Portuguese Social movements have been mentioned this afternoon, at 18 am in Lisbon for the conclusion of a merger with initiating the symbolic march of social groups, anti union and the direction of Madrid to merge with the mobilization of People's Summit "Linking Alternatives IV" against the European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean (EU-LAC).

The caravan will pass through Porto (day 6), Merida (8), Caceres and Plasencia (9), Navalmoral (10), Toledo (11) Alcorcón (12) to reach the Spanish capital on 13 May. In each city, organized street actions, meetings with those affected by the crisis and roundtables on issues such as the social implications of the Lisbon Treaty, the militarist policies of the EU and NATO involvement in rural areas by the Policy Agricultural Policy and the dangers of nuclear energy.

The program of activities also includes the withdrawal of government plans to rescue banks and promote financial speculation and the lack of social policies and access to decent housing, especially for youth.

The suffering of many for the consequences of the current global crisis and the policies of the European Union, has led various groups to members of "Campaign Against the Europe of Capital and War and its Crisis" to convene this march Lisbon Madrid. Among the organizations that are driving the union General Confederation of Labour (CGT), the network Baladre social exclusion and Ecologists in Action. In Portugal, the initiative has the support of the Platform Against War and NATO (PAY), which also prepares demonstrations against the NATO Summit in November.

The purpose of this march is "to combat unemployment and reducing the working day and prevent regulation Records of Employment (ERE), contracts garbage and labor reform, fighting to ensure social benefits and wages for the unemployed and to defend public services and the distribution of wealth ", say the spokesmen of these organizations.

This is the public authorities of the European Union take "that society does not accept structural adjustment programs such as those proposed for Greece," say, while indicating that it is "time to build a just economic and social model, sustainable and egalitarian "versus a model that generates unemployment, reduces the ability of real wages, privatize public services and eliminate labor rights, while increasing military spending to finance wars for resources.

With the departure from Lisbon to Madrid also would like to express solidarity with the General Strike in Greece and the Hellenic society mobilizations against the plans of adjustment, and the Stability and Growth Pact of the EU.

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