Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:54:36 -0400 From: Robert Weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobilization for Global Justice -- Call to Action The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank will hold their Joint Annual General Meetings in Washington, DC from September 28 to October 4, 2001. We call on people from all over the world to come to Washington to expose the illegitimacy of these institutions, to stand in solidarity with peoples in the global south, and to claim our right to determine our future and the course of the world economy. A 10-day convergence filled with teach-ins, workshops, trainings and actions begins on September 23rd. GLOBALIZE JUSTICE ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE! If you are saddened by polluted land, water, and air If you have grown weary of representatives that do not represent and institutions that do not serve people If your heart has grown heavy in the face of distinctions based on power over others - sexism, racism, classism, homophobia If you are dismayed with participation in a system that brings untold wealth to the doorsteps of a few by stealing bread from the tables of many If you are appalled by excuses that place profits before the lives of millions of people living with HIV If you know in your heart and mind that a just and nonviolent world is possible, and you want to help create it JOIN US IN WASHINGTON We call upon all people concerned for justice in their communities to join with others around the world in shaping a different globalization: a globalization of our rights to life, to speech, to thought, to religion, to assembly, to a clean environment, to food and medication, to freedom from fear and freedom from poverty. We stand for the rights indigenous peoples, of women, of people with HIV, affordable health care, strong labor rights and social and economic policies that put people before profits. This is not the globalization being forced upon us. To that other globalization--the globalization of greed--we stand chanting: Another World Is Possible. The IMF and the World Bank meetings in Washington are the most significant gathering of the proponents of corporate-led globalization in the U.S. in 2001. It is imperative that supporters of global economic justice send a clear message: the movement for global justice continues to grow, and will not stand for continuing efforts by these institutions and the G-8 governments to structure the world for the benefit of corporations and the wealthy and to deny basic justice to the majority of the world's people. We demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund: * Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public. * Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources. * End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and economic austerity programs.) * Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people. We furthermore demand that the United States government, the largest shareholder and most influential government in the World Bank and IMF, adopt the above demands, and work vigorously to compel the World Bank and IMF to implement them. CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE For more information, or to endorse the Mobilization for Global Justice, go to www.globalizethis.org _______________________________________________ stop-imf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/stop-imf To subscribe or unsubscribe by e-mail, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with your administrative request in the subject line ----- Fin de message retransmis ----- Luis Gonzalez-Mestres http://www.multimania.com/virtuel2 http://www.ifrance.com/achp http://club.voila.fr/do/info/controle_omc > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Voila Club : Listes de diffusion GRATUITES : http://club.voila.fr > > Desinscription: envoyez un message a: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
