DAY SCHOOL ON PROXY WARS IN AFRICA
After Iraq, the US intends to get at least one-quarter of its oil from
Africa
After Iraq, the US intends to get at least one-quarter of its oil from
Africa
African Liberation Support Campaign Network (ALISC-Network)
Hackney Stop The War Coalition
DAY SCHOOL ON PROXY WARS IN AFRICA
After Iraq, the US intends to get at least one-quarter of its oil from
Africa
Saturday 15 May 2004
from 2pm to 6pm
Social from 6pm to 7pm
PROGRAMME
* Welcome: Hackney Stop The War Coalition and ALISC-Network
* Opening: Jeremy Corbyn MP (Lab), Islington North
* The link between the invasion and occupation of Iraq and the proxy
wars in
Africa: Explo Nani-Kofi, ALISC-Network and Stop The War Steering
Committee
* A programme of action: Eki Gbinigie and Odarquaye Lamptey,
ALISC-Network
Dalston Methodist Centre, 11 Richmond Road, London E8 3HY
Train (North London line): Dalston-Kingsland.
Buses: 30,38, 56, 242, 277.
Entrance: Free. All welcome
Contact: Louise 07771 650915,
nkexplo@yahoo.co.uk A WHOLE CONTINENT AT WAR?
* Two thirds of the African continent (52 countries) has been at war
during
the last five years. These include civil wars and wars between
countries.
* In the west there is very little news about war-torn Africa. Some
people
here will know about the wars in the Sudan and the Congo. But what
about the
20 year war in Uganda and war in Ivory Coast?
WHOSE WARS?
* All these wars are fuelled by western governments, banks and
companies.
They sell arms to governing elites and other elite factions in Africa
on a
’willing buyer willing seller’ basis. They compete with each other to
steal
Africa’s huge mineral, forestry and agricultural wealth.
* The elites in Africa, who have bank accounts in the west, do deals
with
western governments and multinational companies.
PROXY WARS
* The wars in Africa are PROXY WARS. The rich countries, mostly in the
west,
don’t go to war with each other. Instead, companies, banks and the
governments of these countries encourage Africans to go to war. Elites
in
Africa have sold the power to make and implement decisions to these
warmongers.
* Meanwhile the warmongers get richer and richer.
WHO CONTROLS AFRICA?
* The IMF and World Bank already rob Africans and make the majority
poor in
the name of ‘debt collection’ on ‘loans’.
* This situation is made worse by war. The youth are caught up in the
fighting, normal work to grow food is impossible, and many people have
to
leave their homes and escape to neighbouring countries. Democracy is
impossible.
AFRICAN LIBERATION SUPPORT CAMPAIGN NETWORK
ALISC-Network is UK based and primarily provides support to social
move-ments across Africa, for example the Landless People’s Movement in
South Africa. ALISC-Network is African led. Email:
nkexplo@yahoo.co.uk. HACKNEY STOP THE WAR COALITION
Holds regular public meetings and street stalls, produces an email
bulletin
and promotes anti-war events. Open meetings on the first and third
Monday of
each month, 7.30pm to 9pm, Halkevi Turkish/Kurdish Community Centre,
96-100
Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XB. Email:
hackney@stopwar.org.uk
