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Stop the Corporate Takeover of Iraq!
Tuesday, February 24th 2004 11:30 am
Austin, TX USA
Stop the Corporate Takeover of Iraq!
February 24, 2004
11:30 am: Meet at Highland Mall, JC Penney Parking Lot
12 Noon: March to Halliburton’s Kellogg, Brown, and Root at
505 East Huntland Drive
Protest Halliburton KBR to Demand An End to the Corporate Invasion, beginning with Halliburton’s full withdrawal from Iraq!
Bring signs, visuals, drums, puppets, and banners!
Halliburton, Bechtel, and other U.S. companies with close ties to the Bush administration are raking in billions of dollars in “reconstruction” contracts, but Iraqi is still a mess: the schools are in disrepair, the phones don’t work, electricity is intermittent, and the water isn’t safe to drink. 70% of Iraq's workforce remains unemployed, shut out of reconstructing their own country. Meanwhile, the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq has handed down an order allowing for: full privatization of Iraqi state companies; 100% ownership by foreign companies of Iraqi banks, mines and factories; and 100% expropriation of profits by foreign corporations operating in Iraq. The billions of dollars earmarked for war profiteers like Halliburton and Bechtel are being taken from spending on human needs at home and clearly do not benefit average Iraqis.
Corrupt Dealings: Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown, and Root
Current VP Dick Cheney is former CEO of Halliburton. Cheney directed America’s first war on Iraq under the first president George Bush, the Persian Gulf War in 1991. He is widely acknowledged as a prime architect of the most recent invasion of Iraq. Cheney still draws compensation of up to a million dollars a year from the company. Even before the bombs of “shock and awe” began dropping in Iraq, the Pentagon had secretly awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root a $7 billion two-year, no-bid contract to put out oil well fires and to handle other unspecified duties involving war damage to the country’s petroleum industry.
Halliburton has been accused of cooking the books, tax avoidance, and a list of bribery and corruption scandals too long to count. In the last few weeks alone, Halliburton has been in the news for such corruption and bribery scandals as: overcharging the government to the tune of $61 million for delivering petrol to Iraq; accepting $6.3 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti company that was awarded contracts to supply US troops in Iraq; paying out $180 million in bribes in Nigeria to build a gas plant; and overcharging $12.4 million for meals to US troops.
We demand transparency and accountability, justice for Iraq, and justice at home!
Location:
Meet at Highland Mall, JC Penney Parking Lot March to Halliburton's KBR, 505 East Huntland Dr. Austin TX
Contact:
AustinJam
austinjam@yahoogroups.com
Sponsored By:
Called for by: Austin Justice Action Movement (AustinJAM), CodePink Austin, Women In Black.
National sponsors: National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, United for Peace and Justice, US Labor Against War, CodePink, Direct Action to Stop the War, Campaign to Stop the War Profiteers (Institute for Southern Studies), Democracy Rising, EPIC (Education for Peace in Iraq Center), Global Exchange, National Network to End the War Against Iraq, War Resisters League, Citizen Works, and WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom).
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