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Reclaiming Power, Peoples Resistance to the WTO, the World Bank & IMF
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event notice 
Thursday September 20, 2007 14:35
by Comhlamh - Comhlamh
Reclaiming Power will facilitate activists from Ireland and the Global South to share their experiences of resistance.
Saturday 13th October
2:00pm – 5:30pm
North Star Hotel / Amiens St. [Opposite Connolly Station and near Busaras]
A joint venture from Africa Centre, Comhlámh and Debt and Development Coalition Ireland
Program: http://comhlamh.org/assets/files/pdfs/Reclaiming%20Powe...er%20(Web).pdf
The three key institutions of global economic governance are in crisis:
- Talks in the World Trade Organization (WTO) keep collapsing as impoverished country governments reject signing trade treaties that don’t benefit their people.
- The World Bank is being exposed as unaccountable to poor people.
- Impoverished countries are ceasing to borrow from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
This crisis has mobilised a growing movement of protest around the globe.
Activists are now demanding just alternatives for an equal, sustainable world.
Reclaiming Power will facilitate activists from Ireland and the Global South to share their experiences of resistance.
Among the speakers are Aileen Kwa [Focus on the Global South / Asia], Andy Storey [Centre for Development Studies / UCD], Gonzalo Salgado [National Consumer Defense Network / Nicaragua], Jean Somers [Activist / Ireland] and Colin Roche [Oxfam Ireland].
This occasion will allow you to join with us in planning how we can make our voices of protest heard at the World Bank meeting to be held in Dublin this November.
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2What a pity the Reclaiming Power (Dublin) and the Counter Cultures (Maynooth) conferences clash. Indymedia is there to be used as a kind of clearing house to avoid these mis-timings which take away from all similar but clashing events.
be really good to get some of or all of these quality discussions recorded and quickly uploaded to imc-ie. imc-radio is still down so thats a big resource missing from social movements that completely ties into the content of both these forums / gatherings / symposium. I still feel that audio archiving is a truly important thing for us to be doing, i know comhlamh have, or at least had, their own media group who put out excellent cds. imc-ie can now take some smallish audio files, for bigger uploads you can write a short story on imc-indybay, which runs out of san fran area and add the large audio files, then link them back into imc-ie story. Maybe some of the imc-ie collective or revolt or seomra spraoi heads have these, not so expensive tools, or if not might think about investing into them soon, so as to further build on the momentum which seems to be present in Dublin and beyond at present.
building up the RADICAL radio network
http://indymedia.ie/article/71892
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