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President Bush is enacting fast track passage for the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas' Treaty!
Why is this necessary? Treaties are important & must be reviewed, to make sure our sovergnity is not compromised!
The push for the NWO to eliminate humans & our rights is happening NOW !
Together we must WIN! Read the following message from ACT-UP!
This is all being done in secret trade talks!
Corporate greed utilizing the U.S. Government is killing people throughout the world!
ACT- UP & tell the U.S. Government KNOW MORE abuse!
The American economy is having difficulty for several reasons! Here are three!
Many of the manufacturing jobs are no longer here & Americans are competing with Mexicans for the manufacturing jobs. Who benefits from plant closings & then moving the plants to Mexico, where labor is 90% less expensive than in the U.S.? American laborers, wage earners are losing the middle class dream! Why are many U.S. retailers closing stores in the U.S. & reopening in Mexico? Follow the money!
Energy prices are up & profits for many of the manufacturers, distributors, & retail outlets are skyrocketing! The governments' revenue from the fraudulent excise taxes (we have no choice) is adding to the huge surplus! This causes inflation!
The debt based monetary system is out of control! Greenspan actually believes that too many Americans are wealthy & this is a problem. How in the world can one man have so much power over 300,000,000? The economy goes up & down as he controls interest rates! One week they are too high, the next week too low! Did the Wizard know what was best for Dorothy or did he fly away at the sign of trouble! All POWER Resides in the People & the people want answers! The people, do not include liars & thieves, a.k.a. attorneys at law (Esquires) because the attorneys all took a secret oath. Their loyalty is to the Lawyer's Guild in England! These men & women are traitors & must be dealt with, as the traitors that they are!
Hold your favorite politician's feet to freedom's flame! The politicians all of have agreed to abide by the Constitution for the United States of America & the Constitution can only be set aside by the War Powers Act! President Bush there is no Emergency & you are a traitor! Deal with it!
You will know your enemy by their actions or lack of action! IFF a mother or father will not stand & protect their children, who will? Have you noticed the air quality? It is not getting any better!
The Earth is in trouble! Look to the sky for answers. There you will see a haze over most metropolitan areas & occasionally, the chem-trails! After drinking fluorinated water laced with MTBE's, how long do you have before you die! Don't worry, be happy & drink Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi with Aspartame instead & you'll forget you're here!
All for one & one for all! We are all one! Whether you like it or not!
The following quotes will inspire you to TAKE ACTION NOW!
A nation can survive its fools & even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known & he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of govt. itself. For the traitor appears not traitor: He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims & he wears their face & their garments & he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly & unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. Cicero
Be Aware. Be Vigilant. Be Strong. Be Thankful. Be Prayerful. And avoid complaisancy at all costs. There are those, whose whole lives are dedicated to controlling your. The power - hungry are alive & well living in Washington D.C. as well as, in the ruling powers of other Nations, The U.N., the Corporations, the Financial Institutions, & yes, dare I say it, even in some of your Religious Hierarchies.
We are now involved in a war in this nation, a last-ditch struggle in which the other side contends only the king's men are allowed to use force or the threat of force to push there way in wherever they please, & that any peasant finally rendered so desperate as to employ the same kind of force routinely employed by our oppressors must surely be a 'lone madman' who 'snapped for no reason.' " Vin Suprynowicz
"If you won't fight when you victory is safe & sure. You may find yourself in a situation, when you have to fight when your victory is not sure. A worse situation may develop that you have to fight because it is better to fight & die than to live as a slave." Winston Churchill
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks & corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . .will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks & restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - The Debate Over the Recharter of The Bank Bill, (1809) Thomas Jefferson
"It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking & monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." Henry Ford
"A new public opinion must be created privately & unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, & the financial influences, which are at its disposal. This unnatural way of spreading idea must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man & relies solely onthe truth of the thoughts & the hearer's receptiveness for the truth." Albert Schweitzer
"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience & through rebellion." Oscar Wilde
"I think the true test of a genius is the ability to see the follies of one's own times. The ability to change one's own times is the true test of a leader. And the ability to do both is the true test of a visionary, who will never be elected." Marilyn vos Savant
"When going through life & traveling in the direction of your dreams, the best way to get ahead is the simplest way: take it one step at a time. Don't look over your shoulder; if you do, you'll feel the weight of all your yesterdays upon you. And don't worry about what lies ahead. By the time you get to the bend in the road or crest of the hill, you're going to be better & stronger than you ever were before. Just take a step at a time, one day at a time. And you'll find a rich, thankful life you never thought you could afford." Adrian Rodgers
In Germany they came 1st for the Communist, & I didn't speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, & I didn't speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, & I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics & I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for ME, & by that time no one was left to speak out. Martin Niemoeller
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains & slavery! Forbid it, Almighty G-d! I know not what course others may take; but as for ME, give ME liberty or give ME death!" Patrick Henry . "If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from US in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down & lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you & may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams
Wake up American before you find yourself at a wake for America!
More better later!
Katman
An Open Letter From ACT-UP Philadelphia
Posted: March 15, 2001
Contact: Jim Strub, 215-748-1275 jimstraub@hotmail.com
As you already know the governments of the Western Hemisphere & their corporate bosses are signing our names to the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas as we speak. This secret treaty's being made to destroy activist victories, privatize public services, & gut public safeguards; to roll back everything that 500 years of resistance has won. Our world & our lives are on the auction block. We understand this & that's why we're going to stop them. And people with AIDS & their allies are going to be on the front lines.
ACT-UP & the Health GAP (Global Access Project) Coalition have recently begun a campaign to defeat the FTAA. Our mission is to end the global AIDS pandemic, while the FTAA's mission is to make it worse. If it is put into effect, the FTAA will stop the growing movement by poor countries to manufacture cheap AIDS drugs, to treat the 30 million people with AIDS in the global south.
Unfortunately, because the FTAA threatens so many human rights on so many issues, many anti-globalization activists are not yet aware of the FTAA's grave implications for people with AIDS worldwide. So we'd like to provide all anti-FTAA activists, speakers, road shows & organizers with information about this issue --- in hopes that our movement's opposition to the FTAA will address it's massive threat to the 30 million people living & dying of AIDS right now in the 3rd world.
Put simply, the FTAA will kill people with AIDS in Brazil --- immediately. But far worse, it may push back the cause of treating AIDS in the third world by decades. And the misery & death this would cause are simply not measurable. Here's a brief summary of the situation.
The New York Times said it with chilling honesty this Sunday; someday we may look back on 2001 with nostalgia, for a time when AIDS was merely a global health catastrophe. AIDS is hitting the 3rd world in a way not seen since the Black Death killed a quarter of Europe. AIDS is not just a health crisis in some parts of the world; it's causing the wholesale collapse of Africa. More than 20% of people in many sub-Saharan African nations have the virus; for young people in South Africa, the rates are higher than 50%. 10, 20 years down the road, this disease will be having effects the likes of which we cannot even comprehend now. The world has never yet seen a continent virtually die because its people are poor. We will.
And that is why they're dying --- they're poor. AIDS is a manageable disease for people in the First World & the rich; triple-cocktail drug therapy has caused AIDS death rates to plummet in places where people have access to them. But the corporations that make those medications charge between 10,000 & 15,000 dollars a year per person. America can afford to make that available to its people. No third world nation can. This results in a situation where 95% of people with AIDS worldwide have no access to medicine, 30 million people are dying & it's getting worse.
But the pills actually cost pennies to produce. Any developing country could manufacture these drugs & treat AIDS. But pharmaceutical corporations --- the most profitable industry in the world --- depend on their ironclad patent laws to make billions of dollars in profit. And to protect their power & wealth, the corporations use the American government to force third world nations to not make generic versions of these drugs. It's a simple equation. Because the US forces global trade policies to protect corporate patent rights, 30 million poor people are dying.
So people in the global south & north have started fighting back. American AIDS advocates have brought pressure to bear on their government & rich corporations, while a small number of third world countries have begun defying the pharmaceutical industry & manufacturing the needed medications. These countries --- India, Thailand, Brazil, & South Africa --- have said a big, risky fuck you to the richest industry on earth; because they must. And Brazil is leading the way.
Brazilian civil society forced their government to implement a health plan that does what no other country does --- ensure every human being with AIDS that they will get the treatment they need. In just a few years their comprehensive program has cut AIDS deaths there in half, & caused infection numbers there to be a mere fraction of what analysts were predicting for 2001. A New York Times headline recently ran "The world's AIDS crisis is solvable" Look at Brazil.
Brazil has done more than just provided treatment for their people; they have started a move in the third world towards dealing with the AIDS crisis. And they have done it by ignoring corporations patents & placing human need over corporate greed. This scares the hell out of our greedy pharmaceutical corporations.
Brazil's system works. It is the system the world needs. And Brazil has offered to teach any 3rd world country how to set up their own generic systems. In May at a generic AIDS drug conference in Burkina Faso, they may begin doing that. The tide is turning towards life for 30 million infected poor people, & the corporations are desperate to stop it.
The pharmaceutical corporations are bringing massive pressure to bear on the Brazilian government. Today, February 1, their lackeys in the United States government are formally denouncing Brazil's free AIDS drug program at a WTO meeting in Geneva. And their plan to destroy Brazil's program is to create new, more powerful & pro-corporate intellectual property laws in the upcoming Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.
If the US succeeds in placing stronger, pro-corporate intellectual property laws in the FTAA (called TRIPS-plus), Brazil's generics system will be dealt a deathblow. The FTAA's corporate patent protection policies will force Brazil's generic drug program to stop manufacturing essential medications, extend corporate patent length & attack the generic drug system through the backdoor with a variety of crippling regulations. This spells disaster for people with AIDS in Brazil, but the larger picture is even more grim. The possibility of treating AIDS in the third world that Brazil offers will be gone --- & with it, a golden, practical opportunity for treating AIDS worldwide.
The FTAA has large-scale ramifications for 30 million people with AIDS in the 3rd world that are simply deadly. Lets name the problem: Rich corporations are using the FTAA to kill millions, to ensure their profits continue.
This will not stand. People with AIDS & their allies, from Brazil to the U.S., are fighting this agreement. And we will win. ACT-UP & AIDS advocates worldwide are resisting the FTAA, specifically on the grounds that TRIPS-plus intellectual property provisions are unacceptable & deadly.
In the light of this deadly threat, we hope this information will help folks raise the AIDS disaster issue as part of their FTAA activism; right now, the movement isn't talking much about the suffering & genocide corporate greed & globalization are causing through the AIDS crisis in the developing world. But the issues gotta be on the table. 30 million people living with AIDS in the global south have their lives on the line here.
We plan to be in the US Trade Representatives face, we plan to be in Quebec City, & we plan to be everywhere it takes to defeat this death sentence for people with AIDS in the global south. We invite everyone who fights globalization & corporate power, & everyone who places human need above corporate greed, to join our demand & work together to defeat the FTAA.
Were specifically hoping that all anti-globalization activists will put the AIDS issue among the forefront of our movement's opposition. 30 million people with AIDS in the third world should not be thought of a side issue or footnote. We've come too far for that. AIDS & the global south are central to the suffering globalization causes; so they need to be central to our resistance as well.
Please feel free to contact us, with questions, comments, or requests for more information. We have a movement again. Lets use it to defend our world & our lives from corporate power. Lets put AIDS on the agenda. Lets defeat the FTAA & everything else the corporations & their lackeys try to impose on us from above.
Silence is death. Resistance is life.
NO FTAA ! NO TRIPS-PLUS, EVER!
Sincerely,
ACT-UP Philadelphia
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