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Their Payday - Stop The sale of Iraq

mark | 13.04.2004 11:09

Between 26-28 April, a business conference entitled 'Iraq Procurement 2004:
Meet the Buyers' - sponsored by Shell, ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, Enrinys,Raytheon
and others - will be taking place in Central London. It's their Payday -You are invited to protest this scandalous carve up and 'dine' with the mercanaries and oil barons along with 3 days of direct action.

Between 26-28 April, a business conference entitled 'Iraq Procurement 2004:
Meet the Buyers' - sponsored by Shell, ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, Raytheon
and others - will be taking place in Central London. In attendance will be
members of Iraq's Puppet Coalition Govt and Tony Blair's Special Representative on Trade
and Reconstruction Brian Wilson (who was recently in Washington pressing
for an expanded British role in the 'reconstruction' of Iraq).

This is an opportunity to highlight some of the issuesaround corporate war profiteering, the 'reconstruction rip-off' and the corporate invasion of Iraq.

Dine With Oil Barons And Mercenaries
27th April.
Central London. Venue TBA. 6:30pm onwards
Drinks and noise reception 7:00pm
Gala veggie Dinner, more noise and mock auction, 20.00pm

Guests of honour:- yourselves

There are 3 days of action and this is just one of the events happening. More info as updated.

British corporations finally get to bid for their slice of the great
Iraqi privatisation carve-up. 13-years of a genocidal sanctions regime
which banned all imports and exports from the country, including
essential parts for repairing infrastructure such as the electricity
system and water purification plants plus medicines, and sealing in the
fate of over 25 million people, over a million and a half of whom died,
most of them children, from preventable causes asa a result of the
embargo. The systematic wrecking of the Iraqi economy has primed it
perfect for a free market take-over and multinational privatisation
bonanza. Whilst the massacres continue all over Iraq, in particular in
Falluja, still reeling and grieving from its 600+ dead, the architects of
the occupation, their representatives and profiteers are meeting here in
the UK to discuss profit stakes and capital, money and power, whilst
ordinary Iraqi people are dying and slaving away for next to nothing and
live in the same poverty and state of terror from both the Occupation
and the un-elected stooges and the neo-Baathi managerial class it has
re-imposed on Iraqi workers.


We want Freedom, Self Determination and Justice for the Iraqi people.
Let's meet the buyers and let them know that their agenda serves nothing
but more bloodshed, misery, war and exploitation.


See  http://www.theirpayday.org

mark
- e-mail: info@theirpayday.org
- Homepage: http://www.theirpayday.org

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Excellent

13.04.2004 12:04

Great news, now we can start dividing up the pies while you lot stand outside in the rain whinning and shouting.

We are Marching, We are winning, Tomorrow belongs to us

Freedom Giver


Its that tedious fascist again

13.04.2004 12:49

You've got more in common with koala bears than you have with "freedom", mate, as your moronic parroting of Nazi slogans rather proves.

Regarding Iraq, I think that you'll find your mates will be too busy dodging AK fire and RPGs to divvy up any 'pies'.

People like you are frankly pathetic. And sexually inadequate as well, I shouldn't wonder.

Mad Monk


in that case

13.04.2004 16:02

In that case Mr Mad Monk how come we are running the country while you are not ?

Live with it, we're winning, you're losing. By all means keep on deluding yourselves it makes life so much easier for us. All this talk of a "Resistance" and "An Uprising" all helps to divert attention away from the real issue.

I would go as far as to say "Thanks - you are being a real help.

Freedom Giver


freedom giver

14.04.2004 09:08

..... why are you bothering with the "losers" - get out there and enjoy your "victory" man......

Most human beings can see that stealing someones country, and selling it off while you kill the kids and bomb mosques and hospitals is a very short-sighted action that will only create more suffering for everyone in the long run.

Run off and play with the big boys - we've got stuff to do!

freethepeeps
- Homepage: http://www.theirpayday.org


I THINK YOU'VE GONE A BIT WRONG...

19.04.2004 21:29

I'm all for protest where it's due [have reclaimed many a street and tried to stop the war], but i've looked at this and reckon you've got it a bit wrong. The buyers at this event are IRAQI people who need to get hold of essentials like medical kit, seeds, farming tools etc... it's not all about oil.

And most of the reconstruction isn't to repair war damage - it's to renew things like electricity and water supplies that have become run down due to 25 years of neglect. My uncle has farms in Iraq and he's coming to this conference to buy tractors. Please don't throw your pies or whatever at him. Thanks.

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