Upcoming Quebec City protests

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[ed:  I will have a bit more about this below.]

From: Maryellen Lewis <lewisma9 at pilot.msu.edu>

Hello all:
         In case this isn't on your radar yet, I thought you might be 
interested to know about this planned anti-globalization action that will 
take place later this month, to protest the controversial Summit of the 
Americas in Quebec City.
         Like the Seattle action against the World Trade Organization over 
a year ago, the issues being protested here are diverse but converge around 
three main issues:  (1) That the restructuring of global economic policies 
is occurring through an undemocratic process predicted to increase global 
economic inequality and injustice;  (2) that the concessions being made to 
powerful business interests will erode (and already have eroded) worker 
protections and well-being;  and (3) that concessions are similarly 
jeopardizing environmental protections as countries compete for the 
attentions of global capital.  (I hope this is not too much of an 
over-simplification!)
         Like many public protest actions, these are basic arguments about, 
in a democratic framework, what rules should we follow -- and who 
decides?  Who gets to sit at the table, and in the end, who benefits and 
who pays?
another update from
Maryellen

[ed:  Mary Ellen also refers us to an article which can be found at 
http://www.samessenger.com/APR01/protests0403.html . To learn more, you can 
check out the Indymedia Quebec outlet at http://quebec.indymedia.org/ . 
Indymedia, you may remember, was one of the results of Seattle and 
completely changed the rules of how protest media works.]