From: Viviane Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The World Economic Forum in Melbourne
Date: Sun, 23 April 2000
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A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
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ATTENTION TO A16 ACTIVISTS AROUND THE WORLD:
SEPTEMBER 11th, 2000 - STAND UP FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
-> SHUT DOWN THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM!
In September the World Economic Forum will hold the Asia-Pacific Economic
Summit, "Asia/Pacific in the 21st Century: Leveraging the new drivers of
growth." The summit is jointly sponsored by the Business Council of
Australia and the Australian Davos Connection (the Australian arm of the
World Economic Forum) and will take place at the Crown Casino, Melbourne,
over September 11-13. Participants are being lured to the summit with
opportunity to "meet key leaders from business, politics and academia at
a time when the eyes of the world will be fixed on Australia, and they
may coordinate their participation in the Summit with the Olympic Games."
At Seattle last year, and Davos in February this year, and now at the a16
mobilisation for global justice in Washington, coalitions of trade
unions, environmentalists and human rights activists have protested the
global aims of the rich and powerful. In September this year such protests
will continue.
The S11 Alliance is a coalition of unionists, environmentalists, students,
human rights activists and community campaigners. Join us in organising
the mass rally for global justice and the environment this September.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION! THE OLYMPIC YEAR OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY
TO DRAW THE MEDIA'S ATTENTION TO THE REAL PURPOSES OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC
FORUM WHILE THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING AUSTRALIA.
SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2000
We ask our international friends for help, support, advice, and
solidarity. We are in the midst of a global movement against the
unelected global powers.
In solidarity,
-the s11 alliance
rsvp:
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From: Viviane Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The World Economic Forum in Melbourne
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000
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A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
http://www.ainfos.ca/
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In September the World Economic Forum will hold the Asia-Pacific Economic
Summit, "Asia/Pacific in the 21st Century: Leveraging the new drivers of
growth", in Melbourne. The Summit is jointly sponsored by the Business
Council of Australia and the Australian Davos Connection (the Australian
arm of the World Economic Forum) and will take place at the Crown Casino,
September 11-13. Participants are being lured to the summit with opportunity
to "meet key leaders from business, politics and academia at a time when
the eyes of the world will be fixed on Australia, and they may coordinate
their participation in the Summit with the Olympic Games."
The World Economic Forum is an organisation made up of the richest global
companies. For the past thirty years it has held regular summits and
meetings aimed at "managing globalisation. Every February inthe Swiss
mountain resort town of Davos, over a thousand of the worlds CEO's meet
along with a restricted list of politicians, academics and influential
media who are invited along. Discussions range from how to manage the
Asian economic crisis to surfing the internet revolution all with the aim
of extending market and corporate power.
Like the World Trade Organisation the world economic forum is a means of
promoting global policies aimed at weakening labour, removing
environmental protection and intensifying the transfer of wealth from the
poor to the rich.
At Seattle last year and Davos in February this year, coalitions of trade
unions, environmentalists and human rights activists protested the global
aims of the rich and powerful. In September this year such protest will
continue.
To ensure that we are able to organise a successful protest of the
neo-liberal policies promoted by the World Economic Forum we need to be
organised. You or any organisation should be involved in ensuring an
alternative to the policies of global elites is heard.
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