-Andy English
-----Original Message----- From: aucad at dclink.com <aucad at dclink.com> To: Recipients of conference <labr.party at conf.igc.apc.org> Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: The Battle After Seattle, putting the heat on the IMF/World Bank
>Dear labor party list members,
>
>Hundreds of activists in the Washington DC area - including dozens of Labor
>Party members and the Metro Labor Council - have been meeting to plan
series
>of demonstrations that will take the Battle In Seattle to DC and to the
>doorsteps of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the White
>House and Congress. April 16 is targeted as the the key event, with others
>on April 17 and other days. These days coincide with IMF/World Bank
>meetings. See www.a16.com for details.
>
>We in the DC Metro-area Labor Party are planning a political reception in
>the evening of April 16 (LP national organizer Tony Mazzocchi has
tentatively agreed to attend and
>speak). We also have planned (this was done long before the A16/17 events
>were planned) an all-day Just Health Care Health Fair and Teach-in for Sat.
>April 15 to be held at Georgetown University in Washington (see
>www.freespeech.org/justhealthcare ).
>
>Are any LP chapters planning to come to Washington, DC for the A15/16/17
>weekend? Has there been any discussion about this yet in any of your
>chapters or union locals in East Coast or nearby-midwest (Ohio, West Va.
>etc.) states and cities? Given the excitement and interest generated by the
>Seattle events last Nov., the A16/17 events are sure to be the biggest
>fair-trade demonstrations we have ever seen in this town (although we are
>shying away from any preditions of size).
>
>We held a Labor Party Forum on the Fair Trade movement, the Seattle events
>and the A16/17 events last week which drew about 70 people.
>
>The Mob. for Global Justice, the coalition of groups organizing A16/17 has
a
>strong labor outreach committee working with the Metro Labor Council to get
>other local and national/internation labor participation.
>
>I will be interested in hearing from brother and sister LPers as to your
>plans.
>
>In solidarity,
>Chris Driscoll, chairman, DC Metro-area Labor Party
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