Manifestation contre le groupe Carlyle à New York à l'initiative du M27 Coalition

La M27 Coalition lance une manifestation contre le groupe Carlyle à New York le lundi 7 avril 2003.

La M27 coalition cherche à dénoncer les entreprises qui réalisent d’énormes profits grâce à la guerre en Irak. Se trouve en première ligne The Carlyle group qui attend les contrats de reconstruction.
Les flyers qui suivent proviennent de leur site (www.m27coalition.org) sur lequel d'autres peuvent être téléchargés pour manifester notre désapprobation des agissements du groupe Carlyle.

A quand une manifestation contre le groupe Carlyle en Europe ?

Unplug the Corporate War Profiteers

Why we're taking action at these corporations?
We hold The Carlyle Group accountable not only its profits from this war, but the fact that it made this war possible through its investments, operations, weapons, lobbying, political contributions, media holding and drives for unending profits regardless of the toll on human life, the environment or society.

CARLYLE GROUP

Where to begin with the Carlyle group? They are the perfect embodiment of the military/industrial complex. They are the11th-largest defense contractor in the United States. Wartime is boom time. The Washington-based merchant bank controls nearly $14 billion in investments, making it the largest private equity manager in the world. It buys and sells whole companies the way some firms trade shares of stock. It is an investment house famous as one of the most well-connected companies on the planet. Former president George H.W. Bush is a Carlyle adviser. Former British Prime Minister John Major heads its European arm. Former secretary of state James Baker is senior counselor, former White House budget chief Richard Darman is a partner, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt is senior adviser, the Bin Laden family are former larger investors -- the list goes on.

As the World Trade Center burned on Sept. 11, 2001, the news interrupted a Carlyle business conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC attended by a brother of Osama bin Laden. Former president Bush, a fellow investor, had been with him at the conference the previous day. Carlyle’s former chairman is former defense secretary Frank Carlucci. With his Pentagon background, he pushed Carlyle early on to buy the largest defense contractors. September 11 brought even greater boom-times for Carlyle because the market for defense industries was suddenly up. After 9-11 they went public with United Defense Industries and have already made hundreds of millions. Carlyle builds weapons for this war, its investments drives this war, its relationships to the people of power who decided to launch this war defy speculation.

For Carlyle, perpetual war means perpetual profits.

Source : M27 Coalition