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Subject: FOLLOW UP ON SEATTLE, PROPOSAL FOR STRATEGY To save the planet, the strong momentum of the great historic victory in Seattle is released in fullfilling of a series of major objectives based on the decisive continuation and broadening of the coalition between workers, farmers and NGOs: 1. ROLL BACK THE CORPORATIONS' OVER-NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS FOR OPPRESSION (WTO, WB, IMF, UN SECURITY COUNCIL, NAFTA, EU, APEC, ETC.) The disclosure in Seattle of the crimes of these organisations continues by chasing the planners of the crimes against humanity and nature wherever they meet. To prevent the corporate mass media monopoly from belittling the demonstrations, we should beforehand categorize them as big or small demonstrations. And to make sure that the big demonstrations really get big, they should be organized many months ahead, as was the case in Seattle. Possibly a vote on the Internet should decide which events should be defined as small and which big, so that the backing of the respective events can be foreseen. After Seattle we may not even have to make threats in order to get the attention of the media, only a hint that we might have to provoke the police to become violent, if the media coverage is inadequate. You can never tell. Planned flexibility should be implied to cope with the expected upgradation of the precautionary measures from the other side. The principles of non-violent direct action as educated so systematically and practiced so bravely in Seattle, http://www.reclaiming.org/starhawk/wto.html should be the fundamental tactics in all cases. The preparatory organizing should include raise of funds for support of arrested protesters and victims of police brutality. 2. CREMATION OF THE VERY MOST CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS The historic Cremation Monsanto campaign http://www.igc.org/igc/en/hg/karnataka.html is carried through and extended to others on the Top 10 List of excessively criminal organisations. Just a few successful cremations will have a profound preventive effect on other corporations, cf. http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/corporations/ At the same time as we break down the present evil system, we build up the new A L T E R N A T I V E : 3. FUNDAMENTALLY NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM The present economy based on destruction of the natural resources is replaced by the economic system that builds up the natural resources: Global Resource Bank, belonging to all mankind, http://www.grb.net owns the natural resources outside national jurisdiction, i.e. primarily in the oceans. The electronic global GRB credit based on and measuring the value of these natural resources replaces the present destructive currencies based on the gross national product including all kinds of activities such as over-consumption, polution, transportation, destruction of nature, wars, etc. Furthermore, the mantenance fee paid to the bank on commercial accounts depend on the ecological footprints of the respective enterprises, http://www.grb.net 4. THE UNITED PEOPLES' TAKE OVER OF THE CORPORATIONS To the extent the above measures may not fullfill their objectives, the world parliament of the united peoples takes over the ownership of rest of the corporations, besides dealing with all less directly economic global problems, see http://www.unitedpeoples.net Ole Fjord Larsen, member of United Peoples ======================== __________________________________________________________________________ Free Global voice.fax.e-mail mailbox at http://www.hotvoice.com # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net