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Headlines : InternationalSeries of Global Protests to Begin in March
Plans for several international days of action & demonstration have emerged out of the World Social Forum, which ended in Venezuela on Sunday. Anti-occupation & anti-war actions & demonstrations on March 18th will mark the beginning of this most recent phase of global resistance to the U.S. Empire.
We must once again take it to the streets and make our voices heard. Expect Resistance.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from IPS News
CARACAS, Jan 29 (IPS) – A day of international protests against the occupation of Iraq, on Mar. 18, will mark the start of a series of demonstrations and mobilisations organised at the sixth World Social Forum, which ended Sunday in Venezuela.
A conference against the U.S. occupation of Iraq will be held Mar. 24-27 in Cairo, Egypt, announced the international Assembly of Social Movements, which met on the final day of the WSF in Caracas.
Some 2,200 civil society organisations organised nearly 1,800 seminars, panels, workshops and other activities during the five-day WSF, which served as a meeting-place for sharing ideas and experiences, but also for organising networks to undertake concrete campaigns, as advocated by the Assembly of Social Movements.
“We have around 300 organisations and networks that bring together more than 900 groups interested in taking part in this programme of campaigns,” Piero Bernocchi with COBAS, an Italian alternative network of trade unions, told IPS.
Speaking before thousands of participants at the Forum on Friday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he hoped the WSF did not turn into merely a “revolutionary tourism” activity, and called for it to come up with programmes for concrete action against “political imperialism” and…
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Sounds good, but remember: dissent/protest could be a felony by then
And there might be a new war to protest against by then…
One must also realize that mass protests or any political support for peace might lead to terrorism. It is then needed to restabilise fear levels and bring back focus and support to the “war on terror”. Remember what happened last July right after Live8 and Britains declaration of withdrawal from Iraq?
Yeah, but remember the Madrid Bombing. You could go either way (like Fennec).
World Social Forum: It All Boils Down to Politics
Speaking before thousands of participants at the Forum on Friday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he hoped the WSF did not turn into merely a “revolutionary tourism” activity, and called for it to come up with programmes for concrete action against “political imperialism” and neoliberal, free-market economic policies.
Realizing that there is a large swath of support that could be spontaneously raised by pointing out that “free-market” policies have nothing to do with actual free markets, which have never yet existed in modern society, would help quite a massive goddamn bit.