>From: Michael Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Status: > >forwarded by Michael Hoover > >> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 20:04:49 -0500 (EST) >> From: "Jane G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Food Not Bombs List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Come to D.C. in April! Protest IMF & WB! (fwd) >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:53:33 -0600 >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Come to D.C. in April! Protest IMF & WB! >> >> IMF & World Bank in Washington / April 16, 2000 >> >> Stand Again for Economic Justice! >> Oppose Oppressive Globalization! >> >> A powerful U.S. movement for economic and human rights and fair trade had >> its coming-out party at the WTO meetings in Seattle. A range of forces who >> value human and ecological dignity over corporate profits and trickle-down >> economics came together there. We challenged one of the most insidious >> tools of unaccountable profit-driven rule, the World Trade Organization, and >> we scored an important series of victories against some daunting odds. >> >> In April, the struggle continues in Washington, DC - the very heart of >> political and institutional control over the global economy: the U.S. >> Treasury, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. They >> are the chief instruments used by political and corporate elites to create >> today's unjust, destructive global economic order. The World Bank and the >> IMF have been quietly writing the rules that keep the world safe for >> multinational corporations while economically depriving billions around the >> world. >> >> Your presence in Washington is needed! The finance ministers and >> international bureaucrats who shape the world economy to make the rich >> richer and the poor poorer need to know that Seattle was not just a bump on >> their road to global domination. What we asserted at the WTO must be >> repeated to the rulers of the global economy. We must make clear, again, >> that the peoples' movements of the world, will not stand idly by while those >> holding power continue to impoverish and oppress the majority of the world's >> peoples and ravage the earth's environment and resources while enriching >> themselves and corporations. >> >> Activists in the United States must insist - firmly and consistently, until >> the system is changed - that decisions about the fate of the planet and its >> peoples must not be made behind closed doors. >> >> The IMF and World Bank are in many ways the "parents" of the WTO; today, >> they form an "unholy trinity" to preserve corporate power and constrain the >> rights and opportunities of the majority of the world's people. Because of >> that, many of the groups that helped organize the victories in Seattle are >> already preparing for days of protest, education, training, and direct >> action during the week of April 9-16 in Washington. >> >> The week begins on Sunday, April 9th with a Jubilee 2000/USA mobilization >> for cancellation of the debts of African, Latin American, Asia-Pacific, and >> Caribbean countries, and continuing with teach-ins and trainings on the >> global economy. It will culminate with a MASSIVE RALLY AT IMF HEADQUARTERS >> ON SUNDAY, APRIL 16TH. >> >> * Save the dates! >> * Endorse the Call for Protests and Spread the Word! >> * Start organizing - how many people can you bring to >> Washington? >> * Educate yourself and others about the IMF >> and the >> World Bank >> * Visit <www.50years.org> for >> information >> >> For more information, contact the 50 Years is Enough Network (Washington DC) >> at 202-IMF-BANK or Global Exchange (San Francisco) at 415-558-9486, x. 254 >> >> >> >> >> vegetarian, nonviolence, consensus >> -Food Not Bombs List [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -distributing food in opposition to violence >> -archive: http://archive.foodnotbombs.ca >> -active cities: http://webcom.com/peace >> -send '(un)subscribe fnb-l' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------- >> To subscribe to The Florida Left List, send a message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Read messages you may have missed at >> http://www.egroups.com/group/floridaleft/ > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
