Publication date 2004 Topics miami, ftaa, globalization Publisher indymedia

In November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). FTAA threatens to devastate workers, the environment, and public services like health care, education, and water, and to destroy indigenous rights and cultural diversity across North, Central, and South America.



Thousands of union members, environmentalists, feminists, anarchists, students, farm workers, media activists, and human rights activists who gathered in Miami to struggle against the FTAA were brutally attacked with rubber bullets, pepper spray, electric guns and shock batons, embedded reporters and information warfare, all coordinated by the new United States Department of Homeland Security.



Against Capitals model of paramilitary oppression, information warfare, and corporate rule, we offered models of grassroots resistance, creative action and solidarity.

Credits

edited and produced by the FTAA Miami Video Working Group: Adams Wood, Ali Tonak, @my, Brandon Jourdan, Erin Siegal, Francine Cavanaugh, Ioka Jessica Lawrence, J.D. Kat, Kevin Hart, Kevin Brown, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Sharpie, Wes Brain, Michael Cardenas, Michael Green, Zulah,

Segments

FTAA intro - the Miami Model

Miami context

Root Cause Peoples March

Buildup in miami

Root Cause arrives in Miami

Free Carnival Area of the Americas

Morning action

Ninja man

Labor rally

What about police violence?

InfoWar

Jail Solidarity

False Dichotomies

The Ground under Overtown

Credit Sequence

Contact Information ftaaimc.org ftaa-miami-video@lists.indypgh.org

Addeddate 2004-07-13 20:02:21 Collectionid miamimodel Color color Director ftaa miami IMC video Identifier miamimodel Numeric_id 9051 Proddate 2004 Run time 91 min. Sound sound Type MovingImage