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December
6 / 7, 2003
Report from the Anti-FTAA
Protest
Defying the Police State
in Miami
By LEE SUSTAR
"Welcome to the police state of
Miami." That's Florida AFL-CIO President Cynthia Hall's
greeting to thousands of union members gathering in the city's
Bayfront Park Amphitheater on November 20, as we prepare to march
against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) summit.
Lines of cops are aiming rifles loaded
with plastic bullets at the heads of union members. They've roughed
up and arrested several unionists already--including retirees--and
they will prevent thousands from even entering the arena.
Along with the injuries come plenty of
calculated insults--like the police helicopter buzzing the amphitheater
as AFL-CIO President John Sweeney begins to speak. By the time
the last protest is over, nearly 200 arrests will take place,
with dozens of protesters injured, many seriously. And AFL-CIO
leaders, protest organizers and civil liberties groups will join
forces to denounce the authorities' countless violations of civil
rights.
This highly militarized--and systematically
brutal--show of force by 40 law enforcement agencies won't prevent
the FTAA negotiations from unraveling behind the fortified fence
that surrounds the meetings at the exclusive Inter-Continental
Hotel, however. And despite police use of concussion grenades,
rubber and plastic bullets, pepper spray balls, Taser stun-guns,
tanks, helicopters and more, the global justice movement is reviving
on the streets of Miami, with an estimated 25,000 prepared to
protest.
In rallies, marches, teach-ins and one-on-one
discussions, global-justice activists, labor union members, direct-action
protesters, Latin American labor and social movement leaders,
and antiwar movement organizers renew old alliances made during
the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle--and
forge new ones.
* *
*
Seattle made a much bigger splash, but
Miami may ultimately prove to be more meaningful for the global
justice movement in the U.S. The lineup at the November 18 "spokescouncil"--a
meeting of affinity groups allied for the direct-action protests
at the FTAA--shows why.
Among the participants is Ron Judd, the
Western regional director of the AFL-CIO, who has been assigned
by the labor federation to work out an agreement with direct-action
protesters who plan to challenge Miami's martial law-style ordinances
restricting protests and the fortified fence surrounding the
FTAA meetings. As president of the King County Federation of
Labor in Seattle in 1999, Judd helped organize the 50,000-strong
march against the World Trade Organization summit, and was instrumental
in organizing the protests against police abuse afterward.
At the meeting space--a welcome center
organized at a rented warehouse--different organizations of protesters
known as affinity groups report their names, political focus
and the number of participants expected. Protesters have arrived
from across the country. Some have worked together for years
on particular issues--environmentalism or feminism, for example--while
others have formed alliances with like-minded activists that
they've met online or in Miami.
When Judd's turn comes, he announces
that he's with the AFL-CIO--"an affinity group of 15,000
to 20,000 members"--to loud cheers. Also on hand is Fred
Frost, president of the South Florida AFL-CIO, who says, "You
aren't getting a lot of officials who are welcoming you here,
so I'd like to extend a sincere welcome," adding that "I
can't tell you the feeling of community that I've experienced
here."
Several international guests are present
as well. Among them is Blanca Chancoso of the Confederation of
Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (known as CONAIE by its initials
in Spanish), the organizations that mobilized last year's protest
against the FTAA summit in that country.
The Ecuadorian protests defied police
repression to march on the summit--and forced their way into
the meeting for a face-to-face confrontation with U.S. Trade
Representative Robert Zoellick. No one expects a repeat of that
experience in Miami.
But protesters are determined to challenge
the repressive laws and overwhelming show of force organized
by Miami Police Chief John Timoney. The question on the floor
is how to handle the direct-action protests so that they don't
give police a pretext to clamp down on the permitted labor march
set for November 20.
After a long discussion, direct-action
organizers and union leaders meet separately to map out a block-by-block
plan. Chancoso joins them. While the approaches are different,
the unity is genuine--and the commitment is reinforced when AFL-CIO
President John Sweeney and the federation's secretary-treasurer,
Rich Trumka, visit the welcome center the following day.
For the first time since the September
11 attacks led to the cancellation of the protests against the
World Bank and International Monetary Fund in the fall of 2001,
the global justice movement is gaining momentum.
* * *
The first big show of police force comes
that same night. As about 2,500 marchers from a coalition of
South Florida social movement groups known as Root Cause complete
their three-day, 34-mile march from Fort Lauderdale to Miami
to highlight global justice issues, hundreds of riot police surround
them--tear gas, pepper spray and plastic bullets at the ready.
If the police firepower is absurdly out
of proportion to the size of the protest, it's because Chief
Timoney has a wider agenda. Already notorious for ordering pre-emptive
arrests and police raids on activists at the 2000 Republican
National Convention in Philadelphia, where he was police chief,
Timoney has become an ambitious national player in law enforcement
and private-sector security.
After leaving Philadelphia, he served
as consultant for the World Economic Forum meeting in New York
in 2002, the Iraqi police in Kirkuk--and next year's Democratic
National Convention in Boston. For Timoney, the FTAA protests
offer a chance to run a multi-agency operation--local jurisdiction,
state troopers, FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
and more--and build his resume for a top job in the federal Department
of Homeland Security.
For Miami cops, the operation brings
good public relations after a series of corruption scandals and
a long history of racist brutality directed at the city's African-American
and Haitian populations.
And from their standpoint, the Feds see
an opportunity to nationalize local law enforcement to curb protest.
Thus, $8 million in funding for policing protests at the FTAA
protests turned up in the $87 billion Iraq occupation funding
bill--and judging by a look at the new police equipment, Timoney
spent every penny.
* * *
What's different in Miami isn't just
the scale of the police operation, but who it's aimed at. And
members of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) have a gut
feeling that they just might be targets, too.
At a steelworkers' forum on Tuesday,
November 20, USWA President Leo Gerard announces that the union
will be distributing bandanas, advising the 1,500 union members
at a hotel ballroom that if they dunk the cloth in vinegar, it
will protect their lungs from tear gas. He adds with a grin,
"Not that I have any experience with this shit, but that's
what they tell me"--to howls of laughter and cheers from
workers who know Gerard's reputation for mixing it up with police
on picket lines as a leader of the USWA's Canada division.
The USWA's first run-in with the cops
comes the following day--not in an organized demonstration, but
in a spontaneous protest that comes close to a fight between
union members and police. A few minutes before the scheduled
start of an AFL-CIO-sponsored forum on the FTAA in downtown Miami,
police grab several young people and push them against a riot
gate of one of the many shops closed for the week.
Suddenly, the cops are themselves surrounded
by more than a hundred angry steelworkers, whose shouts of "They
didn't do anything!" quickly turned into chants of "Let
them go! Let them go!" The police call in scores of reinforcements
to push the workers back, and marshals from the USWA and AFL-CIO
hustle workers inside.
The police allow the young people to
move on. But workers' outrage over the heavy-handed police tactics
keeps smoldering--and when the USWA member on the panel, Allen
Long, denounces the cops' "Gestapo tactics," he gets
a standing ovation.
* * *
The forum event, titled "Giving
Voice to Workers of the Americas," features workers from
the U.S., Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Nicaragua in a dialogue
hosted by AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson.
The exchanges are moving--from the story of Salvador Estrada,
a member of UNITE at the closed Pillowtex textile plant in Kannapolis,
N.C., to the account of Francisca Acuna Hernandez, a worker in
the maquiladora factories of Reynosa, Mexico, who was fired as
an organizer by the <U.S.-based> Delphi auto parts company.
"Work there is like slavery," she says.
One of the most powerful testimonies
comes from Dave Brevard, a worker at the Maytag plant in Galesburg,
Ill., which will soon close and move its production to a plant
in Reynosa. Looking at Hernandez, Brevard--president of International
Association of Machinists Local Lodge 2063--says that "free
trade isn't the fault of workers in these other countries"
to a resounding cheer from the audience.
Instead, he says, workers should focus
their anger on corporations that will cut labor costs by moving
production abroad, but won't lower the prices of their products.
Maytag, he points out, got millions in tax breaks to locate in
Galesburg, and the plant's closure will devastate the small city
of 34,000.
He adds that members of the local in
the military in Iraq will return to find that "the way of
life they left behind will be gone." The USWA's Long also
makes a reference to the war, pointing out that the U.S. has
spent billions on Iraq "supposedly fighting for peace and
democracy." He's answered by boos and cries of "Bullshit!"--directed
not at him, but at George W. Bush.
All this is a long way from the ties
between the U.S. labor movement and the U.S. State Department
during the Cold War that led opponents of American wars abroad
to refer to the federation as the "AFL-CIA"--because
of union leaders' record of helping Washington undermine democratic
and militant unions in Latin America.
Contradictions remain. The AFL-CIO maintains
ties with the Venezuelan trade union federation, the FTV, whose
top leaders lined up with the attempted right-wing coup in that
country in 2002. And the USWA itself remains committed to steel
tariffs that have hurt their brothers and sisters in Brazil and
other countries.
Moreover, a day before the workers' forum,
union president Gerard had invited CEO Wilbur Ross of the International
Steel Group to Miami to make common cause with workers on protectionism.
Gephardt for President buttons and stickers are everywhere, indicating
the union's political priorities.
But there's no doubting the spirit of
international solidarity at the workers' forum. After describing
his visit with steelworkers in Brazil, the USWA's Long--who lost
his pension after 30 years at Bethlehem Steel when the plant
went bankrupt-- sums it up. "We should be the Steelworkers
of the Americas," he says, "not the United Steelworkers
of America."
* * *
Internationalism dominates the People's
Gala at the Bayfront Park Amphitheater later that evening. Several
thousand union members and young activists gather for a mixture
of politics from union leaders like Richard Trumka and fiery
anti-imperialist speeches from Blanca Chancoso of Ecuador and
Bolivian union leader Oscar Olivera. Olivera describes the mass
movement that overthrew that country's president over his attempt
to export Bolivia's natural gas.
U.S. global justice activists like Njoki
Njehu--of 50 Years is Enough, the anti-IMF and World Bank group--and
members of United Students Against Sweatshops also address the
crowd. Music from entertainers like Steve Earle, Billy Bragg,
Lester Chambers and others please both young activists and older
workers alike.
In the back of the arena, workers and
young activists crowd literature tables on a range of political
issues. The Jobs with Justice booth is overwhelmed, as workers
snap up literature and sign up to get involved. Elsewhere, rank-and-file
steelworkers are in long discussions with members of the International
Socialist Organization.
Some of the biggest cheers are for Camille
Chalmers, a leader of Haiti's Platform for the Advocacy of Alternative
Development, who revs up the crowd by recalling how the Haitian
Revolution defeated the armies of France and Britain two centuries
ago. "With this energy, we will overthrow the FTAA,"
Chalmers declares, adding, "We say no to imperialism."
Later on, Fred Frost of the South Florida
AFL-CIO joins with a direct action protester to announce that
union members who wish to join a march to the gate following
the next day's rally should meet at 5 <p.m.--a> public
statement about the unity negotiated earlier. The scene--red-shirted
members of UNITE, blue-shirted USWA members and militant young
activists--recalls the World Social Forum in Brazil, where tens
of thousands have gathered for the last three years to discuss
alternatives to free-market policies.
The official AFL-CIO slogan for the FTAA
protest--the words "Good Jobs" superimposed on the
globe--doesn't even begin to capture the mood. The feeling is
much more in tune with the theme of the social forum movement:
Another World Is Possible.
* * *
The next morning, some of the obstacles
to that new world are on display in all their ugliness. The planned
direct action protests are undermined at the outset when police
prevent several hundred protesters from marching from the welcome
center to the downtown meeting point, where a march to the fence
is planned, starting at 7 a.m.
After several attempts to get to the
fence, protesters are herded by police into an area near the
fence--just down the street from where union members are expected
to march. A cop announces that the protesters will be permitted
to stay in the area as long as they don't move forward--but the
cops themselves advance a few minutes later, tossing concussion
grenades and shooting plastic bullets, pepper spray and tear
gas.
This gives the police the pretext to
tighten security around the Bayfront Park Amphitheater, preventing
thousands of workers from even entering the event. Inside, top
labor leaders--including UNITE President Bruce Raynor and Andy
Stern of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)--denounce
the police, as does Sweeney. "The cops have broken every
single agreement they've made with us," shouts a furious
Ron Judd, who suddenly has to improvise a new march route.
Incredibly, the workers assemble--organized,
purposeful and increasingly angry with police. The Steelworkers,
decked out in brand-new "FTAA Sucks" T-shirts, lead
the way. They're followed by unions rarely seen in political
marches, such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers and the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Several thousand global justice demonstrators--most
barred by police from entering the amphitheater--join as well,
with the total turnout reaching about 25,000. The march is scheduled
to end with another rally, but with police once again restricting
access, most choose to leave instead.
As the crowd shrinks, the police make
another, far more aggressive move--this time swinging clubs and
shooting plastic bullets at point blank range. Among the injured
are Vicky Hartman, an artist shot in the head while meditating
in front of police lines; Rex Blazer, a visitor from Alaska in
town to arrange medical treatment for his child, who was shot
in the lip; and Jennifer Waltz, who was clubbed in the head by
a cop and Tasered on her arm and breast while trying to talk
to a reporter near police lines.
The cops keep pursuing protesters, scattering
them into the African American neighborhood of Overtown. A 42-year-old
man, a lifelong resident of the area, says he's never seen a
police presence like this--not even during the 1989 riots on
the eve of that year's Super Bowl, when a police killing of a
Black man sparked a neighborhood rebellion.
A police helicopter circles constantly
over the protesters' welcome center, and at a nearby staging
area, police prepare for a raid that could come at any minute.
A press pass is no guarantee of avoiding police brutality. Several
Latino reporters--including those with cameras, microphones and
the like--are struck, pepper-sprayed or beaten by police.
Local TV news coverage casts the cops
as heroes who saved Miami from destruction. When word comes that
the FTAA talks have ended early, news anchors parrot the line
that the talks are a "success"--even though the U.S.
has been forced to swallow its demands for new rules on trade
and investment.
* * *
The next day, November 21, nearly 200
activists protest this brutality by staging a peaceful sit-in
outside the jail, where some activists are processed and released,
while others face trumped-up felony charges with bail as high
as $10,000. Word is passed that the police will allow the protest
to continue until 5 p.m. But well before then, the cops move
in, shooting pepper spray and roughing up about 60 more people.
Downtown, the AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club
and the American Civil Liberties Union call a press conference
to denounce the police crackdown and announce that they're exploring
legal action against the police. By Saturday, November 22, most
out-of town protesters have returned home, but the fallout over
the police attacks on the demonstrations continues.
The Miami police are unrepentant. "The
AFL-CIO should look inward and question the wisdom of inviting
avowed troublemakers to participate in a rally," the department
says in a statement written for the Miami Herald. The message
is clear enough: In the view of those assigned to defend the
interests of Corporate America, organized labor isn't made up
of respectable citizens, but troublemakers who have to be taught
a lesson.
The lesson for the global justice movement,
however, is a different one. The global justice movement will
continue to be full of differences and debate--over the 2004
elections, steel tariffs and much more.
But Miami showed that a movement for
global justice can be built in the U.S.--one that can not only
withstand police repression, but put forward an alternative based
on internationalism, solidarity and struggle. Another world is
possible--and the protests in Miami marked a revival of the movement
in the U.S. to make that world a reality.
Lee Sustar
writes for the Socialist Worker, where this essay originally
appeared. He can be reached at: lsustar@ameritech.net
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