The EU Development Ministers are meeting in Leeds on 24 – 25 October at the Queens Hotel. A protest has been called by local groups for 4-6pm, Tuesday 25th in City Square. They are calling for a thousand people to take to the streets against the EU's neo-colonial policies in Africa and across the global south.
The G8 again lied about cancelling debt, boosting aid and stopping forced economic liberalisation – we chased them out of Gleneagles. Now it is the turn of the EU Development Ministers who are meeting in Leeds on 24 – 25 October at the Queens Hotel.
EU Development policy is not about abolishing poverty but enforcing neoliberalism in poorer countries
Bogus aid and debt relief deals are being used as blackmail to privatise the economies in the interests of Euro-corporations
EU Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are in fact free trade deals that lead to increased poverty, inequality, human rights abuses and environmental destruction
Our demand is simple: EU get out of the Global South
PROTEST AGAINST THE
EU DEVELOPMENT
MINISTERS’ MEETING
TUESDAY 25TH OCT,
4-6 PM
CITY SQUARE, LEEDS
see www.leeds.indymedia.org.uk for updates as they happen
EU Development policy is not about abolishing poverty but enforcing neoliberalism in poorer countries
Bogus aid and debt relief deals are being used as blackmail to privatise the economies in the interests of Euro-corporations
EU Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are in fact free trade deals that lead to increased poverty, inequality, human rights abuses and environmental destruction
Our demand is simple: EU get out of the Global South
PROTEST AGAINST THE
EU DEVELOPMENT
MINISTERS’ MEETING
TUESDAY 25TH OCT,
4-6 PM
CITY SQUARE, LEEDS
see www.leeds.indymedia.org.uk for updates as they happen
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Watch out for the cops
18.10.2005 23:19
Thom Cowan
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EU Development cops
19.10.2005 23:25
Speak truth to power. Be the change you wish to see.
Puckthefolice
Back it up a bit more
24.10.2005 21:20
" EU Development policy is not about abolishing poverty but enforcing neoliberalism in poorer countries
Bogus aid and debt relief deals are being used as blackmail to privatise the economies in the interests of Euro-corporations
EU Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are in fact free trade deals that lead to increased poverty, inequality, human rights abuses and environmental destruction
Our demand is simple: EU get out of the Global South "
OK I am not doubting or belittling what you are saying but I could do with more sources as I am having to do an internet assignment for my course on the bloody EU. they fakin love em mate so if you're gonna go round and say the EU are lying scum when it comes to helping sort poverty out (like I say I don't doubt you) but I could do with some credible reading/websites that further illustrate the protest's calls,
Student wnaker