Contact: Dr. Vineeta Gupta, Stop HIV/AIDS in India Initiative
202-538-1069, <mailto:vineeta at shaii.org>
or
Basav Sen, Mobilization for Global Justice
202-997-0479, basav at igc.org
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World Bank, Pentagon to Marry: Links Between War and Privatization
Common Struggle in the Global South: India, Afghanistan, Africa or Iraq
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You are cordially invited to wedding ceremony of the
World Bank
and
Pentagon
Rev. Paul Wolfowitz of the Market Fundamentalism Discipline will perform the wedding
on
Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 12:00 Noon
Venue: Opposite World Bank, Murrow Park, 18th and H St. NW, Washington DC
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The World Bank and the Pentagon are getting married on Thursday, September 22, after a long engagement. The ceremony will be brief, because Pentagon needs to get back to his assignment of securing Iraqi assets for privatization, and World Bank is on her way to Niger and Mali in West Africa on a critical mission to cause famine.
The happy couple is accepting gifts of Haitian sweatshop labor; Iraqi oil; Guatemalan gold; odious debt repayments from Congo, Indonesia, and elsewhere; and revenues from health care privatization. High levels of collateral damage sustained from the extraction of the gifts, such as civilians shot dead at checkpoints, children dying of preventable diseases, or HIV/AIDS rendering infants parentless are inevitable and should not deter the guests from gift purchases. In lieu of gifts, you can make charitable contributions of contracts to Halliburton, Bechtel, Enron, Monsanto, and other charitable organizations whom the bride and groom have served for decades.
Different tools are used by the market forces to open up the economies of the global south for exploitation. It may be war in Afghanistan, or economic needs to build debt pressure in Africa and Asia, but the goal remains same: paving way for multinationals to take over the economy of the countries. The need is to draw links and forge a collective struggle against socio-economic injustice. Advocacy efforts of the Stop HIV/AIDS in India Initiative (SHAII) include challenging international policies (U.S, multi-lateral institutions and international funding agencies) and Indian policies that have impact on health care, and HIV/AIDS in India.
SHAII * 1413 K Street, 4th Floor * Washington, D.C. 20005 * <http://www.shaii.org/>