Dear friend,
Following is a call to action to protest George W Bush's visit to Australia.
Please consider endorsing this call and urging your local peace
group/union/community organisation to consider endorsing the call
also.
You can add your endorsement by emailing the Stop the War Coalition
at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or by phoning: Brian 0425-347-634;
Nick 0409-762-929; Rihab 0405-760-929; Bashir 0413-859-060.
A special meeting of all those interested in building the biggest
possible mobilisation against Bush will be held this Monday September
15, 7pm, Level 3, Spanish Club, 88 Liverpool Street (near the corner
of George Street).
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Call to action against George Bush's visit to Australia
Sydney, Australia, 9 September 2003
George Bush is coming to Australia to promote his never-ending war
and free trade agenda.
The Sydney Stop the War Coalition calls for all organisations and
individuals who have stood against the US government's drive to war
and to global economic domination to protest Bush's visit.
George Bush will be visiting Canberra and Sydney immediately
following the APEC summit to be held on 21 October in Bangkok,
Thailand.
The coalition of the killing - Bush, Blair and Howard - waged an illegal
and immoral war on Iraq despite unprecedented global opposition and
protests.
The lies behind this war are now being exposed. Despite Bush's talk
of "liberation" the invasion of Iraq has become a war of occupation,
with US forces bogged down in ongoing battles with the Iraqi people.
US corporations have re-entered Iraq to carve up the spoils of war.
Bush is not content to stop at Afghanistan and Iraq. He is
threatening further nations, such as North Korea, Iran and Syria with
military action.
In the wake of the war Prime Minister John Howard hopes to secure a
Free Trade Agreement with the United States. This will be his trophy
for supporting war on Iraq.
The FTA will "lock in" a neo-liberal agenda which gives corporations
greater rights. This bilateral deal is modelled on the North American
FTA where companies now have the right to sue governments for
introducing environmental, labour or other regulations. The FTA
threatens the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, quarantine laws, GM
labelling and public assets.
Bush's visit coincides with a round of trade negotiations planned for
27 October in Canberra.
For these reasons and many more we are saying enough! We demand an
immediate end to the occupation of Iraq and oppose the proposed FTA.
We call for those who mobilised against Howard and Bush in February
to do so again.
The Sydney Stop the War Coalition invites all concerned organisations
to attend an open meeting to coordinate the biggest possible
mobilisation on Monday September 15, 7pm, Level 3, Spanish Club, 88
Liverpool Street (near the corner of George Street). We also urge
other activists to start planning now to mobilise from their cities
and towns to come to Sydney and/or Canberra.
Another world is possible. A world without war, where people come
before profit.
STOP BUSH
TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ
DERAIL THE FTA
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Contact: Brian 0425-347-634; Nick 0409-762-929; Rihab 0405-760-929;
Bashir 0413-859-060
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