ANTI-GLOBALISTS ENDORSE DAY OF ACTION

Anti-Globalism Action Network (AGAN), an ad hoc collection of anti-globalism activists, has endorsed the call for a National Day of Action to protest the impending American attack on Iraq. Edmonton festivities commence at 6PM on Tuesday, August 6th at the Fringe Theater Grounds and Parking Lot of Orange Hall, at 104 Street and 83 Avenue. AGAN supporters have been actively distributing literature to alert the public to the roots of America's hostility toward Iraq and encourage the public to attend this important protest.

G8 ACTIVISTS DEFEND COOPERATION WITH WHITE NATIONALIST ORGANIZATION

The Anti-Globalism Action Network (AGAN), an ad hoc collection of anti-globalism activists, has taken the bold step of placing a link on its popular website to a controversial White Nationalist organization, the National Alliance.

The National Alliance was founded in 1974 by physics professor Dr. William Pierce, and since that time has spoken out incessantly against free trade, Zionist aggression, and other issues. The National Alliance recently made headlines across the United States for organizing mass demonstrations outside of the Embassy of Israel in Washington D.C., in support of Palestinian sovereignty.

While confirming its independence from the National Alliance, AGAN has decided to link to the National Alliance, and a selection of its materials, as a public service. This move by AGAN comes despite an epidemic of poison-pen newsgroup postings and poster desecrations aimed at AGAN by those who feel threatened by a broadening of the anti-globalism movement. In particular, the Alberta Activist Network (www.activist.ca) and Illinois-based One People's Project (www.onepeoplesproject.com) have levelled unfounded accusations against AGAN, following its provocative prediction of violence at this year's G8 summit.

"While most people in the anti-globalism movement undoubtedly have strong ideological differences with the National Alliance, their anti-globalism credentials are undeniable," says Anthony Phillips of AGAN. "Both our cooperation with the National Alliance, and its active participation in G8 demonstrations, does not preclude AGAN from cooperating with other divergent groups and individuals in the future. The anti-globalism movement will either broaden its base of support or it will wither away. AGAN will not allow its cooperation with any one organization to hinder its promotion of the former over the later."

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE WILL CONTINUE AT G8 SUMMIT

The Anti-Globalism Action Network (AGAN), an ad hoc collection of anti-globalism activists, predicts that the violence surrounding past G8 meetings will erupt once again in Kananaskis. The failure of Canada, and other Western countries, to address the root causes of the protests, rather than just their symptoms, ensures that the cycle of violent protest and repressive counter-measure will continue.

Western governments, whose true loyalties lie with the financial elite and special-interest groups, give lip service to democracy; yet respond with tear-gas and rubber bullets when the citizenry attempts to participate in the political process. The Canadian people would be much better served by a government that invests in environmental protection, national sovereignty, and measures to curb the growing power of both multi-national corporations and media oligarchies, than in a government which serves those whose ultimate aim is our subjugation on a global plantation.

Responsibility for the cycle of violence does not lie exclusively with Western governments; the media shares part of the blame. The lust by the media for sensational sound bytes from tear-gased teenagers is nothing less than fetishistic. The power of the media lies in part in its ability to masquerade as neutral and independent observers, when in fact the growing concentration of media control has resulted in the media becoming a vested member of the establishment.

The movement against globalization has assembled a broad coalition of often contradictory interests. The lack of hierarchical leadership with a clear political program has created a void that is being filled by more hierarchical elements.

"You'd be surprised at the diversity found within the Anti-globalism movement," says Anthony Phillips of AGAN. "The active participation of one organization in particular should send shock-waves throughout the establishment, as they break all the stereotypes of the anti-globalism movement being strictly a preserve of the traditional radical-left."

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