Concentration against globalisation: The world is not a merchandise

As from today until September 29, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are holding their annual meeting in Prague. Numerous movements and associations from the world over have called for mobilisations and alternative events to demonstrate their rejection of the effects of the globalisation of the economy.

A series of Mallorcan organisations have constituted a Platform with the view to participating in the Movement for Global Resistance initiated in Seattle, and to give life to this world date amongst us. The Mallorcan Platform for the Movement for Global Resistance called a meeting on Tuesday September 26, 2000, in the Joan Carles I Square in Palma.

The organisations integrated initially in the Platform are: CCOO, UGT, CGT, STEI-i, Unió de Pagesos, SEM, Pau i Solidaritat, Sindicat d'Estudiants, Cristians pel Socialisme, Amics de la Terra, GOB, Federació d'Associacions de Veïnats, Veterinaris sense Fronteres, ISCOD, Els Verds, EU, PSM-EN, Revolta and Plataforma antimilitarista, and they have edited a manifest that states the abandon of the countryside and the Balearization, the result of the sole industry... tourist, are the effects of the globalization here on the islands.

More information:
- Initiative Against Economic Globalisation - Prague 2000
- IndyMedia Center
- Moviment de Resistència Global (Catalunya)

Date of publication: 26/09/2000

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