Call to action

Raise your voice against the damaging policies of the World Bank.

The World Bank is coming to Dublin on 12-13 November. The Debt and Development Coalition Ireland is working with a range of activists groups to organise the following activities to raise our voices against the damaging policies of the World Bank.

Support these events and to highlight out protest against injustices within the World Bank:

Join the Photo Stunt on Sunday, 11 November at 11.30 a.m. at Dáil Éireann, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, and help create a photograph for the media. The coalition want to send the message loud and clear to Finance Minister Brian Cowen that Ireland’s aid should not be supporting World Bank economic conditions.

Join a Participatory Demonstration outside the world Bank Conference at the Grand Hotel, Malahide, Co Dublin on 12 November at 1 pm. Meet at Connolly station at 12 noon and assemble outside the Grand Hotel in Malahide at 1 pm for a fun, child friendly, participatory event to let the World Bank know that we reject their socially and environmentally devastating projects which prioritise profit for the few over the lives of the many.

Write to Minister Cowen in advance of the World Bank Conference in Dublin. Tell Minister Cowen that our aid money must not feed World Bank injustices and ask him NOT to make any contribution beyond the basic membership subscription to the current World Bank funding negotiations unless an immediate commitment to ending economic conditionality at the World Bank is given. If this commitment is not given, the Irish government should redirect its aid to other aid channels without economic conditions.

For further details on any of the above please contact the Debt and Development Coalition, www.debtireland.org/

Email: nessa@debtireland.org, Telephone: 01 857 1828.