From: matt aber-towns (maber-towns@care2.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 17:02:49 EDT
--CALL TO ACTION--PLEASE FORWARD--CALL TO ACTION-
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Preliminary call to action as consensed to by
the Mobilization for Global
Justice on 7/2/02
[Please ignore all other versions]
Resist the IMF/WB policies and military
apparatus and help create a space
for dissentWashington D.C., Sept./Oct., 2002
Come demonstrate, dance, make music, and resist
with tens of thousands of
people in the streets of Washington D.C. to
denounce the exploitative and
unsustainable policies of the International
Monetary Fund and World Bank.
This will be a major mobilization where success
will be determined by the
breadth of our presence and the depth of our
coalition. Please forward
this call to individuals and organizations
concerned with the injustice of
concentrated wealth, exploitation of labor,
militarism and criminal
neglect for the earth and living creatures.
Schedule of associated IMF/WB meetings and
approximate dates of protests
and educational events surrounding the meetings
of 9/28 through 10/4."
Sat. Sept. 28: G7 Finance Ministers meeting and
the G24 (larger developing
countries)Sun. Sept 29: International Monetary &
Financial CommitteeMon.
Sept 30: Joint Development Committee of the
IMF/WBTues. Oct. 1 & 2:
Official Meetings
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.
Please refer to MGJ's <www.globalizethis.org>
page for further info and
organizing progress.
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