A-Infos (en) Turkey Caravan - March against the MAI and Globalization

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No-WTO

MAY OUR RESISTANCE BE AS TRANSNATIONAL AS CAPITAL!

Friends,

The Working Group of Turkey Against the MAI and Globalization held a nine 
days march from November 22nd to November 30th against the WTO and GLOBAL 
CAPITALISM.

Starting from the city of Corlu in Northwest Turkey, we traveled to our 
capital Ankara for about 3500 kilometers and visited 18 localities. We made 
press declarations and held meetings to explain the attack on humanity and 
our planet by the GLOBAL CAPITALISM, and together with the local 
participants, protested the 3rd Ministerial Conference of the WTO in 
Seattle.

We held panels in four cities and met with the locals in their kahves 
(coffee-houses) in three other towns. We explained the agenda of the WTO 
Conference in Seattle to the participants and distributed our leaflets on 
this and the misery created by the GLOBAL CAPITALISM throughout our march.

In our march, we were accompanied by representatives from the Party of 
Labor, the Union of the Chambers of Engineering and Architecture of Turkey, 
Socialist Workers Party and several friends from the progressive press. We 
received support from many trade unions such as Energy and Construction 
Workers Union, Miners Union, Municipality Workers Union to name a few, from 
the members of the Freedom and Solidarity Party, and several NGOs such as 
Canakkale Environmentalist Volunteers Organization, Bergama Environmental 
Management Organization and the like.

We joined forces with peasants who supported us with a convoy on the 
Canakkale-Izmir Highway before we arrived in Bergama. In Bergama, we 
protested Eurogold Corporation, which plans to operate a gold mine there 
deploying cyanide-based extraction methods despite the resistance  of the 
local people, and several thermal and nuclear power plants that are being 
planned, as well as the WTO and other exploitative institutions of the 
GLOBAL CAPITALISM, including the IMF.

On November 30th, we arrived in Ankara to show our solidarity with the 
protesters in Seattle and the rest of the world against the WTO and GLOBAL 
CAPITALISM. We were joined by representatives from several trade unions, 
political parties on the left, and NGOs. Approximately 100 participants 
ended the protests in Ankara chanting the slogans:

"To hell with IMF; Independent Turkey!", "MAI, MIGA, WTO; To hell with 
Imperialism!"

Of course, we were ignored by the Turkish mainstream media. However, the 
security measures taken against us throughout our march were phenomenal. 
Obviously, the Turkish State takes this action against GLOBAL CAPITALISM 
very seriously.

Although we ended this particular march in Ankara on November 30th 1999, as 
long as this massive attack on humanity and our planet continues, the march 
of the peoples of the world and, with it, the march of the peoples of Turkey 
against this attack will not come to an end.

In Solidarity,

The Working Group of Turkey Against the MAI and Globalization

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