UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
Beirut Declaration Sept 2004. Assembly of Movements for Peace & Global Justice.
23-09-2004 02:32
Declaration of an international strategy meeting of anti-war and anti-globalisation movements in Beirut, Lebanon on 17-19 September 2004. Attended by hundreds of delegates. The Lebanese welcoming committee included Hizbullah, The Lebanese Communist Party, The Lebanese Socialist Party, Coordination of Domestic Associations and Al-Leqaa Club.STOP STEALING NATIVE LAND
22-09-2004 20:05
The BC Government and Delta Hotels are teaming up against the Secwepemc People and stealing their land and destroying their homes, cabins, forests and other sacred places/sybols.Inflationary Deflation or the Dominance of the Global Financial Markets
22-09-2004 17:53
"When real interests are above real growth rates of the GDP, debtors are structurally overstrained. The debt crisis of the 1980s and the financial crises of the past decade suggest that a kind of post-modern `plundering capitalism' is arising.. Liberalization of the financial markets allows the exercise of financial repression toward the public sector and the real economy.."Germany: Speaker of protests in Berlin arrests
22-09-2004 12:57
Gothenberg Trial Update
21-09-2004 16:18
Solidarity needed for Martin Block, a Dutch activist extradited to Sweeden to face trial for his aleged involvement in actions against the 2001 EU Summit in Gothnberg, Sweeden.Multi-lingual text follows. Please forward this information and act upon it!
Capital Logic on Trial
21-09-2004 16:10
"Rainer Roth in`The House of Cards' puts the mechanisms of the capitalist economy on trial.. To counter the long-term descent of the profit rates, the tax burden for businesses, a constant 21% from 1960 to 1980, has spiraled down to only 8% today.."Atkins: "BAYER Corp. benefits from risky diet"
20-09-2004 22:10
The Atkins diet, which allows unlimited consumption of protein and fat but drastically limits carbohydrates and does not restrict calories, has attracted millions of followers in the past few years. In the US 44 million people are either on a low-carb diet or watching their carb intake. As low-carb followers may lack vitamins and minerals, about 5 million Americans are taking supplements - a potentially giant market for food and pharmaceutical companies.Urgent Action Request on Colombian Assassination Plot
18-09-2004 13:06
On Thursday in Oxford Town Hall we heard the most extraordinary and chilling testimony from a man who lives under the threat of imminent death. Luis "Lucho" Hernandez is the President of the main trade union (SINTRAEMCALI) in Colombia's third city, Cali. At the end of August a plot was discovered to assassinate leading left politicians, human rights defenders and trade union leaders, a plot whose tentacles reach to the top of the Colombian government, as far as President Uribe himself. Lucho was one of the people listed for murder.In his speech to us, Lucho Hernandez did not dwell on the threat to himself, but gave a riveting account of the background reasons for the assassinations of over 3,500 trade union leaders in Colombia in the last 15 years. He sketched out graphically the reasons for this violence - the ruthless IMF/WTO-prescribed privatisation of the Colombian economy, which can only be carried out by killing the opposition to it. The British government is Colombia's second biggest donor of military aid after the US, and Tony Blair one of President Uribe's strongest supporters.
The document below is a necessarily detailed account that gives incontrovertible proof of this most recent assassination plan, and the imminent threat to the lives of a number of named individuals, including Lucho. Please read it and please act with the greatest urgency.
Netherlands/Sweden: Solidarity for Maarten 23.9
17-09-2004 15:46
Maarten was extradited to Sweden on 1st of September and is now in jail waiting for the trial. If you are interested to show solidarity to Maarten and other Gothenburg prisoners in your town, contact the support group: 00-31(0)6-42356735, e-mail:
info@steunmaarten.org Invading Iran: not if but when?
16-09-2004 22:13
London arms protest on UN International day of Peace
16-09-2004 14:36
On the United Nation's Day of Peace (Tue. Sept. 2004) come to a peaceful protest about British arms exports.Over a hundred people are expected to assemble at the Government's Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO), Bury Place, London, WC1A to protest at the continuing Government promotion of arm sales abroad on Tuesday 21 September 2004 at 11 am. The crowd will move-off and reassemble at Downing Street at about 12.30 p.m. to hand-in a petition of more than five thousand signatures and nine hundred postcards calling for the closure of DESO. The event will end at about 1 p.m.
ESF and Business summit!
16-09-2004 13:49
Hi,you might be interested to know (in case you don't) that there is a business summit "international leaders summit" in london on the 18-19 october.
http://www.leadersinlondon.com/ As the world social forum was organised in response to the World Economic forum, this might be a good opportunity to make our voices heard!
Any protests organised yet?
Mat
Green Street Market: All activists to Newham
16-09-2004 10:11
Green Street Market threatened with drastic and destructive 'relocation', to be replaced by a supermarket. Call for activist participation to prevent this important cheap market that serves the population of London, providing cheap fresh food at prices everybody can afford, from closure or drastic reduction.US Expert Sees Danger of World Recession: C. Fred Bergsten
15-09-2004 18:55
"The new administration elected in November 2004 must systematically reduce the deficits. Otherwise an inflation threatens. America within the next two years could lead into a recession.."Hungry for Justice? Come to this conference!
15-09-2004 17:22
Hungry for Justice: Power, sovereignty and people - A conference on achievingworld food justice
Saturday 9th October 2004
10 am to 4.15 pm
Quaker Meeting House
St. James' Street
Sheffield City Centre
IRAQ: POVERTY 7 PARK LIFE
14-09-2004 10:30
G8 'Make Poverty History' NGO Campaign hits Press
14-09-2004 02:59
The 'Make Poverty History' campaign by the 'trade justice' NGOs has hit the press: http://www.makepovertyhistory.org
Blair impeachment letter to MP - what do we have to lose by remaining silent?
13-09-2004 17:04
www.impeachblair.org -try it, you might like it.