OUR WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE!
November 5th, 6am to 2pm
Outside the Intercontinental Hotel
505 N Michigan

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On November 5th, the annual Bankers Association for Finance & Trade conference "The Pace Quickens" will enter its second day, and their agenda focuses on international free trade issues, and how banks and other corporations can invade countries to assert their economic domination. However, it is clear to us that their so-called "free trade" is a code-word for a war on democracy, people, and the planet.

Meanwhile, outside we will reclaim common space in “Our World is Not for Sale,” a festival of free food, free music, free literature, free clothes, free skills, and freedom. This will be a community that values both cultural and ecological diversity, in which all are truly free to give, receive, and create on their own terms, in which people can fulfill their needs by working together, in the midst Chicago’s most concentrated area of consumerism known as the Magnificant Mile!

This is a call to all of you who support our movements and mobilizations from the bottom-up and the inside-out: Food Not Bombs, medics and care-givers, legal teams, independent media, living collectives, direct-democracy organizers, alternative energy and transportation visionaries, and affinity groups, families, individuals and organizations who are working towards solidarity and community-based alternatives.

Our World is Not for Sale will only be as great as you make it. We will provide the framework; you supply the material. Skill-shares, free-schools and planned discussions are great ways to get involved. Instead of just perusing goods, we can spend the day together eating free food, making patches, repairing bikes, learning how to silk-screen, discussing theory, learning languages, sewing clothes, painting banners, cutting hair, smashing piñatas, and dreaming up even more things to throw together! The only stipulation is that there is no buying, selling, or promoting involved—in this market, everything is strictly free!

If you have a skill to share, stuff to give away, or a topic to discuss, plan on bringing your own table or blanket and coming and going as you please, and if you want contact us so we can put your session on a list of events,discussions, skill-shares, and free-schools, just e-mail nobaft (at) riseup.net
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Endorsers: Chicagoland Anarchist Network, Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism, Education Not Empire Student Network, Pilsen & DePaul Food Not Bombs, Students for Social Justice, DePaul Students Against the War, Midwest Unrest, La Voz de Los de Abajo, Nicaragua Solidarity Committee