Stop the Corporate Invasion of Iraq Protest October 27, 2003
London, England
Stop the corporate invasion of Iraq: picket & protest at the conference 'Reconstructing Iraq'
from 8.30am, One Whitehall Place (near Embankment tube).
Reconstructing Iraq (admission ?1099...) is a conference on 'how to win contracts in Iraq'. Focusing particularly on 'energy, infrastructure, transport and telecoms', it will 'feature top governmental officials and corporate executives'.
US and UK companies have already been awarded lucrative contracts and stand to profit still further now that the US and Britain control Iraq's oil revenues. According to a senior US adviser, 'the privatisation of dozens of Iraqi companies is likely to begin within the next year' (FT, 8 June 03). The future of Iraq's economy is a matter for the Iraqi people and not the US and British governments or US/UK corporations. We are demanding that Iraq's people be allowed to determine their own economic future - and to control their own natural resources - free from foreign interference. Protest to
include street theatre. If you would like to add your creativity to the proceedings, please contact us. Organised by Voices UK.
More info: http://www.voicesuk.org/
Added by k1m on October 6, 2003