Page for diverse actions at the Global Day of Action against a Corporate UN on August 31







 

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In August the World Summit on Sustainable Development takes place in Johannesburg,
South Africa. Ten years have passed since the last big conference in Rio de Janeiro
and not much has been achieved. Our climate is changing, our natural environment is
dying and poverty has increased. Meanwhile, corporations have become bigger and more
powerful, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank have tightened their grip on society,
and environmental and social conventions have proved useless in tackling what they
set out to do. Our governments pander to the whims of corporate lobby groups whose
neo-liberal agenda is slowly privatising everything on our planet to the detriment
of the many and to the benefit of the few. Moreover, corporations and industrial
lobby groups have set out to portray themselves as 'part of the solution and not the
problem' by greenwashing themselves through powerful public relation campaigns. The
World Summit on Sustainable Development is becoming the biggest greenwash event of them all and the UN is leading the way.

August the 31st is the Global Day of Action against the corporate influence on our
lives. On this day people all over the world will take action to raise awareness
about the neo-liberal take over of social and environmental issues. 60.000 people
are expected to attend the summit in Johannesburg but this is also an opportunity to
spread our messages locally and globally.

The social movement in South Africa will also on this day hold a mass action to
denounce the new neo-liberal program which confronts all of Africa. The
Anti-Privatisation Forum, Jubilee South Africa, Environmental Justice Networking
Forum, Palestinian Solidarity Committee, Rural Development Services Network, the
Landless movements and the Indigenous People have agreed on a common platform to
hold the biggest independent political gathering since apartheid ended in 1994.

Join us and organise an action locally or see if there are actions already organised
in your area. Go out and protest against the neo-liberal paradigm, the privatisation
of our lives and our future.

contact uncorp@aseed.antenna.nl