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national | miscellaneous | news report Friday April 18, 2003 02:41 by Garrett Mullan - Globalise Resistance garrettmullan at eircom dot net 086 3927650

EVIAN G8 June 1st

Fundraising gig for transport to G8 protest on June 1st- 25th (Friday) Liberty Hall Also Report from meeting last sunday

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13/4/03
June 1st G8: George Bush in Europe- International Demonstrations

Anti- War movement turns attention to G8 summit.
Report from Public Meeting this Sunday 13th April, Liberty Hall, Dublin

Mobilise against Bush

The G8 Summit returns to Europe this year, following its last meeting in an isolated area of the rockies after being rocked by the mass global resistance movement demonstrations in Genoa of July 2001. Globalise Resistance is organizing a pubic information on the G8 with a view to building a campaign to mobilize Irish people to the protest on June 1st.

No to war- Defend democracy- Put people before Profit

Up to and over 2million people could converge on Evian, the border village (pop. 4000) to protest at the G8 summit on June 1st. Endorsing the mobilization for Irish people to go to protest at the G8 summit Des Geraghty (SIPTU President) said: “The most powerful weapon against the agenda of George Bush is the solidarity of ordinary people”.

Christophe Aguiton of the G8 Protest organising committee came over from France. He said: “The mobilization to Genoa was 300,000 but the mobilization throughout the world on February 15th consisted of 10 million people. The situation has moved on and we are on the crest of a powerful new movement of people power”.

At the heart of the Irish government’s response to the war is a concern as to the interests of US corporations in Ireland. The Global protest movement against the war is setting out on a determined march to resist the power of the transnational corporations which exercise undue weight over global social policy, the G8 and the power that transnational corporations have in everyday life. The interests of profit have seen not only the war in Iraq but an attempted coup in Venezuela.

The G8 summit involving the world’s seven richest countries plus Russia will be a meeting of the butcher of Chechnya- Vladimir Putin- with the coalition of the killing.

Rory Hearne Secretary of the Campaign said: “The G8 summit of the world’s most powerful countries will take place in Evian near the French- Swiss border. Mobilisation to protest at the lack of democracy and accountability, yet enormous power of the G8, is taking place on a European wide level and possibly beyond”.

He added that: “Given the current circumstance in Iraq, there will exist a profound after effect in terms of political consequences. The coalition might want to call on the Iraqi information officer to issue press statements on their behalf as the legitimacy of their Iraqi campaign crumbles. The presence of George Bush and Tony Blair at this summit in France, will be an opportunity to mobilize an international expression of revulsion as to what is happening in Iraq”.

Globalise Resistance will be organizing for as many Irish people to attend the international demonstration at Evian which will have an anti- war and a defence of democracy as two key themes.

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