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ADELAIDE : NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN CALL TO ACTION

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 3 September 2005

Demos-Actions Governments USA Australia

Be Alert! Be Alarmed!

Condoleezza Rice is coming to Adelaide!

Rumsfeld may come too!

Fellow Australians,
Come to Adelaide in November and protest against the presence of Condoleezza
Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, two central figures in the Bush Administration.

The invasion of Iraq is a war crime

Let’s show the world that Australians reject the US’ wars of empire; that we reject US militarism and unilateralism in world affairs because they undermine peace, justice and progress in the world. Let’s tell Rice and Rumsfeld that the unjust war on Iraq is a war crime and that war criminals are not welcome here.

Australians have not forgotten that the war was based on a campaign of lies about weapons of mass destruction and lies about Iraq’s links to Al Qaeda.

The Bush Administration cynically used the "war on terror" to seize Iraq’s oil and
in the process has greatly increased terrorism in the world.

The recently established Adelaide Rice-Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) is
alerting people around Australia - whether they are involved in environmental
campaigns, the anti-war movement or any other social justice issues - that in
November of this year in Adelaide, the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean
Development and Climate (APP-CDC) will hold its inaugural meeting. It has been
announced that Rice may attend with a possibility that Rumsfeld will also visit.

Greenhouse pollution and the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and
Climate
This newly formed 6 nation group of greenhouse polluters is a club of 2 of the
worst environmental vandals in the world (Australia and the USA) with 4 lesser
polluters (China, India, South Korea and Japan) that aims to destroy the Kyoto
Protocol through an alternative proposal that contains no limitation on
greenhouse pollution.

It is now universally recognised that the greenhouse effect is a serious and
worsening environmental disaster. According to the most comprehensive survey
ever carried out on global warming (published in The Australian earlier this
year), earth’s temperatures are changing much faster than expected. The survey
warned that London could be under water within 50 years. The world’s island
nations and agricultural societies will be most dramatically affected.

Protest in Adelaide in November

While details are not yet confirmed, media reports so far suggest that the APP-
CDC meeting will most likely bring Condoleezza Rice to Adelaide, along with
political leaders from around the region. With them will come an entourage of
the international media.

The whole world will be watching. We must show them that we care about peace
and the environment and that we do not approve of the environmental terrorism
and imperialist wars being thrust upon the world’s majority by our
governments.

The RRRC calls on all Australians who oppose the Iraq war, who oppose
environmental destruction for the sake of corporate profits, to join us in
Adelaide to protest the APP-CDC meeting. We propose a mass non-violent action
on the theme of "Stop the war on the environment and the environment of
war".

The RRRC have started planning the protest logistics and public events in the
lead-up to this event. We urge all activist collectives and progressive
organisations to begin discussing how we can use this high-profile political
event to send a message to the world that, contrary to our leaders’
propaganda efforts, most Australians oppose the war on the environment, and the environment
of war.

Yours in Solidarity

Rice-Rumsfeld Reception Committee Adelaide

Contact: adelaide1105protest@yahoo.com.au