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Election Week of Creative Resistance: Don't just vote, get active!

People around the country are galvanized behind political activity at unforseen levels, but this work cannot be contingent solely on the results of the elections. So we're calling for a week of creative resistance surrounding election day, with Halloween parades, direct democracy open forums, anti-war rallies, culminating in counter-globalization resistance at the conference of an international conglomoration of bankers who are the real decision makers behind the people being elected on November 2nd.

So let's tear it up... Chicago style!
People around the country are galvanized behind political activity at unforseen levels, but this work cannot be contingent solely on the results of the elections. So we're calling for a week of creative resistance surrounding election day, with Halloween parades, direct democracy open forums, anti-war rallies, culminating in counter-globalization resistance at the conference of an international conglomoration of bankers who are the real decision makers behind the people being elected on November 2nd.

So let's tear it up... Chicago style!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

October 31: Capitalism Gives Me The Creeps!
On Halloween, we're preparing for an anarchist street theatre parade where ghosts ghouls and the undead are being relocated from Hell to the surface land where things are really heating up. Bring costumes, noisemakers, and a merry spirit.
2:30pm at Milwaukee / North / Damen off the Damen blue line stop
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November 2: Town hall democracy meetings
On election day, neighborhoods around Chicago and the suburbs are organizing open forums and town hall meetings to discuss direct democracy, the election results and where we go from here.

November 3: No matter who wins the elections, we oppose the war on Iraq!
Peace Pledge Chicago is planning a demonstration to demand the immediate to withdrawal of U.S. troops. No more war on the people of Iraq!
5pm at Federal Plaza - Adams and Dearborn

November 4-5: The bankers are coming, the bankers are coming!
Two days after the elections, no matter who wins, the real decision makers are coming to town. The International Bankers Association for Finance and Trade will be having their conference in Chicago to meet with members of congress and the Coalition Provisional Authority to discuss the USA PATRIOT Act, the occupation of Iraq, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, Central America Free Trade Agreement, and the World Trade Organization. Activists will take to the streets for two days of resistance, activities to be announced.
Intercontinental Hotel


Join this week of democracy and resistance, heed the call, banging on the system, we will win!

Next Meeting: Sunday October 10th @ 2pm at DePaul center 11th floor at 1 East Jackson (Jackson & State)

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