[mgj-announce] MGJ Solidarity Statement to Finland's Stop the War Network

[mgj at riseup.net]

Pysäyttäkää sota -verkosto (Stop the war network) in Finland is organizing
a demonstration this Saturday, October 22, to protest Paul Wolfowitz's
concurrent visit to Helsinki and meeting with the Parliamentary Network on
the World Bank (PNoWB).

MGJ sent them the following statment of solidarity, which will be read at
the protest and posted on their website: http://www.maailmanpankki.info.

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Statement of Solidarity to Pysäyttäkää sota -verkosto (Stop the war network)
>From the Mobilization for Global Justice
October 22, 2005

The Mobilization for Global Justice (Washington DC, U.S.) stands in
solidarity with the participants and organizers of the protests against
Paul Wolfowitz, the Iraq War, and the World Bank this weekend in Helsinki,
Finland.  We support all those who stand up to and speak out against the
military and economic institutions of oppression which marginalize,
impoverish and exploit the majority of the world’s people to profit
corporate and political elite.  The Mobilization for Global Justice
envisions a world free of corporate domination and crippling debt,
particularly in communities of color.  We must all work to expose and
fight the institutionalized violence wrought by international financial
and trade institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary
Fund.

As the President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the
U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, wields a power as deadly as war and
more insidious over the lives and livelihoods of millions of people.  Both
the economic occupation of the global South by the IMF and World Bank and
the military occupation of some of the same countries by the U.S. have
served to ensure that countries of the global South remain subservient to
the colonial powers.

Now Mr. Wolfowitz can – through privatization, trade liberalization, and
other policies – continue to ensure the transfer of wealth and resources
from the majority of people in the world to the elite minority.  He can
continue to impoverish the already poor not by the barrel of the gun but
through loan agreements that keep whole nations in a constant cycle of
debt dependence and abject poverty.

At each opportunity presented, the social movements of the world must
protest and demonstrate against Wolfowitz and the reign of economic
violence he represents.  The Mobilization for Global Justice offers our
support and solidarity as you raise your%2