"Hosting the annual summit militarizes the city, displaces residents, disrupts local businesses and hampers city life, mirroring the impact of APEC policies across its member nations.

As faith leaders, we oppose APEC due to its global dispossession, militarization and displacement in San Francisco. The city is spending millions on security, cleanup and marketing the event as a solution to the doom loop."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/article/apec-san-francisco-18481253.php #no2apec #apec #sanfrancisco

"'When the people like the CEO of ExxonMobil have literally direct access … to people like Joe Biden or [Bongbong] Marcos from the Philippines or [Xi] Jinping,' Evasco said. 'That type of unfettered access to world leaders when they’re negotiating a framework that could dictate how trade is done for decades to come is just unacceptable.'"

https://www.kqed.org/news/11967074/as-apec-kicks-off-protestors-are-descending-on-san-francisco-heres-what-you-need-to-know #no2apec #joebiden #xijinping #bbm #china #philippines #trade #oilandgas

"IPEF’s detractors say this new framework in particular would offshore more jobs, roll back critical labor and environmental regulations, make more of our personal data available for surveillance and profit, and undermine democracy."

https://convergencemag.com/articles/these-no-2-apec-activists-know-the-high-price-of-free-trade/ #no2apec #apec #ipef

join the SF Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines & other international solidarity orgs this wednesday at an art build & teach-in on the harms of neoliberalism & #APEC, both locally & globally. we'll be screenprinting a NEW piece by yours truly 🤭

first universalist unitarian church
1187 franklin st, #sanfrancisco
wednesday, oct. 25 @ 6-8PM

rsvp: http://tinyurl.com/no2apecsf

#no2apec #neoliberal #philippines #internationalsolidarity