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<A title=inciteinsight@hotmail.com
href="mailto:inciteinsight@hotmail.com">Sean Johnson Andrews</A> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica LT" size=2>I would also mention that ANSWER isn't
the only group organizing for tomorrow. In fact,I think the day was
originally chosen by a local group called Mobilization for Global Justice, a
group that usually organizes marches in Sept. around the IMF/World Bank
meetings, which are also this weekend. That's where I heard about the
marches first.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Indeed, as you pass 17th and Penn, please give a
big LBO salute to the Bretton Woods Institutions' annual meetings. Inside, the
SA finance minister Trevor Manuel - who at the spring meetings called Wolfowitz
a 'wonderful individual' - will be chairing the Development Committee, which
once again will not do anything on the WB's democratisation. Not that a
rejigging of quotas would mean anything. The movement to shut the WB/IMF down by
defunding it continues apace (<A
href="http://www.worldbankboycott.org">http://www.worldbankboycott.org</A>),
with a big conference next week in Havana where Latin American movements will be
ratcheting up the pressure on the many silly Washington/London NGOs who still
dance with the BWIs. For those in Washington, some excellent side-movement
propaganda:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Two good global eco-social justice
connections.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Contacts:
<BR>Basav Sen :: 202 997 0479 / </FONT><A href="mailto:basav@igc.org"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>basav@igc.org</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hope Chu :: 303 667 6613 / </FONT><A
href="mailto:hope@50years.org"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>hope@50years.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> <BR>Tia
Swett :: 202 360 0027 / </FONT><A href="mailto:swettalthea@yahoo.com"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>swettalthea@yahoo.com</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> <BR><BR>Theatrical March to Protest IMF and World
Bank Annual <BR>Meetings<BR>Demonstrators Link Global Economic Policies, Iraq
War<BR><BR>Washington DC activist group Mobilization for Global <BR>Justice
(MGJ) is planning a theatrical, colorful march and <BR>rally to protest the
annual meetings of the International <BR>Monetary Fund (IMF) and World
Bank.<BR><BR>WHAT: GLOBAL JUSTICE FEEDER MARCH AND RALLY<BR>WHEN: Saturday,
September 24, 2005. Rally starts at 11:30 <BR>a.m., March steps off at 12:30
pm.<BR>WHERE: Rally in Dupont Circle, March to join the anti-war
<BR>march.<BR>Speakers in Dupont include: <BR>?Victor Geronimo - lawyer,
journalist and labor organizer <BR>from the Dominican Republic;<BR>?Fr. Thomas
Kocherry - priest and activist working with <BR>tsunami survivors from
India;<BR>?Nompumelelo Magwaza - youth organizer and poet from South
<BR>Africa;<BR>?Brian Anders - Empower DC, a low-income peoples?
<BR>organization working for affordable housing and childcare <BR>in
DC.<BR><BR>With anti-war demonstrations in Washington DC taking place <BR>during
the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank, and <BR>a key architect of the
Iraq war, Paul Wolfowitz, at the <BR>helm of the World Bank, the time is right
to cast the <BR>spotlight on the connections between militaristic US <BR>foreign
policy and the global economic policies of the IMF <BR>and World Bank, which are
inextricably intertwined.<BR><BR>"The US is using Iraq as a laboratory for its
destructive <BR>neoliberal economic agenda - which The Economist called <BR>?the
wish-list of foreign investors' - which reduces <BR>impoverished countries to
providers of resources and cheap <BR>labor for multinational corporations," said
MGJ <BR>spokesperson Hope Chu, "The Coalition Provisional <BR>Authority (CPA),
the occupying U.S. administration prior <BR>to the Iraqi elections, decreed the
privatization of all <BR>state enterprises and the elimination of all trade
<BR>barriers." The CPA also facilitated the entry of the World <BR>Bank and IMF
into Iraq. Today, these institutions want to <BR>end food and fuel subsidies,
which are a lifeline for poor <BR>Iraqis. The beneficiaries are multinational
corporations, <BR>who can sell their goods freely in Iraq and take over
<BR>formerly state-owned industries.<BR><BR>The policies imposed by the US in
Iraq are identical to <BR>the policies imposed by the World Bank and IMF on
<BR>borrowing countries, notes Catherine Benedict, an activist <BR>with MGJ:
"From privatizing water in Ghana with no regard <BR>for poor people?s access to
clean water, to forcing open <BR>Haiti?s market for rice resulting in the
further <BR>impoverishment of poor farmers, to eliminating subsidized <BR>food
distribution in India, the World Bank and IMF <BR>facilitate corporate
exploitation of poor countries. The <BR>goals and results of illegitimate US
military <BR>interventions, and of the equally illegitimate global <BR>economic
system enforced by the IMF and World Bank, are <BR>very closely
related."<BR><BR>On September 24, the Mobilization for Global Justice will
<BR>protest the corrupt global system created and sustained by <BR>the U.S.
government, the IMF, and World Bank, which <BR>concentrates economic and
military power in a few <BR>countries and whose agents run riot across the
globe, <BR>extracting essential resources, exacerbating climate <BR>change, and
impoverishing the majority of humanity. </FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 23, 2005<BR><BR>Joint Release: Global Justice Ecology Project
and 50 <BR>Years Is Enough Network<BR><BR>CONTACT: Anne Petermann, Global
Justice Ecology <BR>Project-mobile 802.578.0477<BR>
Sameer Dossani, 50 Years Is Enough Network-mobile <BR>202.340.0216
<BR><BR>Protests Planned for DC as Hurricane Advances Toward Coast<BR>Iraq War,
Global Warming Induced Hurricanes and World Bank
<BR>Linked<BR><BR><BR>Washington, DC--Tens of thousands of demonstrators are
<BR>expected to descend on the nation's capitol this weekend <BR>to protest the
Iraq War. Protests are also planned for <BR>the World Bank, which is
holding its annual fall meetings. <BR> More and more people are beginning
to connect global <BR>warming to the war and to the World Bank as a second
<BR>massive storm prepares to pound another U.S. coastal area.<BR><BR>"What we
have in Iraq is a war for oil to fuel an economy <BR>that depends on more and
more oil as fossil fuel-driven <BR>global warming intensifies," stated Anne
Petermann, <BR>co-Director of Global Justice Ecology Project. "This is
<BR>an untenable situation-one that people in the U.S. and the <BR>world must
start to address," she continued.<BR><BR>Climatologists are coming to consensus
that the increased <BR>severity of storms, as witnessed in Katrina and now Rita,
<BR>is a direct result of the global warming-induced rise in <BR>the temperature
of ocean water. Continued increases in <BR>fossil fuel emissions, they
warn, will lead to more and <BR>increasingly severe weather-including droughts,
floods, <BR>hurricanes, blizzards. The United Nations estimates that <BR>global
warming related catastrophes have claimed over <BR>500,000 lives in the last
decade alone. <BR><BR>The World Bank will be meeting this weekend in Washington,
<BR>DC and one of the items on their agenda is global warming. <BR> The G-8
meetings in Scotland this summer put the World <BR>Bank in charge of identifying
solutions to global warming. <BR>"The World Bank is probably the agency most
responsible <BR>for developing fossil fuels in the world. They have
<BR>ignored the recommendations of their own Extractive <BR>Industries Review to
get out of fossil fuel development, <BR>and now the G-8 wants to put them in
charge of finding <BR>'solutions' to global warming? It's ludicrous," said
<BR>Sameer Dossani, Director of 50 Years Is Enough Network.<BR><BR>Paul
Wolfowitz, the architect of the Iraq war, is the new <BR>head of the World Bank,
which spent $28 billion since 1992 <BR>on developing fossil fuels, 80% of which
was exported to <BR>G-8 countries. "Essentially, the World Bank wants to
make <BR>money from causing global warming and then they want to <BR>make even
more money as the world's broker in the trading <BR>of fossil fuel
emissions. It's incredibly cynical," 50 <BR>Years Is Enough Network's
Dossani added.<BR><BR>Climatologists warn that the devastation that has occurred
<BR>on the Gulf Coast is just the tip of the iceberg. We have <BR>only
seen a one degree rise in the temperature of the <BR>world's oceans at this
point, where a three to five degree <BR>rise is predicted by the end of the
century, leading some <BR>to argue that Global warming is a much greater threat
than <BR>terrorism. "We need to get out of Iraq and away from this
<BR>oil-driven economy and focus resources on addressing <BR>global warming
before its too late," said Petermann of <BR>Global Justice Ecology
Project.</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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