[Imc-newsroom] money information (again)

[alca-nunca]

sorry if you´re recieved this before, we´ve been having some problems with 
email and want to make sure everyone has this important information. 
peace, 
anna and claire
for the confeunassc

                       URGENT REQUEST FROM QUITO ECUADOR!

For the next month Ecuador´s strongest Campesino organization, the CONFEUNASSC-
CNC will be launching a campaign of  teachins which will reach campesino 
communities through out Ecuador in final preparation for the mobilization 
against the FTAA on October 31st.  Their strategy is to conduct teachins about 
the effects of the FTAA on campesino communities in even the most remote 
regions of Ecuador in order to mobilize thousands of farmers to travel to Quito 
and shut down the minesterial meetings.  Unlike most NGO`s who are planning an 
alternative forum for the day of the event and other organizations who have 
planned a half day march,  the CONFEUNASSC will prepare and eduacate before 
hand in order to not only show up at the capital, but to show up and remain in 
the streets with conviction until the economic representatives are forced to 
return home.                                                       

The CONFEUNASSC believes that the mobilization has indeed already begun through 
the teachins that are now happening around the country.  In the past weekend, 
successful teachins were held in the towns of Cayambe, Napo and the region of 
Cotopaxi.  Next weekend, 300 indigenous youth from the Amazon and the Sierra 
regions will gather to discuss the FTAA and make plans for the mobilization.  
Furthermore, as part of the strategy of popular eduation about the FTAA the 
many candidates for parliment from the CONFEUNASC have decided that they will  
focus their campaigns and public speeches on the effects of the FTAA on their 
indigenous and campesino constinuants.  
                            
Though the plans for these teachins have been made, the strength and number of 
both the teachins and the mobilization will depend heavily on the amount of 
recourses that come in to the CONFEUNASSC from outside of Ecuador.  The 
oganization has speant virtually all it`s money on the teachins that have 
happened and will happen in the next week so much so that this past weekend 
their one phone line was cut off.  They are now asking that all organizations 
and individuals who would like to support the mobilization send money this week 
or as soon as possible in order to support the educational work that must 
continue and expand.  Monetary support from the North will greatly effect the 
ability of  the campesinos of Ecuador to succeed in stopping the summit and 
showing the world their strong opposition to the FTAA.                

In order to get money to the CONFEUASSC for the mobilization  checks should be 
made out to 
Public Citizen Foundation and sent to:
 
ATTN:  Timi Gerson
215 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
Washington, DC  20003
the memo line in checks should all say ´´FTAA-Ecuador 
Project´´                            

    (For those participating in ALCA NUNCA, the money you raise will be viewed 
as exactaly the same as all other money that comes into the office and will be 
used both for the teachins and mobilization on a national level).        

  If you are able to send resources please email and let the CONFEUNASSC know 
so that they can plan how many teachins they will be able to finance in the 
upcoming month.  In turn, we will be sure to keep you all updated about the 
specific plans and actions that are being taken towards the mobilization on the 
part of the CONFEUNASSC.  In addition, by October 20 the CONFEUNASSC will have 
ready an 8 page review with a focus on effects of neoliberal politics in Latin 
American countries and resistance against it. Also there will be information on 
how the movement in Ecuador has developed since the period of land reform and 
the beginning of privitizations in the 80`s. They hope this document will help 
raise awareness on an international level about the devastating effects that 
the FTAA would have and on the strong opposition throughout South America to 
corporate globalization.             
   
PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD AND FIND THE RESOURES WE NEED TO SUCESSFULLY 
STOP THE SUMMIT AND LET THE VOICES OF THE CAMPESINOS OF ECUADOR BE HEARD!      .