Subject: Fw: ILISU DAM CAMPAIGN UK UPDATE
From: Internationale Initiative (info@freedom-for-ocalan.com)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 16:53:06 CDT
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From: "Kurdistan Information Center" <kiclondon@gn.apc.org>
To: <EricAvebury@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 10:39 PM
Subject: ILISU DAM CAMPAIGN UK UPDATE
> Apologies for cross-posting
>
> CAMPAIGN UPDATE - OCTOBER 2000
>
> Thank you for supporting the Ilisu Dam Campaign. Your support
> really is having an impact, and we hope you can join us for a major
> event later this month.
>
> SWEDISH COMPANY PULLS OUT!!
> The dam project has been dealt a massive blow in recent weeks,
> with the Swedish construction company, Skanska, pulling out of
> the project to protect its environmental reputation. Skanska had
> held a 24 per cent stake in the dam.
>
> This breakthrough follows the leaking of a draft report on
> resettlement, commissioned by the Turkish authorities. The report
> admitted that up to three times as many people may be affected by
> the dam than previously estimated - up to 78,000 people. But the
> British construction giant, Balfour Beatty, have still not pulled out.
>
> JOIN A PUBLIC RALLY TO STOP THE ILISU DAM!
> In the next few months the government is due to decide whether to
> underwrite the dam with $200 million of UK money. Make sure that
> your voice is heard before a decision is made by joining a public
> rally against the Ilisu dam on TUES 31st OCTOBER from 12 to
> 2pm in Parliament Square, in Westminster, London.
>
> There will be Kurdish music and dance, and speakers will include:
> Mark Thomas (Activist/ Comedian), Tony Juniper (Director of Policy
> & Campaigns, Friends of the Earth), Kerim Yildiz (Kurdish Human
> Rights Project), Nick Hildyard (The CornerHouse), Felicity
> Arbuthnot (Journalist), Jean Lambert MEP (Green Party), Sarah
> Ludford MEP (Lib Dem), and Dr Jenny Tonge MP (Lib Dem), and
> many more.
>
> Afterwards we will be delivering over a thousand more campaign
> postcards to Downing Street. PLEASE RETURN AS MANY AS
> POSSIBLE to us now, so that they can be delivered on the day.
>
> Please join us for this special event - it's a major opportunity to
> make our voices heard on this urgent issue.
>
> LEARN MORE ABOUT EXPORT CREDIT AGENCIES
> After the rally you can learn more about export credits at a public
> seminar, 'Export credit for whom? for what?', from 6 to 7 PM in the
> Grand Committee Room, House of Commons (St. Stephen's
> entrance).
>
> Export credits have been used by the UK government to back
> devastating business deals - from arms sales to Indonesia to large-
> scale infrastructure projects involving forcible resettlement, such as
> the Ilisu dam. NGOs are currently pushing for the UK's Export
> Credit Guarantee Department to adopt stringent standards that will
> stop these kinds of destructive projects being considered in the
> future.
>
> The meeting is open to all, and has been organised by Friends of
> the Earth, World Development Movement, Campaign Against the
> Arms Trade, the Kurdish Human Rights Project and the
> CornerHouse.
>
>
>
>
> DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE BALFOUR BEATTY'S OFFICES
>
> Balfour Beatty is one of the companies bidding to privatise the
> London Underground. The Campaign Against Tube Privatisation is
> organising a demonstration outside Balfour Beatty's office at Angel,
> Islington on SAT 21st OCTOBER from 11am, and supporters of the
> Ilisu Dam Campaign are invited to show their opposition to the
> company's activities.
> The office is very close to Angel tube station. Just turn left as you
> leave Angel station, go left under an archway and into a courtyard.
>
> ELSEWHERE ...
> For those of you who cannot make it down to events in London,
> how about organising a meeting or rally in your local area? Let us
> know if you would like some help!
>
> WEBSITE
> For the latest information on the campaign, visit our newly updated
> website at www.ilisu.org.uk
>
> THANK YOU for your support. We look forward to seeing as many
> of you as possible at the rally!
>
>
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