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Break the World Bank street party - Monday 12th November
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Wednesday October 31, 2007 19:14
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Meet at 12pm Connolly Station - Assemble at 1pm at the Grand Hotel Malahide
The World Bank is coming to Dublin on Monday November 12th and Tuesday November 13th - delegates will stay at the Grand Hotel Malahide. This is also where they will meet and discuss new strategies for the privatisation of "development".
They claim to be working for a world free of poverty yet...
-The World Bank keeps millions in poverty through crippling debt structures, unfair trade rules, enforced privatisation and public service cutbacks.
-The World Bank is a tool of destructive global capitalism. It funds environmentally devastating projects.
-The same neo-liberal ideology that fuels the World Bank - profit for the few over the lives of the many - is destroying communities here in Ireland.
We* think this is a perfect opportunity to have a bit of a party. So we've gathered up some buckets and spades, we're making some salad sandwiches and we've invited all our friends. So join us out in Malahide on Monday 12th of November. All ages welcome.
*A network of social justice, anarchist, anti-capitalist and environmental activists who operate under the principles of Grassroots Dissent
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Grassroots Dissent Principles
What kind of world do we want?
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We want a society where:
- People have control over their own lives
- People have control over their own activities
- People work as equals
and we reject whatever systems and actions impede this.
We want how we work together to reflect what we are working towards.
We argue for a sustainable environmental, economic and social
system, agreed by the people of the planet.
Methods of struggle
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We affirm direct democracy in opposition to lobbying and parliamentary
politics.
We advocate forms of resistance which maximise respect for life and
oppressed people's rights, as well as the construction of bottom-up
alternatives to global capitalism.
We advocate direct action, solidarity, civil disobedience and creative
resistance.
How we work together
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Grassroots Dissent is a decentralised network of diverse groups and
individuals, which respects different ways of organising, in keeping with
the principles of direct democracy and bottom-up organisation.
We will strive to be as open, inclusive and accessible as possible,
respecting the different capacities, skills and creativity that people
bring to the struggle for real equality, justice and sustainability.
In line with these principles, we will not tolerate aggression,
discrimination or disempowerment within the network.
We commit to learning from all those struggling for equality and against oppression to strengthen our understanding of the world and our own activities.
I'm sure the different anti-capitalist groups, parties, assemblies & so forth as well as the human rights, human development, faith based & ecology types aren't going to pass up this opportunity to articulate opposition to the current global capitalist & banking system.
But I don't know any lists people can join to share info, ideas, tactics, experiences of previous anti-World Bank gigs. = where are they?
The poster further up the page was a work-in-progress. This is the updated version of the poster. Click through to see a high-res JPEG (750k), which should be good enough for printing, possibly even at A3.
Break the World Bank!
Trivia: the official mascot of Monopoly (the fatcat banker in this poster) is Rich Uncle Pennybags. He was renamed Mr. Monopoly in 1998.
A4 JPEG version of poster
In previous years the commentariat on this site would usually treat the relaunch of various fronts like Globalise Resistance or Another Europe is Possible with the well deserved and justified criticism, that such organisations had absolutely no serious foundation whatsoever beyond their name or "brand" being wheeled out at opportune moments by individuals involved in other groups, who used these fronts merely as a vehicle to get people involved in other things. A prime example of this was GR suddenly springing back to life in the wake of the Mayday 2004 happenings with a meeting in the Tap Pub on North King St, and vanishing as suddenly as it had reappeared, never to be seen again.
So - can you see where this comment is going? in relation to the above event, coinciding with the arrival of a Three (or Two) Letter Acronym bad guy coming into town... an organisation which doesnt exist beyond an old name or hold meetings or do anything whatsoever suddenly reappearing from the mist? Its difficult not to be cynical.
(aside from the argument that people's time and resources go into organising things like this, when there are other struggles unfinished here that will still be going on long after the wb have left, incl. shannon and rossport. And no its not as simple as "we can fight them all", when there is limited amounts of people involved and committed, it is better to stay focused on struggles that can have an impact, rather than trying to resurrect the "anti-globalisation" summit spectaculars for brief periods of time and then disappear into smoke. This protest is a spectacular waste of time and energy, e.g. designing posters like the above instead of for rossport on the 9th, or holding organising meetings when shannon is still happening, etc etc...)
eerrm its not one or the other my friend and most of those pulling this together will be at rossport this wknd too. i'd even go as far to say that there are tremdous overlaps in poster design too...multi taskin eh? sorry dont have longer to respond but cheers for the cynical advice....next time your organsing a meeting bout rossport or shannon let us know!!
Yes there are limited numbers to protest and organise for the multitude of campaigns and issues going on in Ireland and on a global level. These issues do not stand alone they are all interconnected. Many of the people putting time and effort into this event are involved in Shannon and Rossport among other campaigns. Most of them were at the film last night about Shannon etc. A number fo them are getting on that bus to Ropssport this evening. They are members of many groups etc. and attend a multitude of meetings and events going on in Dublin, often running from one to the other. It is unfortunate that this is the case but there is not a very large group of people out there willing to give that sort of time a dedication.
As for the comment that such an event is taking away form campaigns such as Shanon and Rossport I am sure some may suggest that Rossport took a huge nuber of people, public support and the public eye away from Shannon and became the new flavour of the month. This is in no way a criticism of the campaign in Rossport. It is something many of us are guilty of. I heard this referred to as 'campaign surfing'. That is what is more damaging. It is people forsaking one campaign for another, not joining the dots of the bigger picture and not realising the importance of and the possibility of them working parallel to each other to create the public outcry, to create the mass dissent, the revolution or whatever it is that the people involved in various campiagns or groups are looking for through their involvement.
Any reports from this, please? Thanks
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