Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:22:32 -0700
From: Sid Shniad <•••@••.•••>
Subject: Initiative Against Economic Globalization - Prague 2000
From: •••@••.•••
Subject: Fw: INPEG Prague 2000 - Call For Help
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:34:28 +0100
Please spread this call worldwide
Initiative Against Economic Globalization - Prague 2000
Join the campaign against IMF/WB summit in Prague, September 25-28, 2000.
We need your support for the continuing struggle for global justice!!!
Some 20,000 representatives of global capital (world bankers,
economists and financiers) are expected to come to Prague in September to
attend the 55th annual summit of the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank Group. This prestigious meeting of the world economic elite, the
first of its kind in the Central and Eastern Europe, will definitely be of a
great importance. The delegates will meet to propose a scheme of further
liberalization of the world economy by defining new loan priorities and
structural adjustment conditions.
The events in Seattle at the WTO meeting last November showed that a
huge wave of global resistance is rising against the expanding power of
global capital. The IMF/WB summit in Prague will be our next big opportunity
to express our demands for global justice.
The Initiative Against Economic Globalization (INPEG) is a loose coalition
of various Czech environmental, human rights and autonomist/anarchist
groups, organizations and individuals who are ready to stand up critically
against the summit of the world financial oligarchy. INPEG has been meeting
regularly in Prague since last summer. It has planned a series of campaigns
that will culminate in ten days of activities starting on September 20.
Non-violent demonstrations, info campaigns, and the Festival of Art and
Resistance includinga counter-summit will be the main resistance activities
in the mentioned period.
We will be exposing the links between the IMF/WB, the WTO and
transnational corporations and the ways how they work to maximize private
profits and limit the power of people to protect the environment, determine
their economic destiny, and safeguard their human rights. They are also
directly responsible for the third world debt. Even their debt relief
policy continues under the harsh conditions of the IMF Structural Adjustment
Programmes, and thus makes just one step forward and two steps backward. Our
goal is to give the proper name to what the policies of the IMF/WB really
cause in the South as well as in the Central and Eastern Europe. We will be
demanding an immediate suspension of these practices leading to
environmental destruction, growing social inequality and poverty and
curtailing of people’s rights. We will be demonstrating our solidarity
with the global resistance movement.
Your support is needed, indeed!!!
The support, both moral and material, for the September actions in
Prague, should come from all around the world. Of course, financial
contribution is crucial, especially in the CE Europe, where financial
sources as well as the movement itself are not so developed as was for
example the case with Seattle. That is why we are issuing this urgent
appeal. Let us know if you can help us in our common struggle.
Please tell us whether you are planning to or campaigning already
against the Prague IMF/WB summit.
Can you bring any people to Prague? How many?
Can you organize workshops or bring own materials to spread in Prague?
Can you bring mobile sound systems and other stuff useful for street
actions?
Can you contact street artists, music bands, etc. to come to Prague
to the art/activism festival?
Can you contact renowned personalities either to take part in the
counter-summit or to publicly express support?
Are you planning to organize any other activities related to our
campaign?
Are you planning to run a parallel campaign in your country?
Can you propagate the anti-IMF/WB activities in Prague in both
alternative and mainstream media?
Financial contribution is the crucial thing!!! Please donate as much as
you can for success in September.
Can you pay for specific services (e.g. communications equipment,
printing, etc.)?
Can you a contribute a direct donation?
Can you organize benefit concerts, techno parties, collections or
fundraising for the Prague campaign?
We can offer accommodation for almost no money in Prague.
If you want more information on the counter-summit or other actions in
Prague, accommodation facilities or on INPEG and the Czech resistance
movement, visit our webpages on http://imf2000.webjump.com or contact us on
our email:
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Please contribute financial donations on this account:
IPB
Cs.Armady 35
160 00, Prague 6
Czech Republic, Europe
account number: 163 775 396/5100
swift code: INBACZPP
Global solidarity against global capital !!!
Initiative Against Economic Globalization – Prague 2000
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