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COMMUNISTS PLAN APRIL 15 "DAY OF ACTION"
(This article is from the April 1-15/2000 issue of People's Voice, Canada's leading communist newspaper. Articles can be reprinted free if the source is credited. Subscription rates in Canada: $25/year, or $12 low income rate; for U.S. readers - $25 US per year; other overseas readers - $25 US or $35 CDN per year. Send to: People's Voice, 706 Clark Drive, Vancouver, Canada, V5L 3J1.)
COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERS and supporters will take to the streets across Canada on Saturday, April 15, picketing a wide range of corporate targets, and popularizing the CPC's call for a "People's Alternative."
The actions are part of the second phase of a CPC campaign against corporate globalization, following up on events held last November around the Seattle WTO summit and the meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas held in Toronto.
For both of those events, Communists across Canada worked with thousands of other activists to help build massive protests. The "Battle in Seattle" had a major impact on the WTO Summit, which collapsed in disarray after many member states refused to submit to pressures from the USA over new international trade and investment rules.
Once again this spring, CPC members and clubs are working to build resistance to the corporate assault, including actions against the closed-door meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank starting April 17 in Washington, DC, and the June 4-6 General Assembly of the Organization of American States taking place in Windsor, Ontario.
Meeting in Toronto last month, the CPC Central Committee updated its planning for this campaign. The April 15 pickets will focus on the "worst examples of corporate greed, takeovers and sellouts" that threaten Canadian sovereignty, and which have resulted in massive poverty, homelessness, cuts to social programs, the increase in militarism, and attacks on democracy.
In Vancouver, for example, party clubs from across the Lower Mainland will protest outside the Granville Street offices of Pacific Press, which publishes both local daily newspapers, the Vancouver Sun and The Province, part of Conrad Black's media empire. The huge profits from Pacific Press help subsidize Black's far-right National Post and his attempt to destroy unions at the Calgary Herald.
The April 15 Day of Action will also help publicize May Day events being organized across the country by the labour movement and its allies.
For more information on the April 15 CPc activities, and other protests against the IMF/World Bank meetings and the OAS General Assembly, contact the central office of the Communist Party of Canada, ph. 416-469-2446, email <pvoice@web.net>.
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