Updated: January 31, 2002

Official Websites for the anti-WEF Protests

The following call in Portuguese: Chamado para uma convergência anti-capitalista contra o Fórum Econômico Mundial em Nova Iorque (31 de janeiro a 4 de fevereiro)
The following call in French: VENEZ NOUS REJOINDRE LORSQUE LES NEW YORKAIS CONTRE-ATTAQUERONT LES CORPORATIONS DE LA TERREUR
The following call in Italian: APPELLO PER UNA COALIZIONE ANTI-CAPITALISTA CONTRO IL WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM A NEW YORK CITY (31 GENNAIO - 4 FEBBRAIO)

CALL FOR AN ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE AGAINST THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IN NEW YORK CITY (JANUARY 31- FEBRUARY 4)

JOIN US AS NEW YORKERS STRIKE BACK AGAINST CORPORATE TERROR

For years now, the CEOs of major corporations, hundreds of top international government officials and just plain rich people - from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton - have been meeting every year in Davos, Switzerland. This is where the real rulers of the world give the politicians their marching orders. This is where the schemes that lead to atrocities like GATT and the WTO are actually hatched. And this year, the dining club for the world ruling class will be held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

The WEF is moving here because they were effectively chased out of Switzerland by a concerted campaign of direct action. They think that here in New York we're shell-shocked, punch-drunk, and maybe we are but - whaddya fuckin' kiddin' me?

This is a provocation. While thousands of New Yorkers are still burying their dead, trying to patch together shattered lives, and desperately trying to see how they can continue to pay insanely high New York City rents after being laid off from their jobs, the richest and most powerful men on earth have decided to come and party on the wreckage - to celebrate, no doubt, the billions of dollars of taxpayer money they've just been handed by their respective governments and explore new opportunities to profiteer from permanent global warfare. Do they think we have no pride? No self-respect? That we're just going to sit back and let this happen?

As our heroic firefighters have shown us, the moratorium on direct action in New York is over.

We are calling for for a joyous, creative resistance to the WEF's stifling grey culture of corporate conformity; actions whose diversity of tactics will reflect the rich diversity of our city's communities. We are calling for actions based on principles of non-hierarchy, passionate opposition to patriarchy, white supremacy, and rule-by-elite, and the vision of a world in which no one has to live in fear or daily terror. We are calling for a world in which states and their wars, the economic violence and insecurity promulgated by their corporate overlords, the hideous legacy of 500 years of colonialism and racism, and the violence and intolerance of every kind of crusader and religious fanatic will finally be banished from this earth.

It's not a pipe dream. Nothing is impossible if we refuse to live in fear.

WOULD YOU CARE TO JOIN US IN A SOCIAL REVOLUTION?

RSVP
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
New York City
January 31-February 4

ENDORSERS

Society for Creative Anarchism (Williamsburg, Virginia)

Zek Liberation Collective (Washington, District of Columbia)

Infoshop.org (Cyberspace)

flag.blackened.net (Cyberspace)

Arthur J. Miller (Bayou La Rose)

Tension Collective (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Words Are Not Enough (Washington, District of Columbia)

R Stockwell, IWW, IU 610

White Pines Affinity Group (Albany, New York)

Instant Antiwar Action Group (Vermont / iaag@mail2usa.com)

Aron Pieman Kay - Global Pastry Uprising (Rainbow Affinity Group)

CrimethInc. Special Forces

NOLA Anarchy (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Kevin Keating, Mission Yuppie Eradication Project (San Francisco, California)

Tute Nere Collective (Washington, District of Columbia)

we do not exist (n'existons pas)

Starhawk

Northwest Anarchist Prisoner Support Network

Free and Critter Legal Defense Committee

Cascadia Media Collective

le Sous-sol Collective (Eugene, Oregon)

Student Peace Action Network (SPAN)

Red And Black Flag Collective (Montreal)

Black Touta (Toronto, Ontario)

Anti-Capitalist Convergence Philippines

Chicago Direct Action Network

Chicago Anti-Capitalist Convergence

Blue Ridge Earth First!

Urban Guerrilla Division, Earth Liberation Front

Malachy Kilbride

Colorado Anarchist Network (CAN-Denver, Ft Collins, Boulder- wide)

Redneck Liberation Army (Richmond, Virginia)

NYC Direct Action Network

Killing King Abacus (Santa Cruz, California)

Chumbawamba

Paul Krassner (the Realist)

Doug Henwood (Left Business Observer)

Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY)

The transnational corporations observatory (France)

Class War Baltimore

North American Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network (Eugene, Oregon)

Mark Taylor, Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Professor of Religion and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary

Roots Media collective (NY)

Midnight Notes Collective, publishers of Midnight Notes

Connecticut Global Action Network (CGAN)

People's Law Collective (NYC)

Desiderata Collective (New Brunswick, New Jersey)

Steve Ongerth

la CLAC - Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes (Montreal, Canada)

Wu Ming (Italy)

The Thomas Paine Park Group (NYC)

CRAFT - Chicago Revolutionary Artists for Fair Trade

Daybreak Anarchist Collective (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Food Not Bombs (Middletown, Connecticut)

Left Turn

San Francisco Independent Media Center

Anti-Capitalist Convergence (Washington, DC)

Food Not Bombs, Hartford (Connecticut)

Movement for Anarchy (Cyberspace)

Food Not Bombs (Albany, New York)

No More Standardized Tests (Hoosic Valley High School Chapter)

John Glansbeek

Black Cat Collective (Bristol, England)

Kostya Branwen Sudice (Artemis ReBorn's House of The Goddess Center for Pagan Wombyn)

Houston Global Awareness Collective (Houston, Texas)

LostCauseCollective (Marquette, Michigan)

Raise the Fist (raisethefist.com)

Los Angeles Anarchist Collective (LAanarchists.org)

Urban Warriors (Midwest, USA)

Vancouver Mobilization for Global Justice (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

Two Rivers Earth First! (southern Maryland)

Towson Action Group, Towson University (Maryland)

Queers For Racial & Economic Justice

WTHS Amnesty International (Warminster, PA)

IWW - New York City

Professor Dana Ward (Anarchy Archives)

Information Liberation Front (ILF, NY)

Roundhouse Collective (NEFAC)

Food Not Bombs (Baltimore, MD)

International Socialist Organization (Chapel Hill, NC branch)

George Katsiaficas (New Political Science)

London Reclaim the Streets (London, England)

Earth First!, Massachusetts

Climate Action NOW! (Redway, California)

Mintwood Media Collective (Washington, DC)

Food Not Bombs, Manhattan (New York)

New Jersey Anti-Capitalist Working Group

Parrafosdemenciales (Mexico City)

Theological Seminary

Walls Down! (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)

Zapatista Block Collective

YAR! (Youth Anarchist Resistance) - Toronto, Ontario

York Mobilization for Global Justice (York, Canada)

Kolektif Arus Bawah, (Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia)

IWW - Madison, Wisconsin

Hampshire Direct Action Group (H-DAG)

Direct Action Network (Lansing, MI)

Bergen Action Network (Bergen County, New Jersey) www.bergenaction.net

Sabate Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-Boston)

Buero fuer Undeutsche Umtriebe (Berlin, Germany/Washington, DC)

Herbert G. Vaughan, Jr. M.D. Stamford Connecticut

G.A.S.T.A.P.'s (Leeds, United Kingdom)

Savannah Food Not Bombs (Savannah, GA)

The Intima (http://intima.tao.ca)

Dragonfly Reel (Cleveland, Ohio)

Industrial Workers of the World - IWW (International)

Animal Defense League of Long Island (ADL-LI) www.500reasons.org

Animal Defense League of New Jersey (ADL-NJ) www.animaldefenseleague.com

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC-USA) www.shacusa.net

Food Not Bombs (Cleveland, Ohio)

Harrisonburg school (York, Pennsylvania)

The A.E.F. - Anti.Everything.Front (Scarborough,Ontario,Canada)

Anti-WEF Coordination Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria)

Modern Times Collective (Long Island, NY)

SPARK (Subversive People Actively Revolutionizing Community) (Suffolk County, NY)

Plattform gegen Rassismus und Sozialabbau (Platform against Racism and Social Deprivement) in Salzburg, Austria

Institute for Social Ecology (Vermont)

BMCC for a Democratic New York, The City University of New York--Borough of Manhattan Community College

Socialist Youth (Barcelona, Spain)

MicroRadio.NET

New York Stop the Power Plant Coalition

EarthConcertProject

Austin Democracy Coalition

Upcoming Planning Meetings

NEW YORK CITY

All Anarchist Meeting
Saturdays, 3pm - 5pm
Theater for a New City
155 1st Avenue

Another World is Possible Coalition
Every Sunday
3pm to 7pm
St Marks Church
(131 E. 10th St)

WASHINGTON, DC

Anti-Capitalist Convergence
Saturday, January 12th, 7:00pm
DISARM HOUSE
723 Euclid Street NW
Washington DC
(between Georgia and Sherman Aves.)
metro is walkable [Green Line: Shaw-Howard Univ.]
Call 703-276-9768, ext. 7 for latest on meeting locations and events

Ride Board

Upcoming Events

Intergalactic Anarchist Conference Jan. 17-20 in New York City

A 4 Day Festival of Radical Politics, Performance, and Subversive Joy.

How do we confront the upcoming World Economic Forum (WEF) meetings and stop the BRUTAL bombing of Afghanistan? How will we counter the accelerating fascism, the vicious assault on our basic freedoms, and the permanent state of war? How do we save the beauty of our small and vulnerable planet?

Come to a four day festival where we will explore these issues in depth through workshops, speakers and films with music & performances raging throughout the night.

7-15$ Sliding Scale; 5$ for beings dressed in celestial garb
Proceeds will go to Mayday Books and WEF action legal funds

DATES: Jan 17-20
LOCATION: At CHASHAMA 129 West 42nd
(bet. Broadway & 6th ave.at Times Sq.) IN NYC.
SUBWAY: 2, 3, 1/9, D, F, N, R, or 7 train
to 42nd st.
FOR INFO: (212) 699-3825 ext.1288 WEBSITE: www.igac.infoliberationfront.org
E-MAIL intergalacticanarchy@yahoo.com

Speakers include Amy Goodman, award winning journalist of Democracy Now! and Frank Morales (of Covert Action Quarterly) who will explore the effects of recent anti-terrorist legislation on domestic dissent. Learn more about the upcoming WEF convergence in NYC, Israel/Palestine conflict, Mumia, global ecological crisis, workers’ struggles, feminist issues and the significance of anarchism in the 21st century. There will be medic and legal trainings, and workshops on puppetmaking, DIY women’s health and independent media making.

Films on the human rights disasters in Iraq, Palestine, and Afghanistan, as well as short documentries on international anti-corporate uprising and environmental struggles will be screened. NYC IMC will show "9.11" -- a film on the recent terrorist attacks in NYC. Warcry Independent Cinema will screen insurrectionary music videos.

Performers include Penny Arcade, Rev. Billy, Zero Boy, and spoken word artist Tuli Kupferberg. Seth Tobocman will exihibit his comic art slides.

Music will range from free jazz to punk with DJ's spinning sounds til dawn. Bands will include German Cars vs. American Homes, the Jemeel Moondoc Quartet, and Renegades of Punk and the hardcore Diecide.

The Intergalactic Anarchist Convention is being held two weeks before the World Economic Forum. This event will bring us together, serving as a springboard for the actions surrounding the W.E.F. meetings, catalyzing a potent resistance to ongoing corporate tyranny, State brutality and political repression.

The Other Davos

Protest at WEF

The Public Eye on Davos