Asia-Pacific meeting takes hard look at impact of US war on Afghanistan
Posted on October 20 2001 |
 Chants of "They Say Warfare. We Say Welfare!" and "They Say Drop the Bomb. We Say Drop the Debt!" rang on Nathan Road, Hong Kong, October 20, as hundreds of people in Hong Kong and from around the region marched against the World Economic Forum which was holding a regional meeting in the Special Autonomous Region.
Among the marchers was a small delegation of the Asia-Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), also known as Jubilee South Asia-Pacific, which decided to hold a regional committee meeting October 26-30 to be able to join the activities of the Asia Peoples' Solidarity Forum.
Regional committee members were also able to join other activities of the Solidarity Forum including plenaries on globalization and peoples' alternatives held at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Participation in the Solidarity Forum activities was squeezed into a very hectic APMDD regional meeting that tackled preparations for the fast-approaching International Peoples' Tribunal on Debt, a trainers' training scheduled May 2002, and movement-building plans.
There were also roundtables on the state of the anti-globalization movement after the September 11 attack in New York. Speakers – Walden Bello, Lidy Nacpil, Lot Felizco and Gigi Francisco – and participants discussed among others the conscious effort by neoliberals to push through with the globalization agenda through trade, how the US and the UE were using the political climate and people's fear to push trade liberalization, the need to address military dimensions of the anti-globalization movement, the need for education and information dissemination on the interests of the US in West Asia, and the campaign activities of different groups. |
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