Announcement from Occupy El Paso

Occupy El Paso

19th Anniversary of NAFTA
19 years of corporate domination over the people of the United States and Mexico

What: Demonstration and teach-in at the foot of the Santa Fe Bridge, El Paso

When: Jan. 1, 2012, 3-4 PM
**Press Conference 3:15 PM

Who: Occupy El Paso and members of Occupy Las Cruces

Why: On Jan. 1, 1994, NAFTA went into effect. After 18 years of “free trade”
between the United States and Mexico, we have massive unemployment and
underemployment, and poverty and human suffering in both countries. Corporations
benefit while the 99% suffer.

The public is invited!

Press contact: Joe or Merlyn Heyman
jheyman@elp.rr.com
915-351-8392

Key points:

Who has benefitted? The corporate elite, the “1%,” of both Mexico and the US.
Who has lost? The workers, middle class, peasants (campesinos), and family farmers of
both Mexico and the US. The “99%.”

NAFTA provides for “freedom” of capital investment, ownership of property, and trade
in commodities. Freedom for the rich! It does not provide for human freedom to move.
It fails to promote autonomous, beneficial local development. Domination over the 99%!

Cross-border trade can be fair and just, but not under the NAFTA system. We need a
new North American treaty focused on human development.

For more information on Occupy El Paso and Occupy Las Cruces:
http://occupyelpaso.org/
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyElPaso
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Las-Cruces-Official/288381804505226