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Intro
1.San Diego
In San Diego, CA people gathered in solidarity with those in Quebec City and in protest for a world without borders or corporate rule. Demonstrations began in the streets and moved to the US/Mexico border. These are sounds from the events of that day.
2.Portland
While protesters pulled down the wall of corporatization Quebec city, residents in Portland Oregon held their own day of solidarity actions. After a spirited solidarity rally in Pioneer Square, activists targeted Diamond Parking, demanding that the company pay its workers a living wage, and improve working conditions. Union members from three different locals spoke in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Quebec and offered their support in local labor struggles. During the solidarity rally, SEIU organizer Maria Damaris Silva had a message to the mainstream media covering the Portland Solidarity march… Portland's legendary Radical Cheerleaders spoke out after the anti-FTAA Rally at Pioneer Square.
- IWW member Bill Bradley lays it on the line about why 1000 people turned up in Pioneer Square to protest the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.
3.Labor
Labor made a strong showing against the FTAA both in Canada and across the Americas. With the Rapid expansion of capitalist free trade econimics, workers around the world are rising up in the face of low wages, poor working conditions and long hours. Ronnie Watson is an American Steelworker that came to Canada to Protest the Proposed FTAA. He was Interviewed by Nick Cooper at the Torchlight vigil on the streets of Quebec.
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Kevin from the NYC IMC spoke with a canadian worker on the streets of quebec city.
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Wendy Mendez, a political refugee from Guatemala now living in Canada, speaks with CMAQ reporter Andrew Kennis about her country's violent past and its future under the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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With a population of some 156,000, the tiny Carribean nation of Saint Lucia is poised to become an "equal" trading partner with the United States and other American nations. Under the propsed Free Trade Area of the Americas, huge multinational corporations investing in Saint Lucia would enjoy "national treatment" under law. Even many "small" multinationals have annual revenues which dwarf the GDP of Saint Lucia, which in 1999 measured at $707 million US. Saint Lucian labor leader Henry Charles spoke at the Second Peoples' Summit of the Americas in Quebec City.
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This Maquiladora Organizer spoke at a rally on the Mexican side of the border in Tiawana on the 21st.
4.Doyle on Saturday Wrap up
On Saturday April 21st, The Vermont IMC audio team’s Rise UP radio spoke with Doyle, a Vermonter in Quebec. Here is Doyle describing her day and the significance of the anti-FTAA demonstrations.
6.Celia Alario Commentary
Celia Alario is an independent journalist who worked with the Center for Media Alternatives of Quebec. She was lucky enough to have gained access to the Summit Press Center, and brings us a window into what corporate media experienced while trying to cover the Events.
7.What kind of a world they wanted to live in?
"In Quebec City Jade Paget-Seekins spoke to a number of people on the streets and asked them what kind of a world they wanted to live in, what are you fighting for?" - Jade
8.White Movement
We spoke with Ken Gould, professor of Sociology at St lawrence university. Here he desribes the reasons for the mostly white make up of the anti-corporate globaliztion movement and what steps can be taken to create a more diverse resistence.
9.Steps in the non-violent revolution
"Jade Paget-Seekins spoke with Mike Gagne of SalAMI in Quebec City about civil disobedience and non-violent revolution."
10.Maude Barlow
In one of the final events of the peoples summit, Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians spoke to a spirited crowd of about 3000. In addition to outlining the negative effects of trade liberalization, Barlow referred to a new level of solidarity that was apparent on the streets of Quebec. She echoed what others had said over the weekend by saying that all ways of expressing solidarity with the movement are good and that the fight against trade liberalization is strong and united.
11. Outro
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