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Libertarians against Nice support ATTAC picket of the referendum commission national |
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 Thursday October 10, 2002 11:57 by Libertarians against Nice contactLAN at yahoogroups dot com
 The citizens? association ATTAC na hÉireann will demonstrate today at 3pm outside the Referendum Commission to demand fair and balanced information on the privatisation consequences of the Nice Treaty. Members of Libertarians against Nice will join them there Press Release - Oct/10/2002 - No embargo Libertarians against Nice support ATTAC picket of the referendum commission --- The citizens? association ATTAC na hÉireann will demonstrate today at 3pm outside the Referendum Commission to demand fair and balanced information on the privatisation consequences of the Nice Treaty. Members of Libertarians against Nice will join them there. Andrew Flood of LAN said "The Nice treaty represents an important step in the EU's privatisation agenda. Nice will change Article 133 of the Treaty of Europe, so that the un-elected European Commission gains the power to impose "uniformity in measures of liberalisation". What this means is that they can order national governments to privatise services. "Article 133 will also give the EU Council and Commission power to negotiate agreements with the WTO, rather then national governments. At the WTO summit in Seattle in 1999, the EU commission announced their support for a bio-technology working party, causing 15 EU trade ministers to issue a joint statement of disagreement. If Nice passes, their disagreements would be irrelevant.
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1Thanks to all who showed - good gang heads + green sf and sp tds. No thanks to the press who despite being comprehensively informed continuously have managed to black out to the point of indecipherability campaigning and awareness raising around the 133 issue. TV 3 did show but nothing on their bulletins as far as I am aware.
Attac have been co-operating with the Article 133 info group throughout the campaign on Nice and contributed to the research and writing of this open letter among other things: www.indymedia.ie/article133/
I agree with the contributor that drastic action is needed to raise this issue despite the media blackout. Thoughts and strategies would be welcome as our conventional lobbying/info distribution methods are not making an impact beyond the Green/broad left/SF audience.
Has ATTAC produced any other documentation/analysis on Nice? Their material is usually good and well researched and not as skimpy as the usual swp leaflet
The self styled 'independent' ref con badly needs to be picketed continously, this would be more useful work for a few people rather that spending hours travelling there and back from shannon or even taking a break for the whole weekend as a few swmmies were overheard saying recently.
and if so would they leave the address here?
and if not when will they set one up?