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BELFAST:
NO BORDERS, NO FRONTIERS - IMMIGRANTS ARE WELCOME
HERE!
SATURDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER 3.30PM, OUTSIDE CITY HALL,
BELFAST
Speaking Out Against The WTO
www.freewebs.com/globalise
This
is quite urgent.
In
the last few hours Lee Kyung-hae, a South Korean farmer
and activist, has killed himself at the fences in
Cancun behind which the WTO are meeting. His suicide
was designed to highlight the plight that farmers
across the world are facing thanks to the policies
of the WTO and against their illegitimate meeting
in Cancun.
Already
tens of thousands of other farmers, workers, students
and peasants have been converging on the city to oppose
the policies of the WTO. Globalise Resistance have
called a demonstration outside City Hall in solidarity
with those demonstrating and we are encouraging as
many people as possible to join us against the organisation
which puts profit before the needs of people across
the world. People should bring down placards, pots
and pans, flags, banners… basically anything
to make a lively demo.
These
people aren’t only demonstrating for their own
livelihoods, they are also demonstrating against the
water charges we face here at home, the bin charges
down south and against the sell off of our schools
and hospitals.
SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE WTO
SOLIDARITY WITH DEMONSTRATIONS IN CANCUN
Dan
Buckley
grbelfast@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/wto/OpposeWTO.html
Belfast
Anti Racist Meeting: Multi Cultural Resource Centre,
Sept 17th at 7pm
Davy Carlin
Over
the past while we have seen the rise of racist incidents
and attacks on ethnic minorities around Northern Ireland.
We have also seen the overt rise of racist material,
graffiti and groups springing up in various areas.
This would be of concern to all those progressive
forces that seek a socially just and inclusive society.
Following a recent meeting held in the Multi Cultural
Resource Centre in Belfast attended by human rights
organisations, ethnic minority support groups, asylum
seeker lawyers, practitioners, development organisations,
and other interested parties, it was decided a second
meeting should be held. This meeting is to discuss
any practical and viable strategies that can be developed
to raise awareness and to tackle this increasing problem.
Various groups and organisations are and have been
actively trying to tackle this problem but it was
suggested a broader meeting to discuss all the various
strategies and maybe finding some practical activity
together, could be yet another way of helping to bring
this issue to the fore.
The
meeting is to be held in the Multi Cultural Resource
Centre, Sept 17th at 7pm. Address 9 Lower Crescent
BT7. (The street across from the Empire, and is beside
the One World Centre in S/Belfast) Those groups, organisations
and individuals who would be interested in attending
the meeting are welcome. It will be informal and open
to all to have an input. For further information contact
Nathalie at the Multi Cultural Resource Centre at
Nathalie@mcrc-ni.org
or alternatively you can contact myself at carlindavid@hotmail.com.
DUBLIN:
No Human Is Illegal
Public
meeting
Liberty
Hall, Dublin 7.30pm WEDS SEPT 17th
Speakers:
Elizabeth Adeyinka Salako (Mother of Irish children
- facing deportation)
Dr
Ronit Lentin (Ethnic and Racial Studies, Trinity College)
Joe
Carolan (Globalise Resistance)
Rosanna
Flynn (Residents Against Racism) and speaker from
SIPTU
No Human is Illegal - Let the Parents of Irish
Children Stay
Eleven
thousand asylum seekers face immediate deportation
under new laws announced by Minister of Injustice
Michael Mc Dowell. On 17 July Mc Dowell announced
that parents of Irish children were also to be deported
- his
officials immediately issued the first 400 notices
of deportation. They were told that they only had
15 days to appeal- but without legal aid for a process
that could cost between 2-4,000 euro.
This
follows a disgraceful Supreme Court decision in February
removing the right of parents to remain with Irish
born children. While these Irish children cannot be
legally deported, they will be forced to leave the
country with their families. In effect, this marks
the beginning of a new definition of what it means
to be Irish- it will now be officially racialised.
FF/PDs
scapegoat immigrants for their own mistakes
Ireland
is now the most globalised economy in the world. Giant
multinationals are free to open (and all too often,
close) their factories here, with huge tax breaks
and subsidies. They expatriate billions of euros profit
from Ireland everyday - in reality, they are the real
parasites. Their friends in Fianna Fail and the PDs
always boast how this corporate globalisation is good
for Ireland, yet they are now attacking the human
face of globalisation. A multicultural Ireland whose
children have parents from elsewhere.
Fianna
Fail and the PDs are deeply unpopular- they won the
last election by pretending that the Celtic Tiger
boom would continue. The economy is going into recession,
and they have made a mess of our hospitals, public
transport and services. Now, rather than have us turn
our anger on them and their rich friends who ripped
this country off during the boom, they want us to
scapegoat immigrants to take attention off themselves.
Human
Globalisation versus Corporate Globalisation
Globalise
Resistance believes that everybody has the right to
live and work in this new global economy. If capital
and corporations are free to move around the world,
then so too should people. We oppose all forms of
racism, whether on the streets or from official channels.
We think ordinary people have more in common with
each other than with the governments or corporations,
and that we should unite for a multicultural world
free from racism, hunger and war. We agree with the
revolutionary James Connolly, who in the 1916 proclamation
declared that all the children of the nation should
be cherished equally. That means not ripping their
families apart.
Globalise
Resistance needs volunteers to help with the resistance
to Mc Dowell's deportations. If you can help in any
way, please text us at 087 9032281 or email us at
nohumanisillegal@yahoo.com
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