[stop-imf] Mobilization for Global Justice Call to Action

[Robert Weissman]

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Mobilization for Global Justice -- Call to Action

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank will hold their Joint
Annual General Meetings in Washington, DC from September 28 to October 4, 2=
001.

We call on people from all over the world to come to Washington to expose
the illegitimacy of these institutions, to stand in solidarity with peoples
in the global south, and to claim our right to determine our future and the
course of the world economy.

A 10-day convergence filled with teach-ins, workshops, trainings and
actions begins on September 23rd.

GLOBALIZE JUSTICE
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!

If you are saddened by polluted land, water, and air=85
If you have grown weary of representatives that do not represent and
institutions that do not serve people=85
If your heart has grown heavy in the face of distinctions based on power
over otherssexism, racism, classism, homophobia=85
If you are dismayed with participation in a system that brings untold
wealth to the doorsteps of a few by stealing bread from the tables of many=
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If you are appalled by excuses that place profits before the lives of
millions of people living with HIV=85
If you know in your heart and mind that a just and nonviolent world is
possible, and you want to help create it=85

JOIN US IN WASHINGTON

We call upon all people concerned for justice in their communities to join
with others around the world in shaping a different globalization: a
globalization of our rights to life, to speech, to thought, to religion, to
assembly, to a clean environment, to food and medication, to freedom from
fear and freedom from poverty.  We stand for the rights indigenous peoples,
of women, of people with HIV, affordable health care, strong labor rights
and social and economic policies that put people before profits.  This is
not the globalization being forced upon us.  To that other
globalization--the globalization of greed--we stand chanting:  Another
World Is Possible.

The IMF and the World Bank meetings in Washington are the most significant
gathering of the proponents of corporate-led globalization in the U.S. in
2001.  It is imperative that supporters of global economic justice send a
clear message: the movement for global justice continues to grow, and will
not stand for continuing efforts by these institutions and the G-8
governments to structure the world for the benefit of corporations and the
wealthy and to deny basic justice to the majority of the world=92s people.

We demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund:
=B7=09Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.
=B7=09Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using=
 the
institutions' own resources.
=B7=09End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to fo=
od,
clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such
"structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and
economic austerity programs.)
=B7=09Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destruct=
ive
projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for
projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.

We furthermore demand that the United States government, the largest
shareholder and most
influential government in the World Bank and IMF, adopt the above demands,
and work vigorously to compel the World Bank and IMF to implement them.

CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE

For more information, or to endorse the Mobilization for Global Justice, go
to www.globalizethis.org