The Quebec Summit and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, April 2001

 

At the protest march, Saturday April 21, 2001

At the fence – just before and just after police launched a clearing operation, using explosives and tear gas. During this action, a couple of protesters were beaten by police and arrested.

Discussion, papers, position on the FTAA

• Commentary by Ernie Schibli.

  "The fence, that notorious fence, the focus of so much attention, was no ordinary fence. It was another one of these walls, designed to protect the powerful from the excluded. That fence rapidly became the symbol of much that is wrong with today's world."

• The Social Justice Committee position on the FTAA negotiations.

  SJC demands that the agreements under negotiation be abandoned, not modified or reformed.

• Why oppose the FTAA?

  Here are some reasons.
• "Taking care of business."

  Trade deals make corporations equal to government

  Article on the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), appeared in The Gazette (Montreal) 19 February 2001.

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The Summit of the Americas media office denied press accreditation to our Upstream Journal editor, stating that access is for "recognized news agencies" only. The SJC appealed the decision, since editor Derek MacCuish has been issued press credentials for several meetings on international finance in the past – G–7, G–20, IMF and World Bank – and reports on financial issues regularly in other publications. The appeal was ignored.