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Tuesday, August 26, 2003
The Cost of Free Trade
Come to a free event that will use film, discussion and music to nurture resistance against the new form of colonization known as free trade.
"Surplus" – a new film by an Italian-Swedish anarchist that examines the role of technology and consumerism in an expanding global society – will be used to initiate discussion on anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian perspectives in the global justice movement, focusing on strategies for the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) meeting planned for Miami this fall. Anarchist organizers from Florida and North Carolina will relay information about what promises to be Miami's largest demonstration of recent times.
Radical folk music will follow the discussion, so bring a guitar if you'd like to share a song. And please bring a donation if you can spare the cash. It all happens on Wednesday, Aug. 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Brian MacKenzie Infoshop in the Flemming Center, 1426 Ninth St. NW. For more information, call 828/472-1865, or send an e-mail here.
DC Metro Action is published by Michael Schlesinger, a 32-year veteran of electoral and issue organizing who is committed to social justice and to increasing participation in the political process.
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