Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:21:50 +1000
Subject: AUT: 12/6 Action Edinburgh - 18/6 Glasgow&Aberdeen (fwd)


Press release
Saturday June 12th

Demonstrators occupied two banks, blockaded a third and staged an
unauthorised march along Princes Street., Edinburgh, today.

100 people took action as part of coordinated world protests to
highlight
the links between economic globalisation, poverty, and the destruction
of
the Earth's environment.

Behind a banner reading GLOBAL CAPITAL CAN BANK ON GLOBAL RESISTANCE
whistle blowing, drumming protesters stormed into the Clydesdale Bank
on
Hanover St. . Exiting the Clydesdale, the crowd next took over the
Abbey
National also in Hanover St.and staged a half hour party inside with
druming, dancing and singing, while the bank's plate glass windows
were
plastered with posters. . Later a 100 strong crowd blockaded the
Halifax on
George St., then  marched along George St. & Princes St., Edinburgh's
main
street.
The day's actions finished with a demonstration outside the Bank of
Scotland Headquarters on the Mound.

6 van loads of police were in attendance but were unable to stop the
direct
action. There were no arrests.

The actions are being held "in recognition that the global capitalist
economy lies at the root of many of the woes facing us today: war,
systematic ecological destruction, poverty and starvation of large
parts of
humanity, global exploitation of workers and peasants, mass
maltreatment
and killing of animals... the list is endless," according to Kenneth
Johnston, a member of the group who organised the Edinburgh event.
"Globalisation, Neoliberalism, the Free Market - whatever its new
names and
attributes, capitalism has always been inherently flawed: it reduces
people
and a beautifully rich natural world to just one dimension: the one
that
increases profits."

For further information, please contact:
J12 group c/o
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh
17, W Montgomery St., Edinburgh, EH7 5HA
0131 557 6242

Note
More action will take place in Scotland as part of the June global
resistance to the G8 summit and capitalism this Friday 18 june, when
reclaim the streets parties are planned for both Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Aberdeen Meet 12 noon at the Castlegate

Glasgow Meet 1pm at Kelvinbridge, St Enochs or Kinning Park tubes
Cyclists meet at corner of University Ave and Byers Rd

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