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Ilisu Dam Day of Action: 14 March
Join the Day of Action!
London
The Ilisu Dam Campaign and Friends of the Earth will be launching a new report, based on a fact-finding mission to the
Ilisu area. We'll be presenting the report to Balfour Beatty at its
headquarters.
11am, Wednesday 14 March
130 Wilton Street, near Victoria rail station, London SW1
Please bring banners, placards, or just yourselves! Please call Hannah on 0207 566 1666 or Kate on 01865 200550 if you are planning to come.
Sheffield
Local campaigners from a variety of groups will be holding a demonstration in the
Town Centre.
5pm, Wednesday 14 March.
Meet at the new Town Hall, which is being built by Balfour Beatty.
Call Phil Turner on 01142 670706 for more details.
In Your Local
Area
If you can't make it to London or Sheffield, why not mark the Day of Action in your local area? Here
are just some suggestions:
| hold a stall and get people to sign campaign postcards | |
| write to your local MP and local newspaper about the dam | |
| write to your local council and ask them if they award contracts to Balfour Beatty and whether they are aware of the company's participation in the Ilisu dam | |
| find out if there is a Balfour Beatty site near you and hold a peaceful demonstration there: the aim would be to engage with workers to build support for their company's withdrawal from Ilisu. You can find details of Balfour Beatty sites on their web-site at www.balfourbeatty.com |
Why We Oppose the Dam
With your support, we will send a clear message to the UK
government and Balfour Beatty - the company that wants to build the dam - that we don't want our tax money supporting a project
that will:
| affect up to 78,000 people, the majority of them Kurds, in an area where human rights abuses remain widespread | |
| cause cultural desecration, flooding the ancient town of Hasankeyf, a place of pilgrimage and centre of Kurdish culture | |
| threaten water wars, as together with other planned dams, Ilisu will disrupt downstream flows of the river Tigris to Syria and Iraq. |
The government has announced that it will make its decision on whether to back the dam with a $200 million export credit guarantee based on two studies, on environment and resettlement. We now know that the environment study is finished, and the resettlement plan is nearing completion - so a decision could be imminent. It is all the more important in the run-up to the General Election to demonstrate our concern and to hold the government to its promise of an ethical foreign policy.Many thanks for your support.
Ilisu Dam Campaign, Box 210, 266 Banbury Rd,
Oxford OX2 7DL
Email: [email protected] Web: www.ilisu.org.uk