[mgj-announce] Solidarity Demo Today!!!

[Madeline Jean]

      **We Stand Together Against Corporate Rule**


Come TODAY

What: A RALLY to stand in SOLIDARITY with the people of the social 
movements gathered in JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.

Who: Everyone who believes in global justice and supporting our comrades in the Global South.

Where: At the park across from the World Bank, 18th and H st.

When: 5pm on Tuesday September 3rd.

Bring: Puppets, signs, visuals, your voice, yourself.


*This statement was read at an international press conference in Johannesburg this morning.

Declaration of Solidarity from People Gathering to Protest the IMF 
and the World Bank in Washington D.C.  with the Social Movements Gathered in Johannesburg 



We Stand Together Against Corporate Rule 



The Mobilization for Global Justice - an umbrella group preparing 
mass protests in Washington, DC against the policies of the International 
Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the governments and transnational 
corporations that stand behind them - declare our support for the 
representatives of global civil society who have mobilized around 
the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.. 
Together we stand united across the oceans and time zones, across 
our diverse cultures, races, movements and traditions.  We stand 
in solidarity to demand an end to a global system that puts corporate 
greed before human need and treats our planet and communities merely as resources to be exploited. 



We join our brothers and sisters in South Africa in demanding that 
the governments of the world cease taking their marching orders 
from transnational corporations, and begin responding to the needs 
of the majority of their citizens. We demand the end of secret meetings 
where a handful of bureaucrats make life and death decisions affecting 
millions. We demand the cancellation of Third World debt. We demand 
an end to socially and environmentally destructive projects such 
as oil, gas, mining, logging and the construction of large dams. 
  We demand the end to primary school fees, health and water privatization, 
union-busting, and other structural adjustment policies that deprive 
poor people of their right to live.   We reiterate our opposition 
to a "new round" of negotiations in the World Trade Organization 
and to the creation of a "Free Trade Area of the Americas," as these 
are both clearly designed to further the corporate take over of 
our governments, economies and cultures. 



We express our solidarity with the people of the Townships of Johannesburg 
and all South Africa. We are outraged that those who most personally 
understand the failings of corporate globalization are being excluded 
from the WSSD summit.   We are tired of seeing 3sustainability2 
become yet another code word for greed and exploitation.  We call 
on all people of goodwill to support the mobilization and to oppose 
all efforts to silence their voices.