Teach-In and Discussion on NAFTA and the FTAA


Tuesday August 5th
12pm until 8:30pm
Towson Public Library, Meeting Room One

Final Schedule

12:15pm SOA: Guns and Greed
Since its founding in 1946, the U.S. Army School of Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers in commando tactics, psychological warfare and military intelligence. Rarely seen footage in this documentary shows how the combat-ready SOA graduates use their guns to protect the greed of large corporations and world financial institutions. For more information: www.soaw.org/new/

1:00pm Trading Freedom: The Secret Life of the FTAA
This one's got it all - indigenous struggles, working-class resistance, women vs. the FTAA, Your Biotech Future, media activism, the NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, and the ever-popular "state repression of dissent" (coming soon to to a town near you). Footage from Akwesasne, Chiapas, Quebec City, Sao Paulo, and Tijuana, plus the combined efforts of over 100 videographers, photographers, free radio outlaws, writers, editors, techs, and rabble-rousers. For more information: tacticalmedia.mine.nu/

2:00pm Discussion with local activist and organizer Ryan Harvey on tactics and strategy for FTAA in Miami. Topics will include discussion of call for a "Padded Bloc" (www.organizepittsburgh.org/ftaa_padded_bloc_call.html) and benifits/downfalls of direct action.

2:45pm The Emperor's New Clothes
Filmed in Canada, the United States and Mexico over a three-year period, this provocative documentary immerses itself in the stark reality of life before, during and after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). For more information: www.socialdoc.net/isacsson/9MC1Cloth1.html

4:00pm Borderline Cases: Environmental Matters at The United States-Mexico Border
Borderline Cases investigates the environmental impact of the ! nearly 2,000 factories - maquiladoras - that have been built in Mexico at the US-Mexico border by multinational corporations from the US, Asia and Europe. In the early rush to globalization these factories, whose workers are paid a fraction of US wages, did not need to comply with costly environmental regulations. The result, according to one reporter, is that the border became "a 2,000 mile long open sewer, a vast toxic waste dump." For more information see: www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bc.html

**Video Showings will be followed up with 15-20 minute "round table" discussion on what was revealed in the video. Musical acts will also intermingle.

5:15pm Musical entertainment by Ryan Harvey, Matt Kelley, Melissa Marquardt and ot! hers.

6:00pm Panel Discussion with:

Jack Sinnigen (www.umbc.edu/mll/fac/jack.html) -- Professor of Modern Languages at UMBC and director of the USM Maryland in Mexico program since 1992.

Robert Scott -- International economist and co-director of the research department at the Economic Policy Institute (www.epinet.org). He will be speaking on the work he is doing to update the report entitled NAFTA at 7 (www.corpwatch.o! rg/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=661)

Timi Gerson -- FTAA Coordinator for Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch (www.publiccitizen.org/trade/)

*This event is brought to you by the Towson Anti-War Coalition in memory of Kevin Gosnell - Darkstar - McPyrate*

Location:
Towson Public Library
320 York Road
Towson 21204

Cost: FREE

Directions: 1:Take I-695 E towards TOWSON.
2:Take the MD-146/DULANEY VALLEY RD exit, exit number 27A B, towards TOWSON.
3:Merge onto DULANEY VALLEY RD.
4:Enter the roundabout and take 3rd exit onto YORK RD/MD-45 (south).
5:Make a left at the second traffic light CHESAPEAKE AVENUE.
6:Make a right turn into parking garage.
7:After parking, walk out of the parking garage at the second level onto CHESAPEAKE AVENUE.
8:Walk towards YORK ROAD.
9:Use the entrance at the corner of YORK ROAD & CHESAPEAKE AVENUE. MEETING ROOM IS ON THIS LEVEL

Contact: towsonantiwar-AT-hotmail.com
URL: www.towsonantiwar.org