No to U.S.-South Korea FTA - Sun. June 4 Washington DC

No to U.S.-South Korea FTA - Sun. June 4 Washington DC
Down with the U.S.-South Korea FTA

JUNE 4 - 9, 2006
Week of Protests
Washington, D.C.

SUNDAY 3PM , JUNE 4
MASS Action in D.C.

Edward R. Murrow Park -18th & H St. NW

For more information, call (718) 335-0419

The U.S. and South Korean governments will begin FTA negotiations on June 5, 2006.

JOIN PEASANT, LABOR AND COMMUNITY LEADERS FROM SOUTH KOREA TO PROTEST THE TRADE TALKS AND NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION.

THE STRUGGLE AGAINT THE U.S.-S.K. FTA IS A KEY STRUGGLE IN THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM

U.S.-based organizations from a wide range of sectors have endorsed and will be sending delegates to D.C.

According to former U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, "An FTA with South Korea would be the largest for the United States since NAFTA with
Canada and Mexico."

The U.S.-South Korea FTA, if ratified, will have devastating results. It will -

Allow the U.S. to dump cheap imports on the Korean people. Unable to compete, 3.5 million peasants stand to lose their livelihoods.

Get rid of worker protections. Practically overnight 15 million workers will become a dispensable and highly exploitable contingent labor force.

Create more migrant workers, forced to leave their homes and face discrimination in other countries.

Destroy the cultural fabric of South Korea by controlling culture through the market in which potential for profit overtakes the value of human relationships and artistic expression.

MOBILIZE AND ORGANIZE TO RESIST THE FTA AND NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION (MORFNG)*

Endorsing Organizations:

1 Addicted to War
2 All African Peoples Revolutionary Party-LA Chapter
3 Audre Lorde Project
4 A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
5 Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle
6 American Friends Service Committee, Oakland, CA
7 Anakbayan LA
8 Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers
9 BAYAN USA LA
10 BAYAN USA
11 Boliverian Circle of L.A.
12 Boston Korea Friendship Association
13 CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
14 Center for Constitutional Rights
15 Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation
16 Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco
17 CISPES-LA Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
18 Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (Chirla)
19 Colombia Action Network
20 Community Organizing Collective (PA)
21 Congress for Korean Reunification
22 Corean Action Network for Unification
23 Desis Rising Up and Moving
24 Domestic Workers United (DMC)
25 El Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California/ Institute of Popular Education of Southern CA (IDEPSCA)
26 Enlace
27 Fabulous Independent Education Radicals for Community Empowerment (FIERCE)
28 Filipino Community Support (FOCUS), Santa Clara County, CA
29 Free Palestine Alliance
30 FTA Action Task Force-LA
31 Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
32 Habiarts LA Bayan
33 Han Pan Korean American Cultural Group (Maryland)
34 Ignacio Martin-Baro Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights
35 Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project
36 International Action Center (IAC)
37 Korean American Cultural Center, Virginia
38 Korean American National Coordinating Council
39 Korean Democratic Labor Party, US East Coast Branch
40 Korea Truth Commission
41 Left Turn Magazine
42 Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
43 Miami Workers Center
44 Multiethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON)
45 National Association of Korean Americans
46 National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
47 National Network of Indochina Activists
48 Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
49 Palestine Right to Return Coalition
50 Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California (PWC)
51 People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
52 Prison Moratorium Project (PMP)
53 Project South
54 Puerto Rican Alliance of L.A.
55 South Asian Network
56 Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network
57 Southwest Workers Union
58 Sweatshop Watch
59 Tenants and Workers United
60 Troops Out Now Coalition
61 United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE).
62 United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 1421
63 VietUnity, Bay Area, California
64 War Resisters League
65 Workers World Party/