Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:02:16 +0100 From: "U.P.secr." <•••@••.•••> Subject: URGENT CALL "URGENT NEED FOR $50,000 US IN ONE WEEK (BY THE 20th FEBRUARY) If we have 500-1000 people each donating 50-100 dollars (also bigger or smaller donations are of course very welcome !!!), we will have it ! " See bottom of e-mail for name of Bank and account for deposit~ je - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:52:54 GMT Reply-to: •••@••.••• From: Inter Continental Caravan <•••@••.•••> To: Multiple recipients of list <•••@••.•••> Subject: The Inter Continental Caravan needs you ! To whom it may concern - an urgent appeal, Dear recipients, In May and June 600 Southern activists tour around Europe together with European activists to demonstrate against 93free trade94 and the institutions pressing for it (the World Trade Organisation, the International Chamber of Commerce, the European Commission etc.), against dodgy multinationals, especially those involved in biotechnology (Monsanto, Novartis...) and to meet and network with different groups across the Continent. We are going to meet with the Geld oder Leben (Money or Life) Bicycle Caravan and the Caravan of Refugees and Migrants in Germany, the Euromarches, Farmers movements in Eastern Europe... The Inter Continental Caravan will join in the demonstrations against the NATO and Nuclear Weapons organised by For Mother Earth and join the actions against the EU-Summit and the G8-Summit in Cologne, and will coincide with the International Day of Action at Financial Centers on the June 18th, which will end the Caravan. The Inter Continental Caravan for Solidarity and Resistance is an initiat ive of the People's Global Action against free94 trade and the WTO (PGA), a network of different people92s movements and organisations around the world. The Caravan will consist mainly of Indian peasants, since that's where idea originally came from. There will be activists from all biggest farmers movements from India, and also anti-nuclear activists, indigenous people, landless, and people fighting against the Narmada Dam project. From other parts of the World, there will be people from Moviemento dos Sem Terra (Landless movement in Brazil), Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of the disappeared from Argentina), womens peasant movement from Bangladesh, and there has been interest in Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Columbia, Ecuador, Russia, Thailand, South Korea... This project is not about bringing Southern activists for an exhibition t our to Europe. It is about joining ours and theirs struggles, about solidarity and common resistance. With this project we hope to be able to built up stronger links within different European movements, and between European and Southern Movements. But this project needs everybodys involvement to become true ! Although there have already been extensive fundraising efforts, and much money has already come in, there is still an URGENT NEED FOR 50 000 US DOLLARS IN ONE WEEK (BY THE 20th FEBRUARY), otherwise we will loose the contracts with the busses we are planning to use. This seems to be a very big amount of money, but if we have 500-1000 peop le each donating 50-100 dollars (also bigger or smaller donations are of course very welcome !!!), we will have it ! If we consider that all the Indian participants are each paying their own airfare to participate in the Inter Continental Caravan, then such donations of 50-100 dollars really are not so huge as they may seem, in relation to a project of such magnitude. Please spread this appeal around, publicise it in different newsletters a nd magazines, call your relatives and people who symphatize radical political activism.... With the EU having the Agenda 2000, the WTOs Milennium round starting, this Caravan really has to take place now - with a little bit of effort from everyone we can make it ! Bank details: Account number: 3701010441 Bank number: 50090100, Okobank Berlin Please specify all the money as "Busses for the Caravan" AND notify us when putting money into the account. For more information: Inter Continental Caravan PO Box 2228, 2301 CE Leiden, Holland tel/fax +31-71-517 3094 e-mail: •••@••.••• web-site: http://stad.dsl.nl/~caravan, http://www.agp.org - -- For MAI-not (un)subscription information, posting guidelines and links to other MAI sites please see http://mai.flora.org/
