Public Meeting- Stop the G8- Sunday 13th April

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday April 10, 2003 00:55 by Garrett Mullan - Globalise Resistance garrettmullan at eircom dot net 086 3927650

Press release GR to protest at G8

A meeting took place on Sunday March 31st to begin the mobilisations for the G8 summit. The following were elected to positions to lead the GR committee- Rory Hearne (Secretary - member of the SWP), Pat Clafferty (Treasurer- member of the Green Party, Garrett Mullan (Pro- member of the Socialist Party) Several other attended. We agreed to organise the public meeting to encourage support for the G8 Mobilisations

Globalise Resistance
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7/1/03

June 1st G8: George Bush in Europe- International Anti- War Demonstration

Public Meeting this Sunday 13th April

Speakers:

Joe Carolan (Globalise Resistance)

Patricia Mc Kenna (Green Party MEP)

Des Geraghty (SIPTU President)

Christophe Aguiton (International Co-ordinator for the G8 protest)

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

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.

Globalise Resistance is an umbrella organization that involves various groups, political parties, non- governmental organizations as well as individuals campaigning against the Global Agenda of G8 and the policies of the World Trade Organisation.

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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Contact Garrett Mullan at 086 392 7650