Friday 18 June 1999 London-UK
From: Parveez Syed
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Protests against free market bandits [NWO99977]
EDITORIAL by Parveez Syed (c) Shanti RTV news
LONDON-UK (SC/SRTV) Friday 18 June 1999 - More than ten thousand
protesters took to the streets of central London, England to
convey their message to financial speculators. A series of
largely peaceful demonstrations over a period of 24 hours was
aimed at morally and politically incorrect financial groups and
multinationals in many world capitals. The groups have advised
their employees not to wear designer labels as thousands of
caring humanitarians and activists from diverse groups and
movements around the world took part in an international day of
action aimed at the global economy.
"Most politicians still do not realise how much they are already
under the control of the money markets and even now ruled by
them," Dr Hans Tiemeyer, former chief of German Bundesbank and
now head of European Central Bank, said in 1996.
The protest was timed to coincide with the first day of the Group
of seven plus one (G7+1) summit of leaders of richest nations
meeting in Koln, Germany. The campaigners included trade union
members; women groups; students; unemployed; peace activists and
visible minorities "working together in recognition that greedy
fatcats, their employers or free market bandits are exploiting
poor people and the planet for the profit of a few," according
to one demonstrator in London, England. "The wealth of the
world's 447 billionaires exceeds the annual income of half of
the world's people (three billion). Seventy per cent of world
trade; eighty per cent of foreign investment and thirty per cent
of world GDP are controlled by 500 transnational corporations,"
he told Shanti RTV news agency. "These are not trivial issues.
The message is now spreading across the globe as billions realise
that their local struggles are part of a wider problem. They
require strategic, mission critical movements. Things have got
to change to help stop the decline to worse," he added.
The day of action included protests or demonstrations; street
parties; carnivals; pickets; strikes and blockades. Some
demonstrators clashed with British riot police force at the
London Stock Exchange building; 50 people were injured; 15 were
arrested; the rest demonstrated peacefully and dragged off by the
police. The mass media television outlets tried to keep the
peaceful picture off the screens, and only screened a few ugly
clashes.
"Our planet is controlled by a few financial centres or casinos -
mainly London, New York, Chicago and Frankfurt - where gamblers
buy and sell commodities or raw materials, currencies and
shares," according to another protestor. "The speculators gamble
on sweat, blood and lifes of billions of poverty-striken people
living in debt ridden third world and developing countries," she
told Shanti RTV news agency. "Greedy profiteers or fatcats are
the root cause of the world's social, economic and egological
problems. A path can be traced back to the gamblers and the
fatcats. They go about their uncaring and uncompassionate
business insulated from the harsh realities of poverty for which
they are responsible. The financial markets trive on instability
and turbulence, as higher the risk the quicker and faster the
profits for a few. The greedy globalisation is not about trade:
it is about power and control by financial services sectors and
superpower politicians. It is about altering the distribution
of income from inequitable to inhumane. From the poor to the
cafcats; World Bank; IMF; WTO," she added. "It took the New York
Stock Exchange (Dow Jones Industrial Average) - index, 66 years
to climb from 100 to 1,000 but only 16 years to reach 10,000,"
she explained wondering "who is paying the price for the sheer
greed? Do endless televised scenes of misery, suffering and
oppression give you urge to spend your remaining life trying to
make our world a better place for your future generations
regardless of race, gender, religion, colour, class or creed?"
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Presented by: Shanti RTV news (c) 18 June 1999 [NWO99977)
[The author, Parveez Syed, is an investigative journalist and a
mass media programming consultant. He has exposed many liars,
subverters and deceivers. Moles and whistleblowers e-mail leaks
and briefings to him. His copyrighted, unique features are often
developed into probing factual television documentaries. The
features are archived on thousands of websites worldwide]
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