Following this year’s Sydney Social forum (27-29 August), there has been a call for a protest against the Forbes’ CEO Conference on the 30th at the Sydney Opera House. I was at a forum last night where there was talk or oganising buses from Melbourne to Sydney for the event.

I’d suggest that this is a good protest for people to attend if they are concerned about the erosion of democracy and the neo-liberal global order.

Here’s that the Sydney Social Forum have to say about the conference:

Forbes magazine is an American business and financial publication, perhaps best-known for its many periodic lists of wealth. Steve Forbes, chief executive officer, is a right-wing member of the US Republican Party who has twice nominated for President.

Forbes is a founding member, along with Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Francis Fukuyama,JebBush, Dan Quayle and others, of the right-wing think-tankProject For the New American Century.

Like the World Economic Forum, the Forbes Annual Global CEO Conference is becoming an important part of the calendar of the global elite.

Previous participants include Amcor, BHP, BP, Boeing, Citibank, Commonwealth Bank, Chevron, Dow Corning, Dupont, Exxon-Mobil, General Motors Holden,Haliburton, McDonalds, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Monsanto, Nestle, Nike, News Ltd, Rio Tinto, Shell,Siemans, Westfield, and Western Mining.

A flyer for the protests can be found here.

And more details can be found at the 30A site: http://www.30a.org