The target date for a final agreement is 2005, though it may come sooner. Activists know they cannot afford to wait until another disastrous trade deal is signed, sealed, and delivered, so people are mobilizing all over the hemisphere to educate and stage solidarity actions in the month of April with those in Buenos Aires and Qu bec City. The movement against corporate-capitalist globalization is concentrating its energies against the FTAA, and dozens of campaigns have sprung up in the past couple months. Teach-Ins are being planned, coalitions are forming, road shows are traversing the country, and we are filling our ranks with creativity and collective resistance. Things are building at all levels, locally, nationally and hemisphere-wide and across the spectrum of political orientation.
Several efforts are worthy of mention.
In the United States, the action networks that came together in the past year against the WTO and the IMF and World Bank are mobilizing masses of people. Several border actions are being organized, on both sides of the border. Activists in Kingston, Ontario are organizing a border caravan to ensure safe crossing for U.S.-based activists on their way to Qu bec. Huge border actions are planned for Buffalo, NY, and elsewhere in the Northeast. They will also be staging an April 20 action at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.