Anti-WEF Vigil-
An Open Invitation to a Party

Feb. 1, 6:00 p.m. Washington Square Park

Another World is Possible

A CALL FOR CREATION:
ART AND MUSIC TO PROTEST THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

DID YOU KNOW that from January 31 to February 4 the world's most powerful CEOs and politicians will converge on the shell-shocked city of New York under the guise of `improving the state of the world' to decide new ways on how to exploit the planet's resources and workers?

Did you know they are planning to hold an indulgent cocktail party at the New York Stock Exchange, only a few blocks from the still smoldering devastation of the World Trade Center?

Help us expose and lampoon their immoral romp.

Come "celebrate" the triumph of corporate power in this enforced climate of fear and uncertainty:

dress in your finest threads,
make elongated cigarette holders,
bring enormous papier mache martini glasses.

Bring along your homeless, your exiles, your exploited workers.

It's party time!

(We'll even dance the tango on shantytowns!)

With the public paralyzed by fear, and the continued dissolution of barriers to trade and global capital movement (such as those pesky laws protecting working conditions, public health crises and the environment), its showtime for Big Business.

Oh, I'm sorry-Did your invitation get lost in the mail?

No matter. Come join instead the PEOPLE'S tea party on the streets of New York and show the top-hat cronies what a better world would look like!

WE HAVE THE TOOLS FOR CHANGE

We create not with nuclear power and sweatshops, but with cardboard and papier mache.

Our tools are universal:

Yellow Torches to carry the light of truth and justice,
Red Shovels and Spades to plant the seeds of change in the earth,
Purple Paintbrushes to express creative vision,
Blue Ears so that all people might be heard,
Orange Hammers for worker`s rights and for building adequate shelter for all,
Green hearts to heal the earth with our compassion.

We ask that you build a giant puppet personifying the spirit of your community, or choose to paint a banner of your community's vision of a better world.

Create a sea of globes or a grove of trees. Design a "Missing" poster to both honor and commemorate the lost victims of violence or injustice.

Musically inclined? Bring your instruments to celebrate the diversity and resilience of the people. Join a samba band. Bring plastic buckets for percussion, and bang pots and pans (cacerolazo) in solidarity with the people of Argentina!

We encourage all student, immigrant, community groups, union organizations, all people with kind hearts and courage, to contact us to better coordinate our actions and theatric imagery.

Which tea party best represents your dreams and goals?

Take to the streets to voice your opposition to the WEF's exclusion, and celebrate civic inclusion with creative hope.

Our open convention begins at a permitted VIGIL in Washington Square Park, 6pm, February 1.

It continues, of course, with our legal pageant of vibrant, defiant, diverse communities on February 2.

Gather at the SE corner of Central Park at Noon, where we'll be led by none other than "Mother of the Exiled," Lady Liberty herself. Her shining torch of justice and liberty will light our path to Waldorf Astoria where we'll demand that political power, now amassed by unaccountable corporations, be returned to the PEOPLE-where it belongs!

With your help, we certainly will prove... ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!