Declaration Against the SPP Summit in New Orleans

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>Declaration Against the Security and Prosperity
>Partnership (SPP) Summit in
>New Orleans.
>
>We, the participants of the Second Continental
>Conference Against Free Trade and Privatizations,
>stand opposed to the Security and Prosperity
>Partnership (SPP) Conference of the Americas being
>convened by US President George W. Bush in New
>Orleans, Louisiana, 2008 April 21st and 22nd.
>
>This meeting is a heinous crime against the peoples of
>North America, but particularly against the
>dispossessed and displaced peoples of New Orleans and
>the Gulf Coast. Calling this meeting in the city of
>New Orleans, which remains largely unoccupied more and
>30 months after Hurricane Katrina and where more than
>half of its historic African American majority remains
>displaced, only highlights the true intentions of this
>undemocratic initiative and the neo-liberal agenda it
>seeks to propagate.
>
>In the case of New Orleans, this neo-liberal agenda
>advances the ethnic cleansing of the cities African
>American population as a means to eliminate a
>strategic base of "Black Power" resistant to the
>program of privatizations and retrenchments needed to
>maximize profits for transnational corporations.
>
>In the case of North America as a whole, the SPP seeks
>to eliminate the national sovereignty of Mexico and
>Canada in the name of US national security and plunder
>their natural resources (oil, gas, water, etc.) for US
>consumption and the profit maximization of
>transnational corporations.
>
>We, the participants of the Second Continental
>Conference Against Free Trade and Privatizations,
>stand in active solidarity with the People's Summit
>being organized by the democratic forces of resistance
>in New Orleans and throughout North America to counter
>the neo-liberal program of state privatization and
>working class dispossession being advanced by treaties
>like the SPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, and other Free Trade
>Agreements.
>
>We, the participants of the Second Continental
>Conference Against Free Trade and Privatizations,
>support the conclusions of the International Tribunal
>on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, held in New Orleans
>August 29th September 2nd, 2007 and demand the right
>of return for all displaced people from New Orleans
>and the Gulf Coast, the recognition of internally
>displaced person (IDP) status for the displaced
>people, reparations for all those displaced and a
>massive publicly funded reconstruction program,
>beginning with the restoration of all public housing
>for the residents of New Orleans.
>
>We, the participants of the Second Continental
>Conference Against Free Trade and Privatizations, call
>for the unity of the peoples of the Americas for
>self-determination, national sovereignty, and human
>rights against reactionary privatizations, free trade
>agreements, and corporate driven dictatorships. The
>people united will never be defeated!
>
>Adopted Sunday, 6 April, 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico
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[PDJane]

1. Absolutely right...............

Another step to fascism, and not just in the US.