Begin forwarded message:
Protest International Bankers Conference as they discuss the Occupation
of Iraq & PATRIOT Act

November 4th 5:00pm

Intercontinental Hotel

505 N Michigan Ave.

On November 4th, at the Intercontinental Hotel, hundreds of the
world's top bankers will meet with major CEOs and heads of government
agencies to discuss international finance. They're conference is sub-
titled "The Pace Quickens." Among the focuses of the first of their
two day agenda are the USA PATRIOT Act and how it effects the privacy
of bank customers, and the "War of Terror" and how it effects ports.
At 3:45pm, the delegates will begin the agenda item entitled "Trade
Bank of Iraq & Coalition Provisional Authority Update." Several of
the major Western banks that are members of BAFT joined together to
form and profit off of the creation of the Trade Bank of Iraq.

In solidarity with the Election Week of Resistance, including the
election day events, other BAFT actions, and Peace Pledge anti-war
protest, we call for all Chicagoans to hit the streets in front of
the Intercontinental Hotel by 5:00pm for a rally against the
financiers of Empire. On November 2nd, we will have the chance to
choose between two pro-war candidates, but on November 4th our city
will receive a city from the real policy-makers and profiteers.

Banks finance and direct austerity measures enforced by international
monetary institutions like the IMF and World Bank, and it is private
banks that finance and direct death squads and state militaries in
the massacres and repression of civilians from Iraq to Afghanistan,
from Palestine to Haiti, from the Philippines to Colombia. Join us to
oppose the corporations that run our country and the greed that is
destorying the world.

To endorse or find out more information, e-mail us at
nobaft@riseup.net

Endorsers: Chicagoland Anarchist Network, Chicago Coalition Against
War & Racism, Education Not Empire Student Network, Pilsen & DePaul
Food Not Bombs, Students for Social Justice, DePaul Students Against
the War, Midwest Unrest, La Voz de Los de Abajo, Nicaragua Solidarity
Committee

See also:
http://www.chicagonewyork.net/dontjustvote
http://www.beyondvoting.org

———————————————————————-

OUR WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE!

November 5th, 6am to 2pm

Outside the Intercontinental Hotel

505 N Michigan

On November 5th, the annual Bankers Association for Finance & Trade
conference "The Pace Quickens" will enter its second day, and their
agenda focuses on international free trade issues, and how banks and
other corporations can invade countries to assert their economic
domination. However, it is clear to us that their so-called "free
trade" is a code-word for a war on democracy, people, and the planet.

Meanwhile, outside we will reclaim common space in "Our World is Not
for Sale," a festival of free food, free music, free literature, free
clothes, free skills, and freedom. This will be a community that
values both cultural and ecological diversity, in which all are truly
free to give, receive, and create on their own terms, in which people
can fulfill their needs by working together, in the midst Chicago's
most concentrated area of consumerism known as the Magnificant Mile!

This is a call to all of you who support our movements and
mobilizations from the bottom-up and the inside-out: Food Not Bombs,
medics and care-givers, legal teams, independent media, living
collectives, direct-democracy organizers, alternative energy and
transportation visionaries, and affinity groups, families,
individuals and organizations who are working towards solidarity and
community-based alternatives.

Our World is Not for Sale will only be as great as you make it. We
will provide the framework; you supply the material. Skill-shares,
free-schools and planned discussions are great ways to get involved.
Instead of just perusing goods, we can spend the day together eating
free food, making patches, repairing bikes, learning how to silk-
screen, discussing theory, learning languages, sewing clothes,
painting banners, cutting hair, smashing pinatas, and dreaming up
even more things to throw together! The only stipulation is that
there is no buying, selling, or promoting involved