Smash the WEF in Salzburg

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Saturday July 06, 2002 13:45

by antiwef - Anti-WEF-Coordination

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The antiwef-coordination is a loose network of individuals, autonomous groups and collectives that teamed up to mobilize together against the WEF in Salzburg and to show resistance.

Also because of the sustained repression directed
against activists of the previous action days the
necessity of protests is still current.
At present more than 113 reports run towards presumed
participants in the officially prohibited
demonstration on 1st july 2001.
Apart from acquittals several fines have been imposed.

The antiwef-coordination makes out no use in trying to
carry on a dialogue with the WEF because its complete
lacking of legitimacy. The WEF is an elite that usurps
to make decisions over the heads of the affected
people. In doing so effects on e.g. social and
ecological level are ignored.
Due to the intensity of the global protest movement
the WEF was forced to carry on a dialogue with
organisations, groups and individuals.
Concessions to NGO's on the one hand serve to
polishing the image and on the other to annexing these
groups.

On the basis of the emancipatory approach of the
antiwef-coordination the question of reformating the
WEF does not arise since the WEF as an organisation is
not the basic problem.
Profitorientation in general does not comply with the
needs of humans, environment and animals but it
functions by penetrating all spheres of life.
The continuous integration of alternatives seems to
impossily the idea of a life avoiding the strive for
profit.

To protest against the WEF and its embeding inside
complex proportions of power the antiwef coordination
prepares days of action during the time from 12.-19.
september 2002.
On the occasion the occupation with the personal role
within the given context shall be given special
emphasis.
During the days of action different aspects such as
gender, migration and systems of representation are to
be a topic and there will be room to a versatile
dealing with.

The antiwef coordination is going to distribute press
releases in irregular intervals. Furthermore there are
informations on http://www.antiwef.org available
concerning the counteractivities on the occasion of
the WEF summit in Salzburg.
[email protected] serves as an adress to turn on for
pressinterests.

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