LOCAL Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Environment : Globalization : International Relations : Protest Activity
Smash The NAFTA Superhighway!!! Anti-I-69 Meeting, Wed. 1/9
Second meeting to discuss how we, as Chicagoans, can stop the expansion of I-69, the NAFTA superhighway.
What: A meeting of anti-authoritarians to discuss organizing solidarity with the fight against I-69.
When: Wednesday, January 9th, 7:00 PM
Where: Contact uachicago (AT) riseup (DOT) net for location.
Next year--which is coming up real fast now--construction begins on I-69 in Indiana. Hundreds of acres of wetland will be ruined, hundreds of farm families will be evicted from their homes and livelihoods, and tens of thousands more trucks and cars every day will spew fossil fuel emissions. The forces of global capitalism will be one step closer to realizing the dream of a hemisphere united for free trade at the expense of workers and watersheds. Next year, I-69 will creep one stretch closer to the nightmare of the "NAFTA Superhighway."
Unless we can stop it... and we can stop it! Indiana does not have the money to complete the project. Local opposition is strong. Next spring the barricades will start going up.
These are our neighbors, this is our regional economy, this is our bioregion. (HINT: This road-building project will be financed in large part by the lease of the Indiana Toll Road to MacQuarie-Cintra... the same multinational corporation that runs the Chicago SkyWay!)
Unconventional Action Chicago invites one and all to meet up Wednesday, 1/9 at 7 pm. We will discuss what we can do here in Chiago to help our fellows in Southwest Indiana. Our aim is to find ways to lend our aid to the contra-I-69 campaign, from local solidarity action to manning the barricades next year.
What: A meeting to discuss organizing solidarity with the fight against I-69.
When: Wednesday, January 9th, 7:00 PM
Where: Contact uachicago (AT) riseup (DOT) net for location.