Molly Hankwitz on Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:44:01 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] NYC Newspapers Smear Activists Ahead of WEF Protests |
Regarding the NY mainstream presses allegations towards protesters - we need to add the additional media-bias that the NY Press has which is its tendency to look down its own navel, only reviewing or commenting on the globalisation protests which have taken place in the US and ignoring the legitimacy of the issues about which these protests revolve, especially for all the other countries which are significantly effected by globalisation investment practices foisted upon them by heavily financed and supported US institutions. The NY press should take a serious look at why it fails to cover with any "deep thinking" the degree to which the richest countries in the world squeeze the smaller countries. The NY press should also stop having such an infantile relationship to the rest of the globe as if protests in America somehow bear some unparalleled significance on the rest of the world. The War on Terror is percieved as a bizarre form of rhetorical and physical domination of other peoples, who like the Nicaraguan's in Reagan's Era, are poor and unmilitaristic by comparison to the American war machine. Sure September 11 was an horrific attack and a terrible violence, but let's get the issues straight - globalisation practices terrorize thousands of people everyday - The New York mainstream press should quit analyzing First World protests which disturb the white picket fence and the tidiness of the backyard, and take a long hard look at what kinds of nasty economic policies they support with their smear campaigns! Some facts about anti-globalisation protests: >>N30 (seattle) was the *third* international day of action called through the PGA (peoples global action) network. (you can check out the pga website for more bg info - http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/) >>nor was it the largest in the line of PGA actions - that would be india during the first one (may 16, 1998). the reports i heard that the time put the numbers on the street in india at around 300,000 - 400,000 (accross several cities)....by far the largest number mobilised in any single country (line of the day from india "we have taken to the streets to declare the WTO our mortal enemy"). the first day of action comprosed several large mobilisations (india, bolivia, etc), and abut 24 'Reclaim the Streets' parties (for the RTS archive, check http://www.gn.apc.org/rts/global3.htm) there were several US actions on may 16, and also on J18 (the second day of action) - the rts website is a good one to check for the details (http://www.gn.apc.org/rts/) because the london RTS mob are part of the PGA (as is the brazilian landless peasents movement, the zapatistas, and the canadian postal workers union...who, btw, called the 2000 mayday international day of action through the pga network) --this information offered by australian activists and the PGA _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold