I-69 News

Demo against I-69 and PPP in Lexington, KY

• Posted by i69news on March 3rd, 2007 filed in Resistance

Reposted from another newswire:

15 people demonstrated last Thursday in Lexington, Kentucky, against Wilbur Smith
and Associates, a multinational engineering firm that has had a role in planning
both the I-69 corridor in the U.S. and the Plan Puebla Panama “development” scheme
in Mexico and Central America.

The two projects, which are designed as the physical infrastructure for free trade
agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA, are also physically linked. Where I-69 ends at
the Brownsville-Matamoros border crossing, the Atlantic corridor highways of the
PPP begin. The projected road link-up will be vital to the emerging free
trade-based economy, with about 50% of NAFTA traffic crossing at this one point,
once the highways are completed.

The demonstration last Thursday was also a step forward in spreading resistance to
the road in Kentucky. A wide swathe of the western region of the state will be
destroyed to facilitate these hemisphere-wide trade plans. Demonstrators shut
down the WSA office and were nearly forced to physically defend themselves after
an office manager attempted to attack someone carrying a bullhorn in order to
steal it.

More info on WSA can be found at http://www.wilbursmith.com