International Campaign news proposed funding cuts and restrictions on welfare for single IMF World Bank WTO attacking mothers; support for abortion Enough unemployment, the Lille meeting rights and reproductive freedom; will seek to boost the image of opposition to racism; support for the policies and politicians who lesbian, gay and bisexual rights; have and support for efforts to end Surrounding violence against women. zones of northern France and southern Belgium into disaster they are. alliances for affirmative action, for A four-page fortnightly bulletin has been women's rights, and against established to circulate information in the run up to the Counter-Summit in Lyon. (predominantly white) women's
Preparations for the G7 counter- Plantinstraat 29, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium. For your movements of African-Americans movement and the Civil Rights summit were discussed in Paris © +32.2/523 4023, fax 522 6127 and other peoples of color. The on 16-18 February. Over 200 March should help cement the people attended the Friday night Resistant alliance between N.O.W. (the session, which was followed by country's largest women's rights two days of workshops defining organization), organized labor, the content and the organisation and the lesbian/gay rights of events planned to coincide with the meeting of representatives of the seven leading imperialist This is a year-long project The demonstration has already powers in Lyon, France on 21-23 organized by a group of artists received broad endorsement
June 1996. and activists working with from groups including the
Vermont Chiapas Action Network Rainbow Coalition, American
Time pressure increased tension and the Vermont 50 Years Is Indian Movement (AIM), and the in a number of workshops, but Enough Coalition National Welfare Rights Union.
common desire to organise there is no real decline in the A series of 10 posters will be The march is backed by the California wing of the National another successful "Other voices commissioned, focusing on the of the planet" gathering. As well Zapatista response to ongoing of Colored People (NAACP), and Association for the Advancement as events organised by anti-debt economic oppression, politica trade unions in several states
Counter-Summit will welcome the and third-world organisations. this Mexico. Design proposals should exclusion, and genocide in affiliated to the country's AL-CIO be submitted by 1 April 1996.
convergence of marches for jobs feminist, abortion rights and organised by the AC! group The posters will examine the
A dress rehearsal for the counter- implications and inspirations of summit will be held in Lille, the Zapatista rebellion, and stress Large, multi-racial organizing
France on 30-31 March, when the necessity of such resistance meetings have been held in San
G7 employment and finance in light of economic globalization, Francisco, where representatives ministers meet to finalise the conservative political climates, student groups and agenda for their June meeting. and bogus notions of democratic people of color organizations
As our Paris meeting agreed, the participation. Once printed, the absolute cynicism of the G7 posters will be distributed through representatives to discuss plans necessitates an absolutely activist organizations, community resolute response Their groups, "This March will make clear that preparatory documents admit that bookstores and galleries, in time the feminist agenda is really Lille is a massive public relations for the May 5th celebrations. about a return to community exercise: "The "Lille Conference" For artists' guidelines and any other N.O.W. President is another event in the long-term information, contact: David Thorne, Box Patricia Ireland recently wrote in a project to re-inject confidence and 8853, e-mail: baseline@igc.apc.org 153b, Glover, VT 05839 USA, (802) 525- hundreds of hope into a public opinion which organizations to endorse the has progressively succumbed to March. "A return to] the policies discouragement, and fears for Fight the and politics that favor the needs their futures. We must reinforce of people over the profits of the their capacity to adapt to change corporations and the comforts of [!!]. The conference must seek to Right a few. People will understand that re-establish the credibility of the right-wing politics of division policies aimed at reducing and diversion serve only to shortunemployment and poverty, by In response to attacks on change our country and our demonstrating affirmative action, particularly in that the improvement of the employment situation is at the heart of G7 strategy today." Rather than structural
Lille and made the
'post-industrial' the
COCAD, copy contact
Strains confederation, lesbian/gay rights groups.
and independent values", letter asking future".
(415) 436-9390
Alternatives and the Centre intemational de solidarite ouvriere
(CISO) is organizing in Montreal,
Speakers will include Pedro
Ross, general secretary of the
Central de Trabajadores de
Cuba, Xavier Gorostiaga, director of Envio (Nicaragua), Francois
Tricontinental Centre and Louise
Harel, Quebec Minister of
Cultural Communities and
Contact: Alternatives, 3680, rue Jeanne-
Mance, bur. 440, Montreal, Quebec, H2X
2K5, tel (514) 982-6606, fax: (514) 982
6122, e-mail: altemat@web.apc.org
Sponsors include CTC-CLC, FTQ, CSN,
CEQ, FIIQ, SFPQ), the Cuban CTC trade union, and the United Church of Canada.
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The anti-unemployment movement AC! (Together against
Unemployment) held a weekend conference on the 32 hour week:
a step towards ending unemployment" in Paris on 20-21
January. Discussion centred on the mass public sector mobilisation at the end of last year, particularly the impact of unemployment and job insecurity on the thinking and organising of the workers' movement. Many participants in the discussion believe that there is a new trend of organising among workers with precarious contractual status, and among those on workfare, 'reinsertion' and 'training schemes. This will prove increasingly important, since a growing number of public sector and governmental entities are trying to replace full-time workers with these cheap, disposable substitute contracts. AC! militants, who are evenly divided between the unemployed and workers, will organise 'caravans against unemployment, which will leave localities around France after local May 1st demonstrations, and converge on Lyon during the counter summit organised to protest the G7 summit organised there on 21-23 June. [JB] * International Viewpoint n° 275 33