in Iraq, and to focus our energy on solving the problem of global warming." Polar Bears for Solutions blocked entrances and sidewalks around the Cannon House office building on capitol hill in Washington DC.

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Hidden Facts of Iraq Resistance

released Sept. 8th ~ QuickTime 89mgs ~ Download Now
To defeat your enemy you must first understand their motives.

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Who Killed John O'Neil?

Ok, so this is really long... and really worth it if you have the time to pay attention. Once your into it you could safely listen while you delete spam or something. It's an extremely comprehensive account of what IS and what IS NOT known about September 11th 2001. ~ go large

John O'Neil started his new job as Head of Security at the World Trade Center on 9-11-01 His body was indentified by his employer Kroll Associates. TWO WEEKS, prior to the attack, O'Neill had left his job with the FBI. O'Neill had quit because he believed that the Bush administration had stymied the intelligence agency's investigations on terrorism. O'Neill charged that it had done so even as it bargained with the Taliban on handing over of Osama bin Laden in exchange for political recognition and economic aid. In the ultimate irony, O'Neill had gone public with these charges at the same time that he was leaving the FBI to become the head of security at the World Trade Center.

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Arming the World

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Robert Fisk Interview: What's a terrorist?

Independent journalist Brandon Jourdan interviews author/journalist Robert Fisk.

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Rev. Hagler ReMix ~We Will Not Be Silenced (part2)

A Rev. Graylan Hagler speech at the 2004 School of the Americas protest remixed by someone extremely talented (not me). I believe they used my footage/audio of the event, but.. I'm not sure.

Related Links ::: Fluxview, USA 2004 S.O.A., part 1, We Will Not Be Silenced

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Blow Up Russia

Global Fascist Conspiracy History

They didn't wanna know in Germany, they didn't wanna know in Russia,
We don't wanna know in the US. A Slice of State Sponsored Terrorism History

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Globalisation and the Media

World view media from UnderCurrents.

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VIDEO: Resistencia! Tearing Down Fences

Since I can't make my own videos right now I thought I post some underappreciated work from others from time to time.
This is from Pan Left Productions
Resistencia! Tearing Down Fences
A personal account of the director's experiences in the anti-globalization movement during fall 2003, Resistencia covers ground from the anti-WTO actions in Cancún to the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Miami. Addressing the impacts of tourism, agriculture in a global setting, organized labor, media control, and the rise of the police state, Resistencia offers a glimpse into worldwide organizing against corporate globalization from a regional angle with a focus on movements in Mexico and the United States.
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Bush & Blair to Stand Trial at the G8?

The following are excerpts from an interview with British MP George Galloway, aired by Al-Jazeera TV on June 1, 2005.

Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalized capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known. It has killed far more people than Adolph Hitler. It has killed far more people than George Bush. The economic system which these people support, which leaves most of the people in the world hungry, and without clean water to drink. So we're going to put them on trial, the leaders, when they come. They think they're coming for a holiday in a beautiful country called Scotland; in fact, they're coming to their trial.

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~ IndyMedia G8 Action Coverage ~ Last Years G8 Protest Action
~ The Full Fluxview News G8 Video AnArchive

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Business Weak ~ Video Collection

Reasons Against the G-8 Summit
Audio presentation of the book "Reasons Against G8" by David Miller
The Pit Falls of Corporate Privatization (globalization).

Coke Kills
Union Organizers in South America are being murdered to insure the continued exploitation of their labor. This is a press conference on the subject from the G8 Summit protests of 2004. QuickTime 18mg download

Enron Retirement Video
Mainstream story of an actual retirement party video for an Enron Exec. their so called satire is eerily prophetic and includes an endorsement from George W. Bush.

The Battle of Blair Mountain
The only time in history that the United States government dropped bombs on its own people was in a fight to unionize the coal mines at the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921

Immokalee: a story of slavery and freedom
Brutal exploitation of farmworkers, including slavery and indentured servitude, continues to plague thousands in the fields and groves of south Florida.

¡Resistencia! Tearing Down Fences
Resistencia covers the anti-WTO actions in Cancún to the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Miami; addressing the impacts of tourism, agriculture in a global setting, organized labor, media control, and the rise of the police state.

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