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Subject: [mobilize-globally] Protests at G20 Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey
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[StopWTORound] Protests at G20 Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey
Date:
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 23:28:39 -0800
From:
"Selim YILMAZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hello friends,
G20s' Assistants of Finance Ministers and Assistants of Central Bank
Gouvernors
gathered in Istanbul on 18th and 19th (today) February. During
todays's session in
Hotel Hyatt Regency about 60-70 anarchist activists organised a (quite
short)
demonstration in front of Hotel and protested the meeting, G20s and
capitalist
system. Their slogans written on banners were "Capitalism kills",
"Graft 20" and so
on. 40 of them were arrested by security forces and all activists
faced a very
strong police violent.
Furthermore, our group prepared and published a public announcement in
the early of
last week to inform public opinion that G20s would be held in Istanbul
to discuss
their positions for the next WTO Ministerial Conferance in Doha. The
English version
of this announcement is as follows.
By Gaye Yilmaz
TO THE PUBLIC OPINION
Assistants of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Gouvernors of G20
platform which is
one of several global and regional blocks and also has a engine role
for the
globalisation of capitalist system will come together in their first
meeting in this
year in ?stanbul on 18th and 19th February 2001.
Turkey will be represented on the level of Treasury Undersecretary at
the meeting.
Some important topics of their agenda are
- to take steps in order to take decisions on national and
international levels to
minimise the negative impacts of globalisation and to ensure that all
sides can
benefit from globalisation (win-win process) and
- to determine the new steps which is needed to push international
trade ???
As it could be understood from the agenda, these topics are very
important and could
be dangerous for the future of workers and other poor groups in
developing
countries.
However, all we know that on the back side of this picture there are
huge interests
of local bourgeois of G20 countries. The cost of these interests will
be paid by
peoples of these developing countries. There is no doubt that in Doha,
they will
agree on the lowest standards for worker class with developed G7s. To
sum up; all
people around the world will be witness a new show and similar
explanations will
follow each other : " We did our best, but developing countries want
to attract
foreign investors to their regions- who are very rightful- and it's
therefore they
don't accept to implement social and environmental standards"
The decisons which will be associated with this anti-labour agenda
like in Seattle,
Davos, Prag and Nice will be passed from Great National Assembly of
Turkey without
any discussion or objection thanks to "fast track" which was adopted
on 9th February
2001.
No doubt that the implementation of these decisions will be controlled
and followed
by the IMF and World Bank.
Working Group Against MAI and Globalisation - TURKEY
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