Anonymous Comrade writes: "An eyewitness reports an explosion on the right side of the plane (I believe
it is a 767/A300 airbus with 246 passengers and 9 crew members) where the
wing joins the body of the plane. Another witness reports debris falling
from the sky before the plane crashed. There are two crash sites, one being
the spot where most of the plane crashed and another where one of the
engines crashed. I do not know if the wing came off the plane, but
eyewitnesses report seeing the plane fall out of the sky after the explosion
in a way that sounded like how a dove falls after being hit with shot. It
reportedly fell to the left, which leads me to suspect that the right wing
detached, along with the two separate crash sites. I am no expert, but I am
unfamiliar with what sort of mechanical failure would cause an explosion
where the wing meets the body. Perhaps the engine exploded and the way it
blew out caused the appearance of an explosion in the right side of the body
of the plane. I tried to access MSNBC as soon as a colleague told me about
the crash and I heard something about the jets having not been scrambled,
but then the network choked up on me, so I do not know what this was in
reference to. The BBC is reporting a military plane circling the crash site,
but that the Pentagon says they had no indication of any problems with the
plane before it crashed. The airbus was headed to Santa Domingo, so it was
full of fuel. Several buildings on the ground are on fire. The crash site is
a heavily populated residential part of Queens."

Protest Group Shifts Tactics At WTO Talks

By Paul Blustein

Washington Post Foreign Service

Monday, November 12, 2001; Page A01

DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 11 -- The way the plan was originally
conceived, six boats loaded with anti-globalization
activists were going to sail into the port of this Persian
Gulf sheikdom to protest the World Trade Organization
meeting here. "We were organizing everybody in our
movement," said Jose Bove, the French farmer renowned for
vandalizing a McDonald's restaurant.

The scheme was scrapped, however, after the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. Bove, one of a few dozen activists
roaming the halls at the conference center where the WTO
meeting is being held through Tuesday, instead has joined in
staging occasional demonstrations.

World War III Report, # 7

Nov. 10, 2001

Bill Weinberg

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

7.5 MILLION LIVES IN THE BALANCE

Aid organizations continued to issue urgent calls for a halt in the US bombing of Afghanistan so food and supplies can be delivered before winter, warning that millions of lives are at risk. They again protested that the US ration drops are only complicating matters.

Facing harsh criticism, the Pentagon plans to change the yellow packaging on the food drops which have caused confusion with yellow-cased cluster bombs, Newsday reported Nov. 2. "It is unfortunate that the cluster bombs, the unexploded ones, are the same color as the food packets," said Gen. Richard Myers, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. However, the change could take a while, because 2 million rations were already produced in the yellow packages. Half of these have already been dropped. Oxfam protests again that the Pentagon should leave aid to the aid agencies. "It just points up the confusion created when we mix military and humanitarian approaches," said Oxfam America president Ray Offenheiser.

Estacion Libre

Mobilization in Support of the Chiapas Community Defenders Network: Nov 19th

Zapatista Organization Files International Complaint Against Mexican Government!

Support Them As They Hold The Mexican Government Responsible To International Agreement on Indigenous Rights, Justice, and Self-Determination

To local, national and international civil society and media:

* What: Fax Jam Campaign demanding that the Mexican government comply with
International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 169 on Indigenous and
Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (see sample letter below)

* When: Monday, November 19, 2001 all day (as started October 12th)

* Where: Local Mexican Consulates (available at:
www.mexonline.com/consulate.htm)

* Why: On October 26, the Chiapas Community Defenders Network (La Red de
Defensores Comunitarios por los Derechos Humanos) announced that they filed
a formal complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO) against
the recently passed Indigenous Reform in Mexico. They need our support to
pressure the Mexican government.

Here's a mainstream article that might inspire you to COME TO OTTAWA FROM
NOV. 16-18th!!

They say that they expect 5,000 protesters. Let's prove them wrong and
surprise the Ottawa Police with 20,000.

It's time to take a stand again.....no more hiding behind "vigils".

SEE YOU THERE

please forward....

Anarchists vow to shut down G-20, others pledge peaceful protests
By DENNIS BUECKERT

OTTAWA (CP) - Anarchists are threatening to shut down the G-20 meeting which
opens in Ottawa next Friday, and protest organizers are preparing for the
possibility of arrests and injuries. While most protest groups say they are
committed to peaceful tactics, some anarchists are striking a more militant
tone.

"We propose that we attempt to shut down the IMF/WB/G-20 meetings as well as
we can, by snake marching militantly through the downtown core of Ottawa,"
says a Toronto group called The Black Touta.

The Pentagon has solicited ideas on combatting terrorism. They're
calling for one-page proposals at http://www.bids.tswg.gov. It's
actually a CONTEST (can you believe it?), so why don't we spread
the word on this far and wide, and send them our real ideas, poems,
suggestions, meditations and satyagrahas? Let's swamp their
contest with peaceful, creative, humble suggestions. If they get enough of
them, who knows...? (I'd say it might drive them crazy, but they're
already crazy. They think war solves problems.)

So please pass this information on. Forward it to as many people
as you can. Let's stun them with the beauty of peace.

We received the following account of anti-globalization action in Beirut:

NAYLA RAZZOUK


BEIRUT

World anti-globalisation militants condemned here Monday the "shameful"
convention of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Qatar which they said was
meant to impose a "second colonisation" on the third world.

"It is a shame to accept that such a meeting be held in an Arab country, after it has been expelled from the West. We should also expell it," said former Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella. Ben Bella was speaking at the opening of the four-day "World Forum on Globalisation and Global Trade" held at the American University of Beirut, in the second such forum in Lebanon to counter the WTO meeting November 9-13.

Autonomedia writes: "Lucio Colletti, who has died of a heart attack aged 76, was a much-loved philosophy professor at Italian universities who dedicated most of his life to studying and teaching Karl Marx--and ended his days as a parliamentary deputy for the party of premier Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's richest capitalist.

The London Guardian has posted an obituary.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Worldwide Events Around the 4th WTO Ministerial in Qatar, November 9-13, 2001

Hundreds of protest events are planned in lots of cities around the world to
coincide with the 4th Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO). We
have counted actions in 36 countries and probably lots will be added.

This has been printed in many other places, but it makes some good points-- nomadlab

Anonymous Comrade writes: "Consumer advocate Ralph Nader
said on
Monday the United States was ``ripe for a revolt'' against what he called

corporate power grabs following the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

Joined by representatives of groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the
Earth, Nader criticized congressional leaders, the Bush administration and
big business for taking advantage of the attacks that killed nearly 4,800
people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

``There is a whole range of power grabs going on,'' Nader said at Washington
news conference. ``There is an escalation of the corporate takeover of the
United States.

``The ground and soil are ripe for a revolt by the American people,'' the 2000
Green Party presidential candidate added.