----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia K White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 4:43 AM Subject: [STOPNATO] IMF PROTEST: PRAGUE AUTUMN, The Netherlands [fwd] STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:40:14 From: "Main Line News (c) 2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:50:52 From: Herman de Tollenaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! Send to as many people as possible !!! STOP IMF AND WORLDBANK - GET ON THE BUS TO PRAGUE On the 26th of September 2000, 20.000 bankers and government delegations will come to Prague for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. From all across Europe people will come to Prague to demonstrate against this meeting. The IMF and the World Bank are responsible for huge suffering in the world. These are the organisations which force the Third World to pay a 900 billion US dollar debt to Westerns bankers and governments. These are the organisations which forced so called 'Structural Adjustment Programs' onto the governments in South East Asia after the crisis hit those countries in 1997, i.e. large scale privatisation, huge cut programs on education and health care, mass sacking, lowering of the minimum wage and the restriction of union rights. Also the environment is placed at risk: more than 55 percent of the subsidies on energy from the World Bank is spent on oil, gas and coal projects (thus supporting big multinationals); less than 3 per cent is meant for projects involving green energy. The use of fossil energy is the single largest cause of the climate change. We live in a world in which wealth has increased enormously the past two decades. But the three richest persons in this world own just as much as the 48 poorest countries; 1.2 billion people in this world have to survive on less than 1 dollar a day; every year 17 million children die of curable diseases. The past twenty years, the gap between the richest and the poorest countries has become increasingly bigger. But not only the gap between the richest and the poorest countries; according to UNICEF, one out of six children in the rich West itself lives in poverty. Wages have been increasing little more than the level of correction of inflation. On the other hand, stock profits and management salaries have been booming like never before. The IMF and the World Bank want a world in which inequality is bigger, in stead of smaller; in which profit for a small minority means lower wages, worse working conditions and less power for the unions for the large majority; in which there is no room for a healthy environment. The decisions being made by the IMF and the World Bank and the totally uncontrollable and undemocratic way in which they make them, have provoked mass protest over the last few months. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Seattle last November and against the IMF and Worldbank in Washington DC in April. Prague offers the opportunity of bringing the anti-capitalist mood to the heart of Europe. Just as in all other countries in Europe we have to go to Prague with as many people as possible and protest in Holland as well. Then we have the opportunity to show Holland and the rest of the world that the IMF and the World Bank cannot make their decisions just like that. Then we have the chance of repeating the success of Seattle and shutting down their meeting. Platform Praagse Herfst (Prague Autumn) organises bus transport to Prague - both to the whole actionweek (21-28 September) as to S26, the mass demonstration on the 26th. Join us now! RESERVATIONS For a seat on the bus to the whole action week from 21 to 28 September (leaving on 20 and coming back on 29 September) you can contact Donald through: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - a busticket will cost you between 150 to 175 guilders, this is without food or a place to stay. For a seat on the bus to S26, the demonstrations on 26 September (leaving on 25 and coming back on 27 September) you can give Nikita a call through: 06-26148827 or contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - a busticket will cost you 125 guilders. Praagse Herfst is a coalition of (amongst others): ASEED Europe, Infocentrum Wageningen, Internationale Socialisten, Groenfront!, Anti-oorlogscomiti Leiden, Solidariteit, SAP and members of Dwars, Milieudefensie and the Haags Vredesplatform. Do you want to join the platform or want more information? Please contact us through: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From 9 to 26 September Platform Stank Voor Bank organises activities in Holland against the role of Dutch banks in the strangling politics of IMF and World Bank. For more information you can contact Stank Voor Bank through: Postbus 2228 / 2301 CE Leiden or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLATFORM PRAAGSE HERFST Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes, --------------------------------------------------------------------- Herman de Tollenaere --------------------------------------------------------------------- My Internet site on Asian history and "new" religions: http://homes.dsl.nl/~hermantl/ See also SIMPOS, information on occult tendencies' impact on society: http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/simpoeng.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- End Forwarded Message --------- xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox Claudia White~Main Line News~Human & Civil Rights Campaign Internationale' Free Mumia Abu Jamal~Free All Political Prisoners~End the Drug War!Stop the US Bombing of Vieques & Global Genocide of Indigenous Peoples. 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