Reclaiming Power, Peoples Resistance to the WTO, the World Bank & IMF

dublin | summit mobilisations | 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.