[asia-apec 1020] Re: June 18th 1999 day of action

[Elsie Dean]

Reply from Council of Canadians Vancouver Chapter Canada We will be
participating. Please E-mail a copy of leaflet and any other material that
can come via e-mail.  <sbdean at sfu.ca>
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Brown <markb at gn.apc.org>
To: asia-apec at jca.ax.apc.org <asia-apec at jca.ax.apc.org>;
asia-apec at jca.ax.apc.org <asia-apec at jca.ax.apc.org>
Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 2:13 AM
Subject: [asia-apec 1019] June 18th 1999 day of action


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>Dear all,
>
>Firstly apologies to all those who have received this information already.
>
>Secondly, if anyone would like a few leaflets sent to them on this event,
>please email me back.
>
>I think the day will only really be judged a success if there is
>participation from every area currently feeling the ceaseless pressure of
>economic globalisation...
>
>Yours in solidarity,
>
>Mark Brown (London Reclaim the Streets)
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>An invitation to join the day of protest, action and carnival in financial
>centres across the globe on 18th June 1999.
>
>        ...Wherever there is oppression there is resistance...
>
>On June 18th 1999 there will be an international day of action aimed at the
>heart of the global economy: the financial centres, banking districts and
>trans-national corporation power bases. These actions will coincide with
the
>meeting of the G8 leaders in Koln, Germany. Many groups and movements are
>already planning for the day, including groups in South Korea, Nigeria,
>South Africa, the USA and Indonesia.  Groups within the UK have helped
>network the idea, including Reclaim the Streets (RTS, a popular movement
>seeking the liberation of city streets and public spaces using direct
>action, and now Western European convenors of Peoples' Global Action), and
>London Greenpeace (a group independent of Greenpeace International,
recently
>involved in a large successful battle with McDonald's.
>
>This day of action will take place in the spirit of strengthening our
>international networks. It  follows from the success of co-ordinated global
>action during May 16-20th 1998, which saw actions, protests and
>demonstrations on all continents, for example over 30 Reclaim the Streets
>parties in over 20 countries - a combination of illegal carnival, protest
>and direct action.  In Brasilia 50,000 landless peasants were on the
>streets, while in Hyderabad, India, 200,000 were protesting. These events
>coincided with the 'G8' meeting in Birmingham, Great Britain, and the third
>ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.
>The 'G8' consists of the leaders of the eight most industrialised countries
>and exists solely to promote economic globalisation, 'free' trade and
>corporate dominance.
>
>This year between the 18th-20th June the G8 will meet in Koln, Germany. The
>idea is to take action around the globe to coincide with this meeting. This
>also links with the Inter-Continental Caravan, the proposed tour of Indian
>farmers/activists in Europe to campaign against the World Trade
Organisation
>and multinational corporations. The proposal is to encourage as many
>movements and groups as possible to organise their own autonomous protests
>or actions, on the same day (June 18th), in the same geographical locations
>(financial/corporate/banking/business districts) around the world. Events
>could take place at relevant sites, e.g. multinational company offices,
>local banks, stock exchanges.  Each event would be organised independently
>and co-ordinated in each city or financial district by a variety of
>movements and groups. It is hoped that a whole range of different groups
>will take part, including workers, peasants, indigenous peoples, women,
>students, the landless, environmentalists, unwaged/unemployed and
>others....everyone who recognises that the global capitalist system, based
>on the exploitation of people and the planet for the profit of a few, is at
>the root of our social and ecological troubles.
>
>As a proposal, J18 has been discussed by movements and groups on all
>continents, for example the Karnataka State Farmers Association (KRRS,
>India), the Rainbow Keepers (ecologists from ex-USSR states), Campaign
>Against the Arms Trade (UK), Processo de Communidades Negras (Colombian
>Black communities movement), Friends of the Earth, Uruguay
>(Environmentalists), CTERA (Argentinean Teacher's Union), Reclaim the
>Streets (New York, USA; Prague, Czech Republic; Sydney, Australia),
COMUTRAS
>(textile workers union, El Salvador), peasant movements in Mozambique and
>many more.
>Plans are already well underway in New York, Prague, Seoul, London and
>Frankfurt. Ideas are flowing and enthusiasm is growing. We'd very much like
>to hear what you think.
>Please subscribe to the j18 discussion list by sending mail to
><listproc at gn.apc.org> with the following request as text:
>
>                subscribe J18DISCUSSION Your email address
>
>then you can email j18discussion at gn.apc.org and your message will
>automatically go to other interested groups around the world to facilitate
>wider discussion of this proposal.
>Or write to 'June 18th', PO Box 9656, London N4 4JY, Great Britain.
>
>OUR RESISTANCE WILL BE AS TRANSNATIONAL AS CAPITAL!
>
>J18 website: http://www.gn.apc.org/june18
>For more information on Peoples' Global Action visit http://www.agp.org
>for more information on Reclaim the Streets visit
http://www.gn.apc.org/rts/
>for more information on London Greenpeace / McLibel visit
>http://www.mcspotlight.org
>
>PLEASE PASS THIS PROPOSAL ON TO OTHERS.
>
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>"We want justice. We want peace not war. We are tired of oil inspired
>environmental pollution. Oil is conflict, it is war. Let us have justice."
>Niger Delta Women for Justice (NDWJ)
>For info on resistance to Big Oil in the Niger Delta, see
www.kemptown.org/shell
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>Get on board JUNE 18th 1999:
>INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AIMED AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
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>Next London J18 meeting March 6th, The Palms Room (4th Floor), Uni. of
>London Union, Malet Street. Nearest station, Euston. Nearest tube, Goodge
>Street. 12pm onwards.
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>Then of course there's the Peoples' Global Action Tour, a.k.a the
>INTER-CONTINENTAL CARAVAN (22.5.- 20.6.1999), a month of action with Indian
>and other '3rd world' activists directed at Europe's corporate & financial
>centres!
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