Guest guest Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 This is from the UK Green Party. No doubt Monsanto and their ilk will be winging their way over to Iraq pretty soon... NEWS RELEASE >From the office of the Green MEPs February 7th, 2004 `IRAQ VIOLENCE FUELLED BY GLOBALISATION' – MEP VIOLENCE in Iraq is being driven by the plunder of Iraq's economic resources and continued attempts to subject the country to the forces of economic globalisation, a British Euro-MP has warned. The resistance to ongoing occupation is fuelled by opposition to economic as well as political and military factors, according to veteran peace campaigner Caroline Lucas. Attacks on Iraqi and US security forces will continue as long as attempts to prise open Iraqi markets to international trade and foreign investors are maintained, the Green Party MEP will tell a Stop the War meeting in Bristol tonight. .. " The violence in Iraq has shown no signs of abating since last weekends election, dashing Blair's hopes that the issue will now go away until after the general election here in the UK. " The attacks – such as the two reported car bombings which killed 33 Iraqi police officers just last night – will continue as long as the occupying forces preside over the take-over of the Iraqi economy by the forces of globalisation. " Dr Lucas, who is co-president of the European Parliament's cross-party groups on peace and globalisation, a member of CND's national council and serves on the advisory board for the International Forum on Globalisation, will make her comments at a public meeting hosted by the Stop the War coalition in Bristol tonight. She will join former MP Tony Benn and Edd Cherrie of UK Veterans & Families For Peace on the panel at the meeting, which takes place at The Council House, College Green from 7.30pm. Citing `Order 81', the new Iraqi law prohibiting Iraqi farmers from re-using saved wheat seeds and obliging them to abandon traditional agricultural methods in the face of international intellectual property laws granting wheat patents to US-owned agribusiness firms, Dr Lucas said Iraqi self-determination is as much about economic as military control. " Resistance to the occupation will continue as long as allied forces – and those Iraqis trained by them - continue behaving like an occupation force and presiding over the transfer of power and resources from Iraq to their political sponsors `back home', " said Dr Lucas. " Forcing the oldest agricultural economy in the world to abandon its traditional practises, justifying doing so by claiming that the effect of the west's own sanctions regime is evidence that local methods are failing, is indicative of the allies real intent in Iraq: opening its economy up to the forces of economic globalisation and establishing the framework for a profitable future for US firms doing business in Iraq. " This has been the agenda of colonial occupation forces throughout history: and the experience of India and Africa teach us that `insurgent' violence continues, at terrible human costs, until the occupation ends economically, politically and militarily. " The South-East Euro-MP added: " Last week's historic, if flawed, election was a step forward for the peoples of Iraq, but only a tiny first step. It's no surprise that it hasn't put a stop to the violence. " ENDS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 > Dr Lucas, who is co-president of the European Parliament's > cross-party > groups on peace and globalisation, a member of CND's national > council > and > serves on the advisory board for the International Forum on > Globalisation, > will make her comments at a public meeting hosted by the Stop the War > coalition in Bristol tonight. Just in case there's anyone else from Bristol.... it was actually last night!!! :-) BB Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Did you go to it? BB Jo - " Peter " <metalscarab Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:17 PM Re: Iraq Violence Fuelled By Globalisation > > > Dr Lucas, who is co-president of the European Parliament's > > cross-party > > groups on peace and globalisation, a member of CND's national > > council > > and > > serves on the advisory board for the International Forum on > > Globalisation, > > will make her comments at a public meeting hosted by the Stop the War > > coalition in Bristol tonight. > > Just in case there's anyone else from Bristol.... it was actually last > night!!! :-) > > BB > Peter > > > > > > To send an email to - > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 > Did you go to it? Yep - Tony Benn was as good as ever, and Caroline Lucas was fairly interesting. It was a huge gathering - the main hall got filled up completely, and they had to use another room in the building with the speakers rotating! I gather there's a march in London on March 19th to call for the troops to be pulled out of Iraq. BB Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Sounds good - I like Tony Benn. We were thinking of going to the demonstration in March. Hopefully it will be ~big~. BB Jo > Yep - Tony Benn was as good as ever, and Caroline Lucas was fairly > interesting. It was a huge gathering - the main hall got filled up > completely, and they had to use another room in the building with the > speakers rotating! > > I gather there's a march in London on March 19th to call for the troops to > be pulled out of Iraq. > > BB > Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 > Sounds good - I like Tony Benn. We were thinking of going to the > demonstration in March. Hopefully it will be ~big~. There seems to be some interest from this neck of the woods, and there'll probably be some of the reclaiming bunch going... BB Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 , " Peter " <metalscarab@c...> wrote: > > Did you go to it? > > Yep - Tony Benn was as good as ever, and Caroline Lucas was fairly > interesting. It was a huge gathering - the main hall got filled up > completely, and they had to use another room in the building with the > speakers rotating! > > I gather there's a march in London on March 19th to call for the troops to > be pulled out of Iraq. > > BB > Peter Details for those who are interested: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ There's also a Kyoto climate march this saturday (12th Feb): http://www.campaigncc.org/ I'm planning on going to both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 Thanks for the info Libby. Jo > > > Details for those who are interested: > > http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ > > There's also a Kyoto climate march this saturday (12th Feb): > > http://www.campaigncc.org/ > > I'm planning on going to both. > > > > > > > > > To send an email to - > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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