Nice - December 6-8th 2000

Protest at the European Union Office
Molesworth Street, Dublin 2
Thursday December 7th at 5 pm

The meeting will decide upon the status of the European Charter of Fundamental Social Rights and will adopt a new treaty that will reform the Union's institutions in order to render them compatible with the transformation that will follow from the admission of the eleven countries which are currently being considered as candidates for EU membership

• An Open Europe for People not Profit - Global Justice Network leaflet calling for Irish demonstration
• Mobilize for another Europe - attac Ireland on the Nice summit, includes summary of issues

Useful links

• European Marches against unemployment, job insecurity and social exclusions
  • "All together in Nice from 6 December 2000. In the evening, we will remain for the »1st occupation« of Nice when at 7h in the morning, the European heads of states and governments meet. We will join in initiatives such as debats and mobilisations. All together, we demand another Europe for another world! "
    Declaration of War against Unemployment, Job Insecurity and Social Exclusion
• ATTAC Nice index
  • Attac's Positions on the Mobilization at Nice
    Contains good brief explanations of many of the issues that arise
• Habitat International Coalition
  Housing rights
• International anarchist statement for the counter-summit in Nice
  signed by Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland) and group from the Lebanon, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Italia, USA, Canada and the Czech Republic [ In French][In Italian][In Spanish]

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Other News Sources on the Web

Indymedia - read the accounts of protesters and see their pictures and video as the events happen

A-Infos

Global Actions news - very, very low volume

Other Irish pages on the issue

Against capitalist globalisation

Globalise Resistance

Chiapas Revealed, Issue 1 The Zapatistas and globalisation   If you want to read the individual articles on the web they are What is it that is different about the Zapatistas? The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle S26 - Zapatistas take Prague? Fair Trade Organic Coffee from Chiapas Or download it and distribute it as a PDF file

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