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MANIFESTO TO BE READ AT TODAY'S DEMONSTRATION

_POSTED ON 2002-03-16 08:52:05 per
Campanya contra L Europa del Capital

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Originally posted in English Here

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Campanya contra L Eu writes

"This is manifesto will be read at today's demonstration, 16th of March, at 6:00 p.m. by the Campaign against the Corporate Europe.

Barcelona is a city occupied by the fake smiles of high-level politicians. Protected in their steel and glass fortresses, their impunity is assured. Thousands of beings, fabricated in the laboratories of repression prevent them from hearing our cries. But the world is too small these days, history has spoken and has said that things will change.

The decisions made in their summit will not stop the state and life in general becoming more precarious. They will not stop the huge exodus from rural areas, provoked by the business of junk-food. They will not stop the process of enslaving immigrants. The rivers' will continue drying up and the sources of life vanishing. Women will continue carrying the burden of poverty and violence on their shoulders. The Europe of the people and their right to local rule will continue to be only a dream.

But all this is okay because big business will work-out. The GDP will grow for the benefit of the rich. While at the of the year, we will ask ourselves, guiltily, what has Europe done to save the lives of the 80 million children, women and men that lost them this year due to the misery spread by the growth of wealth.

We don't want to form a part of the business and for this we say 'no' to capitalist Europe.

We denounce the lack of responsability and hypocrisy in the political world. We denounce the manipulation of people and the forces that create collective brainwashing.

We denounce the values of neoliberalism; we don't want a world built upon egotism, the hunger for wealth, exploitation and violence.

We denounce the blocking of national borders, of the control and restriction of fundamental rights that have indiscriminately impeded the participation of many colleagues of these movements.

We accuse them of manipulating democracy; we reject the ilegal detension of activists and demand their inmediate release.

We accuse them of manipulating justice, we accuse them of manipulating the truth.

And, we accuse them of criminalising the freedom to oppose.

We call the people to overcome the attitudes that immobilise them. We call them to take to the streets and speak out.

We are millions .... and this is not their planet.

Against a capitalist Europe and against war.

Another world is possible!