Posted on 02/21/2004 6:42:15 PM PST by BillF
International War Profiteer Protest
On February 24, protest Halliburton, Bechtel, and the other corporations that are making millions in Iraq, and speak out for Iraqi workers’ rights and self-determination.
WHAT: International day of protest to end the corporate invasion of Iraq and support Iraqi workers’ rights
WHEN: Tuesday, February 24
WHERE: In your city, at the offices of Halliburton, Bechtel, or another war profiteering company (see suggestions below)
Click here to find protests in your area, or list you own:
www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?caltype=15
Click here for a sample press release.
Following on the heels of the military invasion of Iraq, another invasion began: a corporate invasion by Halliburton, Bechtel, and other U.S. companies that were awarded millions in “reconstruction” contracts. Nine months into the occupation, Iraqi schools are still in disrepair, electricity is intermittent, and the water is not safe to drink.
Qualified Iraqi businesses say they are shut out of the reconstruction of their own country and some 70% of Iraqi workers are unemployed. But the contracts for U.S. companies -- especially ones with close ties to the Bush administration - keep getting fatter, even as Halliburton is suspected of overcharging the U.S. up to $61 million for fuel in Iraq, and the Pentagon has accused Bechtel with doing “horrible” work.
At the same time, the occupation administration has essentially put Iraq up for sale. In September, the Coalition Provisional Authority issued an “order” that allows for the privatization of Iraqi state companies, 100% ownership of Iraqi banks, mines and factories by foreign companies, and 100% expropriation of profits by foreign firms operating in Iraq. While the U.S. saw fit to approve these drastic changes to Iraqi economic laws, which very well may violate international law, it chose not to make any changes to Iraqi labor laws. In a period in which Iraqi workers are organizing throughout the country, the CPA left in place a Saddam Hussein-era law that forbids workers in state-owned enterprises (where the majority of Iraqis work) from forming unions. They have also repeatedly detained or harassed workers who are demonstrating for jobs or better pay.
TAKE ACTION - ORGANIZE A FEB. 24 PROTEST AT THE LOCAL OFFICE OF HALLIBURTON, BECHTEL, OR ANOTHER WAR PROFITEERING COMPANY
Please join the international day of action against the corporate invasion of Iraq by organizing a Feb. 24 rally at Halliburton, Bechtel, MCI or another war profiteering company that has offices in your city. If these companies don’t have an office in your city, protest in front of the federal building or at another well-trafficked downtown location.
The protests don’t have to be big - even a few people holding up signs in front of a Halliburton local office would be great! Ideas for slogans include: Bring Halliburton and Bechtel Home, Stop the Corporate Invasion of Iraq, Support Iraqi Workers’ Rights, Iraq is not America’s to Sell, Iraq for the Iraqis, Privatization is not Liberation, No Blood for Corporate Profits, US Corporations get Freedom-Iraqi Workers Get Saddam’s laws, etc.
Tell us about your planned protest so we can publicize it as part of the national day of action.
Sponsored by United For Peace and Justice, Campaign to Stop the War Profiteers (Institute for Southern Studies), Democracy Rising, Global Exchange, National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, US Labor Against War, and others.
==== Washington, DC event from Code Pink email =========
Tuesday, February 24 (11:30am -2 pm)
Join CODEPINK, Black Voices for Peace, USLAW, DC Anti-War Network, DC Labor Committee for Peace & Justice, Mobilization for Global Justice and Grassroots Peace Network (National Network to End the War Against Iraq) in PROTEST of CORPORATE WAR PROFITEERING
WHERE: MacPherson Square, 15th and K Streets, NW
WHAT: We are planning street theatre demonstrations in front of the offices of Bechtel and Halliburton during lunch hours on Tuesday, February 24. The action is part of an international day of protest to end the corporate invasion of Iraq and to support Iraqi worker's rights.
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2199
We'll begin meeting at 11:30 at McPherson Square, which is across the street from Bechtel's offices (1015 15th St; 15th & K). We’ll cross the street and gather in front of Bechtel's offices at noon. We'll stay at Bechtel until 1:00 and then walk to Halliburton (1150 18th St.; 18th & L,M).
ATTIRE: dress warmly, PINK boas optional, stay tuned for costume theme
These are going on across the country this Tuesday. I'll post a reply listing other locations. Some protests are mid-day, but quite a few are 4 PM or later.
I've emailed a heads up to Bechtel and telephoned Halliburton in DC to advise them of the DC protest. Please call the local office(s) and warn them if the leftists are protesting them. The companies appreciate that.
A separate thread was already started about the Houston protest and it is here (click to see).
FReepers, this is a fun group to counter-protest. Their numbers will probably be low so this is your chance to peaceably make sure that they know that most Americans disagree with their extreme radical ultra-left blame-America views of the world.
Please ping your contacts in the various communities.
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Anchorage, AK USA Protest the Corporate Invasion of Iraq! (February 24 War Profiteers Event - Recurring) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 04:30 pm Join the day of action to stop the corporate invasion of Iraq and support Iraqi workers' rights. Protests at Bechtel, Halliburton, and other war profiteering companies in more than a dozen cities, including Anchorage. FEB 24 (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 ':' ' join us in front of Halliburton.....in protest of WAR PROFITEERING
phoenix, AZ USA Protest the corporate invasion of Iraq (February 24 War Profiteers Event - Recurring) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 12:00 pm join us to protest the corporate invasion of iraq on feb. 24 outside of one of the Bechtel corporate office building.
Los Angeles, CA USA Stop the Corporate Invasion of Iraq! February 24 (February 24 War Profiteers Event - Recurring) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 ':' ' Please join CODEPINK LA in the International day of action to end the corporate invasion of Iraq and support Iraqi workers' rights. Meet at Bechtel at 4 PM. Wear pink and bring signs. Or dress as corporate pigs!
Martinez, CA USA Knit-N in Martinez (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 11:00 am Everyone welcome To bring the message of war profiteering to the burbs.
San Francisco, CA USA International Day of Protest - Stop The Corporate Invasion of Iraq (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 12:00 pm Join us for a lively, legal, nonviolent action against war profiteering and in support of labor rights for Iraqis. While Halliburton, Bechtel, and other U.S. companies with close ties to the Bush administration are raking in billions of dollars in "reconstruction" contracts, Iraq is still a mess: the schools are in disrepair, the phones don't work, electricity is intermittent, and the water isn't safe to drink.
Washington, DC USA Feb. 24 protest against the corporate invasion of Iraq (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 11:30 am On February 24, 11:30 am-2:00 pm, join DC local unions and anti-war groups to protest Halliburton, Bechtel, and the other corporations profiting from the war in Iraq, and to show support for Iraqi workers.
Cape Coral, FL USA protest corporate invasion of Iraq (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 04:30 pm Join us in front of KBR's office at 2503 Del Prado Blvd. South in Cape Coral on Tuesday, February 24th, at 4:30. Our signs should let passersby know that we strenuously object to corporations like KBR/Halliburton profiting even further from the crimes Washington has committed against the Iraqi people.
Chicago, IL USA Feb. 24th Labor Informational Picketline at Halliburton / KBR corporate offices (February 24 War Profiteers Event - Recurring) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 10:00 am On February 24th, join CLPPJ and others around the country to protest anti-union corporate profiteering in Iraq, and speak out for workers' rights and self-determination.
Boston, MA USA Stop the Corporate Invasion of Iraq! (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 ':' ' While Halliburton, Bechtel, and other U.S. companies with close ties to the Bush administration are raking in billions of dollars in “reconstruction” contracts, Iraq is still a mess: the schools are in disrepair, the phones don’t work, electricity is intermittent, and the water isn’t safe to drink. Meanwhile, qualified Iraqi businesses say they are shut out of the reconstruction of their own country, some 70% of Iraqi workers are unemployed, and workers in state-owned enterprises (where the majority of Iraqis work) are forbidden from forming unions.
Protest the corporate invasion of Iraq at Parsons Corporation, 100 Summer Street, Noon!
Frederick, MD USA Stop the Corporate Invasion of Iraq, protest at Bechtel (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 ':' ' Stop the corporate invasion of Iraq, protest Bechtel in Frederick, MD - soon to be the headquarters of Bechtel National in the U.S. Noon - Gather at the corner of East 4th and Market Streets for mid-day street theater and informational fliering. 4pm - Gather in the parking lot of the Westview Promenade Shopping Center near Starbucks (intersection of Buckeystown Pike and Crestwood Blvd) for a march to Bechtel and demonstration.
Kansas City, MO USA The Costs of War to Iraqi and American Workers (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 04:30 pm Picket Line at war contractor Black & Veatch 4:30 Labor Teach In at UMKC campus 6:30
Charlotte, NC USA Stop The Corporate Invasion Of Iraq! Protect Iraqi Workers' Rights (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 05:00 pm Following on the heels of the military invasion of Iraq, another invasion began: a corporate invasion by Halliburton, Bechtel, and other U.S. companies that were awarded millions in “reconstruction” contracts. Nine months into the occupation, Iraqi schools are still in disrepair, electricity is intermittent, and the water is not safe to drink. Join us in Charlotte for a protest at the corrupt MCI Corporation awarded a contract worth at least 30 million dollars.
Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC USA Stop the Corporate Invasion of Iraq! (February 24 War Profiteers Event - Recurring) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 04:00 pm Join the day of action to stop the corporate invasion of Iraq and support Iraqi workers' rights. Protest in front of Research Triangle Institute, We demand election, not selection!
Santa Fe, NM USA Pink Slip Bush! Protest the Corporate Invasion of Iraq (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 ':' ' CODE PINK FEB 24 PROTEST PLANNED AT the corner of St Francis and Cerrillos GIVE BUSH A PINK SLIP!!!!!!! AMIDST NEW REPORTS OF WRONG-DOING BY HALLIBURTON AND BECHTEL, PEACE AND LABOR ACTIVISTS HOLD NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST CORPORATIONS PROFITTING FROM IRAQ WAR
Reno, NV USA Stop the Corporate Invasion of Iraq! (February 24 War Profiteers Event - Recurring) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 12:00 pm On Feb. 24, 2004, people in Northern Nevada will join people across the country, and the world, in a global day of action to stop the corporate invasion of Iraq. We will gather in front of the local Becthel office, on the corner of Plumb Ln. and Terminal wy. in Reno, at 12:00 noon.
Albany, NY USA Iraq fund bleeding (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 08:00 am Iraq+corporations=big$$$$ War Profiteers Protest (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 08:00 am Albany, stand up and be heard. To help please contact.
Manhattan, NY USA TIRED OF CORPORATE PROFITEERING IN IRAQ WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS? PROTEST AT BECHTEL! (February 24 War Profiteers Event - Recurring) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 12:00 pm Join CODEPINK New York and the War Resisters' League in a protest against corporate war profiteering.
London, United Kingdom Stop Bechtel and Halliburton (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 ':' ' STOP BECHTEL & HALLIBURTON MAKING A KILLING OUT OF THE KILLING IN IRAQ. The Bush administration has been ‘treating [reconstruction] contracts as prizes to be handed to their friends… delaying Iraq’s recovery, with potentially catastrophic consequences’ (Economist Paul Krugman, New York Times, 30 September) whilst fleecing the US tax payer. It’s time to blow the whistle.
Austin, TX USA Stop the Corporate Takeover of Iraq! (February 24 War Profiteers Event - Recurring) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 11:30 am Protest Halliburton KBR to Demand An End to the Corporate Invasion, beginning with Halliburton’s full withdrawal from Iraq! We demand transparency and accountability, justice for Iraq, and justice at home!
Dallas, TX USA stop corporate invasion of iraq (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 ':' ' Rally in front of Halliburton's office to demand people's justice not corporate profits in Iraq.
Houston, TX USA Write a Reality Check @ Halliburton (February 24 War Profiteers Event) Tuesday, February 24th 2004 ':' ' On Tuesday, February 24th @ 4 pm, as part of a National Day of Action against war profiteers, global justice activists, anti-war activists and ordinary citizens will WRITE a REALITY CHECK @ Halliburton. Join Houston Global Awareness and other grassroots community groups for a lively, legal, nonviolent action against war profiteering and corporate corruption at one of the worst.
Damn hippies!
It's amazing isn't it? The Democrats sneak around and make backroom deals with these obvious anti-American, radical left-wing organizations, and then try to claim that they're as "patriotic" as anyone. It'd be hysterical if it wasn't so pathetic.
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