Best wishes and good luck to all of you Ravi. In solidarity!
c-da At 8:45 PM +0100 4/29/06, Ravindra Nath wrote: >Call for May 5 2006 as Global Day of Protest against ADB! > >We are the Peoples� Forum against ADB >(PFAADB), an alliance of 97 social movements, >struggle groups and NGOs from across Asia. > >We write to you from the city of Hyderabad in >India where thousands are beginning to converge >to protest the Asian Development Banks 39th AGM >(3-6 May 2006). As we issue this appeal to our >friends across the globe, hundreds of activists >from remote areas in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, >Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram and from >Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Tamil >Nadu, Jharkand, Kerala, West Bengal, Rajastan, >Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh are on buses >and trains on route to this city. Groups from >Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh, >Nepal, Cambodia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, >Indonesia, Australia, Japan and Burma have >already joined us. In Hyderabad, street corner >meetings have begun to convey our message to the >people. > >The Peoples' Forum is calling on all people�s >movements and civil society groups to observe 5 >May 2006 as the Global Day of Protest against >the Asian Development Bank, when ADB Governors >will officially inaugurate the Annual Meeting. > >Every year, ADB moves huge amounts of money >across the Asia-Pacific region in a bid to >foster rapid economic growth and market >capitalism. Despite its name and stated >intentions, the ADB does not serve to alleviate >poverty. Instead, it advances capitalist and >corporate interests, serves the will of powerful >countries such as Japan and U.S. and other >expansionist nations, and excludes poor and >marginalised peoples from control over their >resources. It is an undemocratic, >non-transparent and unaccountable institution. > >Join >us! > > >On May 5, we will be taking out a massive march >and protest against the ADB in Hyderabad, India. >For those of you unable to join us here in >Hyderabad, you can show your solidarity and >worldwide opposition to the ADB by holding >various actions in your own states, provinces, >cities, towns, taluks and villages. > >You can > > - Hold a protest demonstration > - Submit a memorandum to the local, regional and national > government > - Submit a memorandum to the local ADB office/ project > offics > - Raise slogans > - Send us a solidarity message > >Some of the slogans that you can use: > > ADB: HANDS OFF > Our Water, Our Health, Our Forests > Our Livelihood, Our Environment, Our Culture > > ADB QUIT INDIA! QUIT ASIA! > > SHUTDOWN THE BANK > > ADB: 40 YEARS IS ENOUGH > >Please get in touch with us at >[EMAIL PROTECTED] for any information. >You can download posters and read more about us >at www.asianpeoplesforum.net > >Ravindra Nath >River Basin Friends >AKAJAN >District-Dhemaji.787059. >Assam. India > >PS: >Please distribute this message widely - to friends, >media and listservs. > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > ><*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/ > ><*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ><*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
