FTAA EVENTS

Oct 11, 4 - 6 p.m.: Tell Senator John Kerry NO to the Second Colonization of the Americas! Rally at Kerry's office, 1 Bowdoin Sq Boston to protest his support for Fast Track and Plan Colombia, and to tell him to vote no on
the FTAA. 

Oct. 15, 6:00 p.m.: Meeting of the BGAN-FTAA Legislative working group, American Friends Service Committee, 2161 Mass. Ave., Cambridge

Oct 16, 6:30 p.m.: "Nuestro Mundo No Esta en Venta: Campesinos in Ecuador Confront the Free Trade Area of the Americas," Report by Justin Rubin on his time in Ecuador, organizing and mobilizations happening in preparation for the FTAA meeting in Quito on Oct 31, Northeastern Univ., Curry Student Center, Room 320 (346 Huntington Ave.)

Oct 29, 6 p.m.: BGAN Forum: "War on the Poor: Plan Colombia and the FTAA" An eyewitness account by Colombian trade unionist Hector Giraldo, Central Square Branch, Cambridge Public Library, 45 Pearl Street.

JUSTICE FOR JANITORS CAMPAIGN

The more than 10,000 janitors who clean Boston-area office buildings are standing up for the American Dream. 

These workers maintain more than 1,000 office buildings in downtown Boston and the suburbs.

While the owners of the buildings they clean are earning healthy profits, the janitors who keep them clean struggle to make ends meet.

Despite many profitable years for the real estate industry, janitors are paid as little as $39 a day. Because their salaries are so low and they are given only four hours of work each night, most janitors are forced to work two or three jobs to provide for their family.

Show Your Support! Join the Campaign Today! 

http://www.massjwj.net/j4j.html

November 1-3, Hampshire College - Amherst, MA

You are invited to the first major regional gathering of GE activists since the landmark "Biodevastation 2000" events in Boston, when 4000 people marched on the annual convention of the biotech industry. Come and join with people from across the region to learn and develop strategies to protect our food, our health and our farms from genetic engineering. Special guests will include farmers from the front lines of anti-GE campaigns across the country, plus music, theater and more.

Workshops will include the science of genetic engineering, farmers and the politics of food, globalization and GMOs, plus campaign reports from across the region, strategy discussion and development, and skill trainings to help create a more effective and inspiring movement!

Help us spread the word and creating the most empowering and historic event we can imagine.

NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL!

Massachusetts Jobs with Justice Solidarity School 2002

November 7-10, Sandwich, Mass.

In November, union and community activists will gather to share their experiences and build for the future. Don't miss it!

Plenary sessions on:

• "No More Business As Usual": New campaigns for corporate accountability 
• Thinking Global, Acting Local: Building solidarity with trade unionists in Colombia 
• Paying more, Getting Less:  Uniting caregivers and consumers for health care reform 
• Debate: "Which way forward for the labor movement?" 

Info: 617-524-8778 or visit http://www.massjwj.net

GLOBALIZATION: VIEWS FROM ECUADOR AND MASSACHUSETTS

Come hear

Edgar Alexis Ponce Bustillos
Ecuadoran human rights activist, National Spokesperson and Executive Director of Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (APDH) in Ecuador, and expert on the effects of the IMF, World Bank, and "structural adjustment" policies

and

Alex Brown
Somerville resident, and labor activist with IUE/CWA Local 201, the GE workers union in Lynn

talk about the effects of globalization at home and abroad.

Where: College Avenue United Methodist Church at 14 Chapel Street, on the corner of College Avenue and Chapel Sreet in Somerville (5-minute walk from the Red Line at Davis Square).

When: Monday December 2, 7-9 pm.

Sponsored by: BankBusters and the Latin America Action Coalition (LAAC)

For more information, call 617-755-0795, send e-mail to [email protected], or visit www.bankbusters.org.

This event is free, but donations are suggested.

WHAT IS FIDELITY HIDING?

FIDELITY IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST mutual fund firm and a top shareholder of many scandal-ridden companies. Fidelity refuses to tell investors how it voted working families' immense stock holdings. 

Did Fidelity use our voting power to prop up entrenched boards of directors, overpaid corporate executives and conflicted audit committees at troubled companies like: Enron, Kmart, Tyco, Halliburton, Lucent & WorldCom?

The SEC is considering new regulations to require mutual fund companies to come clean and disclose how they vote our shares. And Fidelity is trying to block this reform.

But Labor and Community are prepared to take them on. On December 4, 2002, in more than 20 cities around the country, union and community members will be knocking on the doors of Fidelity to tell them:

It's Our Money!
Stop fighting corporate reform.
Support accountability and mutual fund disclosure.
No More Business as Usual! 

Join MA AFL-CIO President Bob Haynes and other labor and community leaders as they deliver our message to the CEO of Fidelity in Boston.

Wednesday, December 4 12:00-1:00PM
We will meet at the State St. MBTA station at the corner of Devonshire and State and then walk down to the headquarters of Fidelity at 82 Devonshire St. Boston.

Visit www.aflcio.org/fidelitydisclose for a report on how Fidelity shareholder votes could have made a difference.

The AFL-CIO has no direct labor dispute with Fidelity. We are not asking anyone to cease performing any services for or to cease handling any products or materials of Fidelity or any other employer.

For more information call the MA AFL-CIO at 617-227-8260.

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