World Bank in Dublin Monday Nov 12th

[Barry]

The World Bank is coming to Dublin on Monday November 12th November - 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 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, our favourite tunes 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

www.debtireland.org/campaigns/index.htm
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[Barry]

"Debt and Development Coalition Ireland is specifically focusing on the fact that the World Bank is still attaching economic conditions to its loans and aid. When the World Bank meets in Dublin, its rich member governments, including Ireland, will negotiate how much money they will give to one of the lending arms of World Bank. We are demanding that our finance Minister, Brian Cowen, should not give any money beyond our basic membership subscription unless the World Bank immediately stops attaching economic conditions to its loans and aid. We believe that the World Bank does not have the right to impose economic policies on impoverished countries as this undermines their sovereignty and independence. The right of impoverished countries to determine their own future must not be undermined by Ireland’s aid."

[Kevo]

Going are you?

[Barry]

Thinking about it, dunno if anyone else is. I take it you're working then?