London Piratical Action Tour - Sat 23 Feb
LONDON HANDS OFF IRAQI OIL
www.handsoffiraqioil.org
Announces a Piratical Action Tour of corporate occupiers as part of the National HOIO day of action
Saturday 23rd February 2008
Meeting Point: Bond Street Tube 12.30pm
Costume Code: Pirates!
(Landlubbers also welcome)
Come and join a piratical tour of institutions and corporations involved in the corporate occupation of Iraq.
See http://tinyurl.com/2oh6b7 and http://tinyurl.com/3e27pg for backgroundand pictures from a previous piratical excursion
Expect booty, comedy, sea-shanties and suprises….maps will be provided....
Corporate Pirates!
Shiver me timbers. They profit from the stormy conditions of occupied lands, economically sunk and shocked by war.
Through glittering shindigs, they bring buccaneers and soldiers of fortune together. Their plundering they call ‘development’, their privatisations they call ‘partnerships’, and their profiteering they call ‘investments’.
Its high time these booty-hoarders were exposed! Come and join the London Hands Off Iraqi Oil tour of corporate pirates, ooo aaarrrrrr, me hearties!
London is home to many of the energy companies, private military security companies (PMSCs) and lobbyists which are fuelling and profiteering from the war and occupation in Iraq.
Five years on, Iraq has two occupations – the military and the economic. One kept in place with 160,000 troops, 30,000 mercenaries, military bases and prison camps, and the other with Occupation imposed laws, IMF dictates and a coercively produced neo-liberal constitution.
Both rob the Iraqi people of their sovereignty, dignity and future independence. Both need to be resisted.
This action is about exposing the war profiteers and the doctrine of breaking populations and countries in the name of breaking into new markets. We want to re-affirm and celebrate the courage of the Iraqi people in defying these occupations, particularly Iraq’s trade unions, fighting the theft of their resources and livelihoods.
Come in solidarity, and don’t forget your cutlass!.........
See www.handsoffiraqioil.org for factsheets, leaflets and further info
