[mgj-discuss] Come protest World Bank pulp mills on the Uruguay river

[robert weissman]

From:
Sameer Dossani <sameer at 50years.org>
Date:
Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:34:03 -0500
To:
mgj-discuss <mgj-discuss at lists.mutualaid.org>

The attachments (one in Spanish) have better formatting.

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*No to the Papermills on the **Uruguay River**!__*

*Protest In Front of the World Bank in **WASHINGTON** DC!*

Thursday November 16^th - Pennsylvania & 18th St NW

12:00 Noon

Everyone to the Bank!!!!

The World Bank wants to finance two multinational enterprises to export 
their contaminating pulp mill industries to the beautiful beaches of the 
Uruguay River!

The Bank is set to vote on November 16th on whether to finance or not!

We need your help that same day to stop this investment!

Facts you should know:

    * The conflict is MANIPULATED BY MEDIA as a "bilateral" dispute
      between Argentina and Uruguay, but this is really about
      multinational enterprises against local communities;
    * This is FINLAND's *LARGEST FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT EVER* and it
      will ruin the Uruguay River and its beaches;
    * An Uruguayan Prosecutor is investigating the environmental permits
      for the project on grounds of *IRREGULARITIES AND BRIBES *to
      officials;
    * The Bank's Ombudsman confirms that the project *FAILS TO COMPLY*
      with the World Bank's Social and Environmental Safeguards;
    * The project is in *VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW*;
    * The conflict has resulted in the *WORLD'S LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL
      MARCH EVER*;
    * The economic interests of two multinational corporations are
      *DETERIORATING THE FRIEDNLY RELATIONS *between Argentina and Uruguay.

/We need your help to oppose these illogical, harmful and unwanted 
investments and to convince the World Bank not to give financial support 
to these projects that do not even comply with their own social and 
environmental safeguard policies. /

/sus propias normas de protección social y ambiental./

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*/COME BE A PART OF THIS HISTORICAL SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT!!!/*