2-21a) 5Pr %5 The Challenge to be met

Platform of Action against the World Economic Forum

Is seeking contact with groups who are likewise involved in developing resistance against the misanthropic and environmentally destructive neoliberal global capitalism:

1. We reject all forms and systems of power and discrimination: Thereby inclusive are: patriarchy, racism, anti-Semitism, nationalism, the ethnising of social conflict, authoritarianism, and the capitalist economic system. In awareness that we are also part of this ruling contradiction, we have the prerequisite not to tolerate any of these forms of oppression and discrimination in our daily associations. It is our opinion that patriarchy, racism, and anti-Semitism should be themes of ongoing discussion.
2. We clearly reject the WEF, and deny it any form of legitimization: The WEF is, with its organized meeting of Global Leaders, the driving force behind the development and fortification of the New World Order. For this reason we want to abolish the WEF.
3. We take a confrontational position to the WEF that excludes both dialogue, and any form of lobbying: We don't want to offer the WEF any possibility to present themselves in the flash-lights of the media as having "a willingness for dialogue with the civilian population", and as open and supportive of peaceful polices. The dialogue, dictated by those in power, serves only to silence critic. We are of the opinion that it is necessary, on this point, to develop a counter movement through a broad grass roots mobilization. Against the all penetrating neoliberal  thought, we want to make other social models both imaginable and realizable.

The WEF is shouldered decisively by the economic and political elites of the North. It is sponsored and sustained by the largest Trans-national Corporation's world-wide, like for example, IBM, BP, Amoco, Coca Cola, ABB, Nestle, DuPont, America Online, Deutsche Bank, etc.. With their world economic concept they are directly or indirectly responsible for war, poverty, dispossession, and hunger.

In addition to the congresses and meetings of the ministers and functionaries within the framework of the WTO, IMF, and the World Bank, the WEF serves as an informal rendezvous of the economic lobby, and the political management. There, these so-called "Global Leaders" forge plans for the future of the planet and secure far-reaching deals above the heads of those affected by their schemes. What is staged for the media as the "Spirit of Davos", consists in reality of political and economic arrangements and billion-dollar mega-deals.

Outlook: We see our resistance in Davos as part of a world-wide resistance against the unbridled economic system, and all of the institutions of the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank who represent and further develop it. Everywhere around the world increasingly more people refuse to put up with living conditions aggravated through economic policy and join in the resistance against it. Because of this the congresses and the "Economic and Political Managers" must be accompanied by massive police and military operations. This repression is the answer to a critical voice, which refuses to be integrated, and refuses to serve as image improvement for those in power.

With this paper we are seeking a discussion which will lead to a balanced unification of our strengths, and through which a wide variety of forms of resistance can be realized. The goal is, as individuals and groups, to emerge strengthened from this process and to develop an ongoing resistance.

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