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18 June 1999: A Day of Protest, Action, and Carnival in Financial Centres Across the Globe
June 18th 1999 will be an international day of action aimed at the heart of the global economy: the financial centres, banking districts and multinational corporation power bases. The plan is to encourage as many movements and groups as possible to organise their own autonomous protests or actions, on the same day (June 18th), in the same geographical locations (financial/corporate/banking/business districts) around the world. Events could take place at relevant sites, eg. multi-national company offices, local banks, stock exchanges. Each event would be organised autonomously and co-ordinated in each city or financial district by a variety of movements and groups.
It is hoped that a whole range of different groups will take part, includin workers, peasants, indigenous peoples, women, students, the landless, environmentalists, unwaged/unemployed and others...everyone who recognises that the globa capitalist system, based on the exploitation of people and the planet fo the profit of a few, is at the root of our social and ecological troubles.
Already, five months before June 18th, groups in 20 countries are preparing events for June 18th. Individual groups include Diverse Women For Diversity (USA), Policy and Information Centre for International Solidarity (Seoul, South Korea), and Chikoko (an umbrella movement linking different indigenous peoples fighting oil exploration in Nigeria). Some countries already have June 18th coalition groups, including Australia, England and the USA. Protests are being planned in many of the world's financial centres, such as London, New York, Mexico City, Sydney and Seoul.
As we realise that no issue is single, be it exploitation of workers, peasant farmers thrown off land, or our environment being destroyed, we also realise that we must act together. In the global economy the ground is being laid for hugesocial and political changes. Radical social movements from all over the world are beginning to work together. June 18th could be a landmark in the process. Never before has there been a time when co-ordinated action across the planet has been so necessary and so possible.
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