ATTENTION ALL THOSE WHO ARE DISGUSTED AT BUSH'S TANF PROPOSALS
FIRST EVER 1K RACE TO THE BOTTOM! --Watch CORPORATIONS GROAN under the weight of billions of dollars in tax-free profits as immigrants are denied basic services!
This event will bring together the ant-corporate globilization movement with local struggles in the US that are fighting against the slashing of the social safety net. We hope that this effort will launch a strong, enduring coalition to link local and global poverty issues and to immediately impact President Bush's proposed welfare legislation, which only further penalizes and criminalizes the poor while doing nothing to end poverty. Please JOIN US!!!!!!
--Feel the HEAT OF COMPETITION as it drags down workers, environmental protection and human rights!
--See the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM SLITHER its way from one five star hotel to the next!
--Hear the THUNDER OF THOUSANDS of the working poor pound the asphalt!
--Watch Corporate EXECUTIVES BRIBE THEIR WAY into new markets!
Awards immediately after the race in the categories of:
--Most Depraved Workfare Boss
--Country That Busted the Most Unions to Please Multinational Corporations
--Politician Quickest to Blame Poor Women for Society's Problems
So Where's it all Happening? NOTE DATE AND TIME CHANGE!!!
The 1K RACE TO THE BOTTOM starts with a rally at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (site of the regional World Economic Forum meeting) at **4 pm on TUESDAY, MAY 21**. The "Race to the Bottom" begins at 6pm sharp and ends at the World Bank.
DETAILS:
When: Tuesday, May 21, 4-7 PM
Where: Starts with a rally at the Chamber of Commerce (site of the World Economic Forum regional meeting) at 4 pm, on Connecticut Ave., NW between H and I Streets, right across from Lafayette Park and the White House. The race begins from the site of the Chamber of Commerce at 6 pm and ends in Murrow Park across from the IMF/WB headquarters, 18th & H Sts. NW,
Wash., DC at 6:30 or 7 pm with a short rally.
Who: National Coalition for Jobs and Income Support and the Mobilization for Global Justice.
For more background and contact information, visit <www.globalizethis.org> and <www.nationalcampaign.org>. And don't forget your running shoes!
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For more details, read on:
In a new alliance between the global justice movement and the anti-poverty movement, the Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ) and the National Campaign for Jobs and Income Security (NCJIS) are joining forces to confront the world's privileged and elite as they gather for the Trans-Atlantic meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
We call on all those who care about ending poverty at home and abroad to join us in this event, which promises to fill the streets outside the closed doors of the WEF with a loud, boisterous rally and theatrical Race to the Bottom. Help us send a clear message to the world's wealthy and to the politicians they control: We demand an end to policies that impoverish people everywhere. We demand an end to the policies that concentrate wealth, income and power in the hands of the WEF members and a select few, while leaving one in six children in the United States in poverty, and billions around the world struggling to survive on less than two dollars a day.
With the collaboration of NCJIS, whose members are predominantly those living in poverty directly affected by the regressive "Welfare Reform" of 1996, the MGJ hopes to launch a strong, enduring coalition to link local and global poverty issues and to immediately impact President Bush's proposed welfare legislation, which only further penalizes the poor while doing nothing to end poverty.
NCJIS is a coalition of more than 1000 grassroots community groups composed primarily of and led by low-income people. It believes that people most affected by public policies must develoup solutions and speakin their own voices. NCJIS is spearheading a national effort to to transform TANF into a meaningful anti-poverty program. In March of 2002,NCJIS held a day of events in DC, that involved rallies, lobbying and two separate direct actions involving over 1000 people and two notorious enemies of poverty reduction: the Heritage Foundation and the Democratic Leadership Council. For more information, see <www.nationalcampaign.org>.
The Mobilization for Global Justice is a Washington, DC based organizationof groups and individuals focused on the growing problem of corporate globalization in today's world. It sponsors educational events, rallies and demonstrations that serve to highlight the harmful neo-liberal economic policies carried out by unaccountable, undemocratic international financial institutions. Visit our web site at <www.globalizethis.org>.
Please add your ride or housing posting for the 1K RACE TO THE BOTTOM at <http://riseup.net/may2002/>
Meetings in DC every Wednesday night, see www.globalizethis.org or email racetothebottom at nationalcampaign.org for details.
Additional events are planned for the days around the WEF meeting, such as kickoff events for the Washington, DC Social Forum planned for this fall.
P.S. Remember to bring your running shoes!
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