Road to RuinA presentation on the NAFTA Superhighway:

Interstate 69

The state needs roads, buildings, vehicles, information technology, surveillance and weaponry systems to function. Capitalism requires these same things for efficient movement of commodities and labor, and for resource extraction and exploitation. While these mechanisms have strengthened control and exploitation like never before, they have also created many weaknesses.

The weaknesses are an opportunity.

Infrastructure Projects as a TargetThroughout the world, multinational corporations

and trade organizations are damming huge rivers for electricity, ripping apart the earth to put in sprawling roads, tearing down forests to build factories, and exploding mountains to extract energy. People are resisting these projects as a way to deal a blow to capitalist globalization.

Today, capitalist globalization permeates all borders, affects all people, and destroys ecosystems across the

world.

The areas filled in blue are places where WSA, a small infrastructure design company that is involved in I-69, has worked.

Plan Puebla Panama (PPP)

The PPP is a gigantic infrastructure aimed at the finishing the industrialization and NAFTA agreements of a large portion of Central and South America. It includes roads, dams, transportation ports, airports, biological corridors, and other projects.

Chronology of Summit Protests

1999- November 30 Seattle WTO2000- April 16 DC IMF/WB

September11 Melbourne WEF September 26 Prague IMF/WB

2001- January 27 Davos WEF April 20 Quebec FTAA July Genoa G8 September 29 DC IMF/WB

2002- February 21 NYC/Davos WEF April 20 DC IMF/WB June 26 Kananaskis G8 September 27 DC IMF/WB

2003- September 27 Cancun WTO November Miami FTAA

Interstate 69

I-69 is a road building project that passes through eight states and is a NAFTA corridor.

The most contested states are Indiana and Texas.

Interstate 69 In Indiana

Interstate 69 and Privatization

Past Resistance to Interstate 69 In Indiana

Resistance to Interstate 69 has included rallys, demonstrations, and disruption of public

meetings …

… reclaiming streets and public theatre.

What we can do from here: