| Feb. 15 is D- (Demonstration)
Day
By Zarina Geloo
The Global Resistance Movement has designated Feb. 15 as
the day for another round of worldwide demonstrations against
the war on Iraq.
Nancy Lindisfarne said demonstrations were being planned
in 30 countries to coincide with the staging of the G-8 summit
in Evian, France in June, the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
summit in Cancun, Mexico in September and the Free Trade Area
of the Americas (FTAA), in Miami, United States in October.
She said the US intention to launch a war on Iraq was a great
threat to the world. “We are calling on all social movements
to support, participate in and organise worldwide protests
on Feb. 15 against the war on Iraq.”
During the Jun. 1-3, G-8 summit the social movement will
stage its own alternative summit and a huge international
demonstration. During the FTAA and WTO meetings, the movement
will organise huge demonstrations at the meeting sites.
She said the social movement was meeting at the WSF in the
shadow of a global crisis. Neo liberalisation itself was in
crisis, the threat of global recession was ever present, and
social and economic inequalities were growing. Biodiversity,
air, water, forest, soil and sea were for sale, threatening
the common future.
Multinationals were using the WTO, the FTAA and a proliferation
of regional and bilateral trade agreements to promote their
interests, dominate and control economies and impose a development
model which impoverished people, she added.
“We will campaign to stop and reverse the liberalisation
of agriculture, water, energy, public service and investment,
and to reassert people’s sovereignty over their societies,
their resources, culture, knowledge and economies.”
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