The Save Our Civil Liberties Campaign (www.saveourcivilliberties.org) is a national and international campaign initiated by local and national global justice, labor, anti-war, animal welfare, environmental and community groups and networks to respond to the violations of our civil liberties and human rights in Miami. The campaign is a unifying framework to increase cooperation and weave together the many groups and individuals working to save and expand our human rights and civil liberties.

This campaign pursues goals of demilitarizing police and our communities and of decriminalizing dissent--ending the violation of basic democratic rights-free speech, the right to assemble and the right to organize. Communities of color and immigrants live daily with police violence which is becoming even more brutal and expanding even further in order to promote and secure corporate globalization.

STOP THE FTAA! 7AM, Thursday, Nov. 20
Converge at Government Center Park, NW 1st Street and 2nd Ave.
Brief rally at the park and then mass march to the fence.
Unite with people from all walks of life to take creative, non-violent direct actions to STOP THE FTAA! We will will plant the seeds of earth-based democracy, grassroots resistance and hope! A sane, sustainable, real future!

Bring food, water, puppets and solidarity in your hearts. We will reclaim the space at the fence and engage in autonomous actions of creativity and beauty! We will manifest a world that values humanity, sustainability, creativity, and real democracy! We will stand in solidarity with all of our allies in the permitted march, and the people living in Miami, the poorest city in the nation. [maps]

SPOKESCOUNCIL MEETINGS Nightly starting Sunday Nov.16, at 8pm, to ground and unify our energies, resolve, and resistance! Locations announced at the convergence space.

ON THE GROUND
Legal Hotline #: 305-400-6445
Housing #: 415-710-1253
Medical #: 305-905-1222
Convergence Space#: 305-576-9774
Media Hotline#: 786-380-7957
indymedia #: 305-576-9773

Stay safe. Know these numbers. We are winning!

Plug into the independent media matrix for FTAA Miami! Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and thousands of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Visit the new Indymedia FTAA site for up-to-the-minute reporting on the FTAA mobilization.

We, The Stop the War Coalition in London, England, The Mobilization to Stop the FTAA in Miami, Florida (U.S.) and the School of the Americas Watch Movement in Columbus, Georgia (U.S.), are mobilizing tens of thousands of people this week in the United Kingdom and the United States to hold our governments accountable. Our struggles are interconnected and we organize in solidarity with each other.

We recognize our governments’ foreign policies are not bringing security to the world any more than their economic policies are bringing prosperity.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq, the training of soldiers in counterinsurgency at the School of the Americas, and the expansion of so-called “free-trade” agreements like the Free Trade Area of the Americas, are strategies in the building of an empire based on greed, violence and power. These policies breed resentment.

Democracy will never come about through military invasion. “Free trade” does not equal democracy; in fact the two are usually at odds. And our governments’ claims of “spreading democracy” throughout the world rings especially hollow when they have failed to even listen to the democratic input of their own citizenry.

The economic empire-building agenda behind the FTAA goes hand-in-hand with military repression across the hemisphere. Make the connections and continue the struggle after Miami: We strongly encourage everyone participating in the Miami mobilization to travel to Ft. Benning, GA, to help shut down the School of the Americas on November 22–23. This U.S. military combat training school for Latin American soldiers provides the military muscle to enforce unpopular policies of corporate globalization throughout the hemisphere and has been linked to some of Latin America’s worst human rights abuses. For more information, see School of the Americas Watch and the Latin American Solidarity Coalition.