Le Monde | January 20, 2002
Attac, the French anti-globalisation group, expected 3,000 people to attend a demonstration in Paris on January 19, to deliver its "2002 manifesto". Leaders of the organisation hope that this initiative will make its voice heard in the run up to the presidential elections, and place its ideas "at the heart of the presidential and legislative election campaigns". With the Porto Alegre summit in Brazil only a week away, Attac is the object of some concern. Its chairman, Bernard Cassen, has been personally invited by Jerome Monod, a close advisor to French president Jacques Chirac, the lunch at the Elysee. Eight ministers, three candidates for the presidential elections and the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Francois Hollande, have announced that they will go to Brazil.
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