"...The money king is only an illusion. Capitalism is blind and barbaric. It poisons the water and the air. It destroys everything. And to the U'wa, it says that we are crazy, but we want to continue being crazy if it means we can continue to exist on our dear Mother Earth."

The U'wa indigenous people, after oil corporation Oxy was forced to withdraw from their land. Colombia, May 3rd 2002.

Several global mobilisations that will take from the 16th of September to the end of the year call on all people and movements to confront capitalism, militarism, racism, sexism, religious fundamentalism, environmental degradation and all controls and limitations on the freedom of communication and movement of human beings. We encourage you to link any actions that you undertake during this time to our mobilisations and all struggles against oppression. If you haven't planned any action so far for these months, then we invite you to act in solidarity.

Global days of action against capitalism have successfully challenged the legitimacy of many centralised power structures. Anti-capitalist networks have damaged the reputation and exposed the violence inflicted by despotic institutions and agreements. However, we need more than just actions against specific institutions in order to undermine all forms of domination and oppression. Fear is the main weapon that the global elites use to legitimise themselves and strengthen their stranglehold on the necks of all people who are poor, non-white or working for social change. If we fail to confront and offset that fear, especially in the wake of 0911, we will face an accelerated transformation towards outright fascism fuelled by powerful economic interests.

Autonomous, decentralised global actions combine our strengths and creativity around the world, but now is the time to connect protests and actions against specific dimensions of the web of oppression and show their interdependence. We therefore call on all people who value life and freedom to participate in a season of global decentralised actions against oppression. We have chosen the period between the 16th of September (peasant mobilisation in Colombia) through the end of September (WEF meeting in Salzburg and WB/IMF meeting in Washington), end of October-beginning of November (FTAA Summit in Quito), the 22nd of November (end of NATO summit in Prague) and the global disobedience day (21st December, anniversary of the Argentinean uprising) for this experiment of intense global emancipatory action. This is just one of many more steps towards the growing globalisation and interconnection of struggles, which should reinforce the construction of local alternatives. We expect this season of actions to contribute to relations of mutual support and to the broadening of perspectives after the 22nd of November.

For this to happen, we ask you to:

• Connect any actions you have planned in this period to all other actions through www.emancipate.info, or organise actions if youhaven't planned any already in this period.
• Show active solidarity with each other in the face of repression.
• Report and reflect on other actions through independent media in your community and in this way strengthen our communication and our opposition to corporate and state media.
• Take this opportunity to learn, understand and take advantage of each others' visions, methods and tactics; both in our opposition to structures of domination and in the direct realisation of our ideals.
• Discuss ways to strengthen the connections between regions and fields of struggle through global long-term initiatives of cooperation (see web page: www.emancipate.info).

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