For people who are thinking of going to Quebec City to protest the FTAA, the most important thing at this stage is to get transportation plans settled, and secondly to book lodging. The following guide should hopefully simplify these tasks.
Eric
http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/ftaa.htm
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It looks like the transportation demand is going to exceed the supply, particularly in Ontario and in the Maritimes, so in the case of people who plan to take their car to Quebec, it would be very helpful if they could make available any extra space they might have for other activists. Car pooling will require some central coordinating in each region, however, and it is important to find out who will take care of this. The car pooling coordinator will usually be someone associated with the larger transportion plans (see below). If, however, there is no one who is doing this, you might consider offering your services. Once it is determined who the car pooling coordinator is for a given region, I would appreciate it if you could forward that information back to me so that I can add that info. to the list below.
(email: ftaa-alert@angelfire.com)
CARPOOLING LINK
This is a carpooling board which is being coordinated by FTAA-Alert.
Contact the group nearest you to find out about what bus or train arrangements have been made. The following list consists of all the groups organizing transportation that I am aware of; if you know of others, please let me know (at ftaa-alert@angelfire.com). This list will also be maintained online by Operation Quebec Printemps 2001 (OQP2001), (front page: http://www.oqp2001.org/), so please also forward information to them at: transportation@oqp2001.org
NOVA SCOTIA
Antigonish
Student Action Coalition
tel: (902) 867-2442
email: scarecrow@canada.com
http://www.geocities.com/studentactioncoalition/
Halifax
Halifax Mobilization for Global Justice
Anna Hunter, (902) 425-4584
email: annababe@ziplip.com
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Charlottetown
PEI Mobilization for Global Justice
Janette Cormier, tel./fax: 902.566.5916
email: jcormier@hushmail.com
NEW BRUNSWICK
Fredricton
Coalition of Fredericton Activists
Gary Bowden
QUEBEC
Montreal
FTAA-Alert
(514) 931-2377
BUSES FROM MONTREAL TO QUEBEC CITY are being handled by FTAA-Alert Concordia (514- 931-2377). There will be three choices for departure: April 19,20, and 21. The Thursday and Friday buses will be leaving in the evening, while the Saturday bus will depart early in the morning. The return buses will be leaving Saturday late afternoon onwards (buses will leave once they are filled, so you won't be given an exact departure time) and the same idea from Sunday from around 2:00 onwards. The cost for the round trip will be $15 per person. Sign up either directly at the FTAA-Alert number (see above) or through me (450-437-5044). You will be asked to specify whether you will require lodging. FTAA-Alert will then forward a collective request to OQP2001 who are madly scrambling to fill the demand for accomodations in Q. City. Accomodations will be sparse: a sleeping bag and sleeping mat will be required.
ONTARIO
Guelph: (note: see below for border action information)
Guelph Action Network
http://www.tao.ca/~gan/antiftaa/
The next meetings of the GAN anti-FTAA working group (University Centre room 441, at the University of Guelph) are on: March 17, 31 April 7, 14
Kingston (note: see below for border action information)
Queen's Coalition Against Corporate Globalization
c/o OPIRG Kingston
The Earth Centre, JDUC
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
1 (613) 650-7037
http://www.web.net/~opirgkin/qcacg/
email : fishinghurtsthefish@hotmail.com
Northumberland Area:
http://stopftaa.org/Northumberland/
email: no2ftaa@hotmail.com
Ottawa
Ottawa / Carleton Universities
http://www.uottawa.ca/gsaed/anti-ftaa.html
call: OPIRG-Carleton at (613) 520-2757
-University of Ottawa Anti-FTAA Organizing Committee:
Joel Duff, (613) 562-5800 ext.3000,
-Carleton University Anti-FTAA Organizing
Committee: Stephanie Goodwin, 520-7400
Others (non-students):
Contact John Hollingsworth (John will also be coordinating car pooling or Ottawa)
email: hollingsworth@caut.ca
telephone: 244-0122
Toronto
Mobilization for Global Justice
buses: $60 - $100 return fare
(416)208-0785.
email: mob4glob@dojo.tao.ca
http://www.mob4glob.ca/index.html
MANITOBA
Winnipeg:
DAISYQ
(204)786-5000 ext. 1878
email: mitb@escape.ca,
Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House
1-91 Albert Street,
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1G5
Tel: (204) 946-5241
E-mail: mondragon@a-zone.org
Website: http://www.a-zone.org/mondragon
ALBERTA
Edmonton
People's Action Network
http://www.pan-edmonton.f2s.com/
contact: Anna at axenic@furbymail.com
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vancouver
Vancouver Mobilization for Global Justice
c/o 503 - 207 West Hastings Ave
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 1H7
everybodysbusiness@yahoo.ca
(604) 623-5333 [voicemail]
http://www.tao.ca/~mobglob-van/index.html
Note : Vancouver Mobilization For Global Justice meets every Wednesday at 7:30 pm, at the CEP Local 2000 Union Hall: 475 Howe St. (@ Pender) - Suite 400.
GENERAL
Canadian Labour Congress. I haven't confirmed to what extent they are organizing, but if the specific links above don't yield results or your area is not included, it might be worth calling the CLC National Office at 1-800-387-3500
http://www.tao.ca/~kdawg/smashftaa.html
Community activists from Eastern Ontario, upstate New York, the Mohawk Nation, Toronto, Guelph, NYC and New England would like to invite all FTAA opponents to take part in a border action caravan the day before demonstrations at the Summit of the Americas conference in Quebec City. We encourage all of those either organizing locally or travelling to the Summit of the Americas to fight against international capital every inch of the way.
Ensure Safe Border Crossing for All People
Organizers, and activists from Peterborough, Belleville, Toronto and all points west are invited to stay in Kingston with billets on the evening of Wednesday, April 18. We will leave Kingston at 7am Thursday 19 in caravan and travel towards Quebec City, along the "NAFTA Free Trade Corridor" Hwy 401. We will do this very slowly, creating a clogged artery in a major Canada-US trade route. We will stop at the 1000 Islands International Bridge past Gananoque to wait for allies from Syracuse, Utica, Binghamton, the rest of New York State and beyond.
A cell-phone number will be available for any comrades from the US. These will be available closer to the event. If they are not allowed free passage, we will close down the border. If they can't pass, nothing will.From the 1000 Islands bridge the Caravan will continue east, picking up activists from Ottawa atthe junction of Hwy 401 and Hwy 16. (If we are blocking the bridge Ottawa activists could join us)
Shut Down the Life-Lines of the Global Economy or Block the Locks!
The caravan will stop in Cornwall, again to ensure safe crossing at the border for anyone who wants to enter Canada. Near Cornwall are a series of locks for the St.Lawrence Seaway. We will lock down these locks, stopping the vast commercial shipping volume in or out of the Seaway. Paul Martin, Canada's Finance Minister owns CSL (Canada Shipping Lines) Closing the locks closes down not just an inhumane economic system but directly affects the pocketbooks of the very people implementing the neo-liberal agenda.
From here caravanners could continue to Quebec City or keep the locks shut down. We hope to be in Cornwall by noon, which would leave lots of time to get to Quebec City the evening before all of the action.
Ask the group you are arranging transportation with if they are also making collective arrangements for accommodation. Otherwise, get in contact Operation Quebec Printemps 2001 (OQP2001), the Quebec coalition which is making arrangements for both groups and individuals. Contact with them well in advance to assure that space is reserved for you. Be aware that most billets will require that you bring your own sleeping bag and floor mat. There are online forms at their website (http://www.oqp2001.org/) or call them at:
Telephone : (418) 524-5225
Fax : (418) 524-3307
Visit http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/ftaa.htm for a fairly thorough set of FTAA organizing links.
Need a perimeter map? 'Official' Perimeter Maps
Photo guide and maps of the Quebec security perimeter for the $ummit of the Americas and other streets: Maps and Guide
Guide photo avec cartes du perimetre de securite et les autres rues en Quebec pour le $ommet des AmŽriques: Maps and Guide
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