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Morocco

Despotism, neoliberalism and climate change: Morocco’s catastrophic convergence

26 July 2017 - by Jawad Moustakbal

Claims of Morocco’s exceptionalism during the Arab Spring now ring hollow as protests spread in the face of elite policies that deny dignity to the majority. On Friday, 28 October 2016, a tragic fatal incident happened in Al Hoceima city in northeastern Morocco when a state official seized wares (...)
When France Used the Public Debt to Colonise Morocco

17 February 2017 - by Adam Barbe

It is now widely recognised that the French protectorate over Morocco was acquired thanks to that country’s public debt. Guy de Maupassant in Bel Ami (1885) alludes to this possibility twenty years before the event! Yet still today many historians fantasise about secret financial and diplomatic (...)
We can’t tackle environmental and social justice in Morocco if we don’t talk about Western Sahara

8 December 2016 - by Hamza Hamouchene

In the last two weeks, the touristic town of Marrakech in Morocco hosted the 22nd edition of the climate talks under the auspices of the United Nations. Marrakech was therefore the destination of many politicians, journalists, corporate lobbyists, climate and environmental activists as well as (...)
Big business in Marrakech: fertiliser industry and finance dominate COP22

9 November 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc, GRAIN

Africa will be centre-stage at this year’s Conference of Parties on climate change (COP 22) in Marrakech. According to the Moroccan steering committee, this is the “African COP”. The event will feature an “Africa Pavilion”, with activities supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the New (...)
Powering the Plunder: What Morocco and Siemens are hiding at COP22, Marrakech

7 November 2016 - by Western Sahara Ressource Watch

At COP22, beware of what you read about Morocco’s renewable energy efforts. An increasing part of the projects take place in the occupied territory of Western Sahara and is used for mineral plunder, new WSRW report documents. An increasing part of the renewable energy programmes that Morocco is (...)
“System change, not climate change” International conference Safi (Morocco) 4^th and 5^th November 2016

31 October 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

15 years ago, Morocco hosted the COP 7. This year the Conference of Parties on Climate Change prepares its 22nd edition, again in Morocco. What happened during those 15 years? Not much. COP 3 in Kyoto (1997) relied on the market to control carbon emissions. The Kyoto Protocol, which did not (...)
On the perspective of ruling classes and the elite in Morocco on global environmental issues

12 October 2016 - by Jawad Moustakbal

The dominant neo-colonial thinking represents the biggest hardship that we face in this country. We were a colony controlled by the French state that left behind some traditions: achieving success and happiness in life is embodied in the attempt to live as in France, as the richest people of (...)
Press release

COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco: What strategy for the social movements facing climate change ?

15 September 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Morocco is preparing to host the Conference of the Parties (COP22) on climate change in Marrakech between 7th and 18th November 2016. This conference is taking place in the context of a worsening ecological crisis, in itself a dimension of the crisis of civilisation that the capitalist system (...)
An open letter to the Most Honourable Abdelilah Benkirane, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco, in response to untruths about the Moroccan public debt

29 August 2016 - by Salaheddine Lemaizi

From: Salaheddine Lemaizi, Militant at ATTAC Morocco To: The Most Honourable Abdelilah Benkirane, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco Subject: response to untruths about the Moroccan public debt Most Honourable Prime Minister, I have listened with great interest to your reply to the (...)
COP22

ATTAC/CADTM Morocco quits the moroccan climate justice coalition

17 June 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

On February 7, 2016, our organization attended the constitutive meeting of the Moroccan Coalition for climate Justice in Rabat. Our objective is to collaborate with all organizations aiming to struggle against environmental injustice as well as economic and social injustice suffered by large (...)
Marrakech (Morocco): Attac’s twelve spring university banned!

15 April 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Marrakech authorities prevent ATTAC/CADTM Morocco from the organization of its twelve (12) spring university. Marrakech authorities proceeded today to the prevention of ATTAC Morocco to organize its spring university scheduled from 08 to 10th April 2016. In this morning, April 08 2016 , (...)
The Ouarzazate solar plant in Morocco: Triumphal ’Green’ capitalism and the privatization of nature

25 March 2016 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Despite the allure of the solar mega-project, the environmental/climate justice movement must question the Morocco’s propaganda and the emergent dominant global discourse around environmental governance to which it is linked. The urgent questions about this project include: Who owns what? Who (...)
The Moroccan authorities refuse to give their approval to ATTAC Morocco in order to organize the international assembly of CADTM network

23 March 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

ATTAC CADTM Morocco is an association that contributes to dismantling the foundations of neo-liberal politics advocated by the international, financial and commercial institutions, it also leads activities of mobilization and raising awareness about the wrongdoings taking place in the different (...)
Radio WIBG: Lauren Tooker on student debt and women bearing the brunt

20 October 2015 - by Brigitte Marti, Lauren Tooker

At the CADTM Summer University, the workshop on private debt and resistance broached the system of private debt as debt that is forced on people as public debt is forced on States. The workshop covered micro lending in Morocco, mortgage loan based eviction in Spain, financialization processes (...)
Stop State Irresponsibility Towards Reemerging Social Tensions

9 July 2015 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Recently Morocco has seen a number of cases of mob violence spontaneously committed by citizens against various targets which include several attacks on subsaharan migrants in Tangier, two young women for wearing skirts in Inzegane, and another against a trans individual in Fez. This publicly (...)
Press Release

Why we boycott the World Human Rights Forum (WHRF) in Marrakech from 27^th to 30^th November 2014 ?

17 November 2014 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Morocco will host the second edition of the World Human Rights Forum (WHRF) in Marrakech from 27th to 30th November 3014. The holding of this event coincides with the policy of muzzling of civil liberties of the Moroccan authorities. The activities of several Moroccan NGOs were just banned, others (...)
Morocco

Moroccan Riches’Justice imprison the young activists

26 May 2014 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

ATTAC/CADTM Morocco Statement All eager for freedom are invited to show their solidarity Today, Thursday 22 May 2014, The Court of First Instance in Casablanca decided a cruel sentences (years in prison for five activists and 6 months to four others and two months suspended sentence and a fine (...)
First meeting of CADTM International Council in Rabat, Morocco

29 April 2014 - by Pauline Imbach, Maria Elena Saludas

Compliant to the decision taken at the The last Global Assembly of CADTM held at Bouznika (Morocco) in 2013, the International Council’s first meeting took place from the 15th -17th April, 2014. This meeting aimed to strengthen the coordination among the member organizations of the CADTM (...)
Morocco

Solidarity with microcredit’s victims in Ouarzazate city (south of Morocco)

13 February 2014 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Press release Unjust conviction of Amina Morad and Benacer Ismaïni, 2 activists of the Association for Defending Victims of microcredit in Ouarzazate : 1 year in prison and a fine of 30000 MAD and 10000 MAD for Inmaa a microcredit organization as compensation. The convicted activists have 10 (...)
Final Declaration of the 4^th national Congress of ATTAC/CADTM Morocco

9 February 2012 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

Attac/cadtm Morocco association held its 4th national Conference on 27, 28 and 29 January 2012 with the slogan “for the strengthening of the popular dimension of the fight against capitalism globalization in Morocco”. Despite harassment by the authorities, this meeting was held as scheduled in (...)
Morocco : 32 years in prison for Agadil and his comrades

23 January 2012 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

January 19, 2012, the Court of appeal of Safi gave unfair judgments against several protest activists of the movement of Safi (called 1 August prisoners). Among them, our comrade Abdeljalil Agadil, Member of ATTACCADTM Morocco and the movement of February 20 (M20), the sentences are as follows: (...)
FREEDOM for our comrade Agadil and STOP the harassment of Moroccan activists

7 November 2011 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

On the first November, the secret services of Safi city (200 km from rabat) kidnapped our comrade Akadil Abdul Jalil, a member of ATTAC Morocco and activist in the movement of February 20. In the first time, authorities denied his arrest, but thanks to pressure from activists of the city (...)
The Moroccan regime violates democratic freedoms in Global Day of Action for Real Democracy !!

17 October 2011 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc

In response to the Global Day of Action for Real Democracy Now! Young Moroccan activists have taken the initiative to call for a sit-in in Rabat (the capital of Morocco ) in 15th October. At the time these young refined last technical and logistical preparations, in the local national of (...)
What the media do not show about what happens in Morocco

9 August 2011 - by Jawad Moustakbal

“The real democratic progress is not to lower the elite to the crowd level, but to raise the crowd to the elite”- Gustave Le Bon -“Yesterday and Tomorrow” After the Hassanian referendum result of 98.5% for the new constitution, announced the beginning of this month of July 2011, the Moroccan (...)
Water resources and climate change in MENA region

4 December 2009 - by Jawad Moustakbal

WATER is a typical example of common good. There is no need to illustrate the importance of water: Water is life. All civilisations agreed about sacristy of water but with the current liberal globalization which aim and operate to transform everything to a commodity, water is no longer (...)