G8 circus comes to Scotland!
imc-g8-2005 20 Jun 2005 04:18 GMT
G8 Circus
With just over two weeks to go before the Group of Eight (G8) Summit begins in Scotland, final preparations are underway. The G8 (comprising France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Russia) meet annually to formalize policy on international issues. Climate change, immigration, trade justice, economic development in Africa, Middle East reform, and nuclear non-proliferation are amongst the items on the agenda for this year's Summit, which will be held from the 6 to 8th of July at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland; the UK Indymedia site will be facilitating independent coverage of the actions and events.
While the G8 prepares to meet behind police lines at Gleneagles, counter-mobilisations and demonstrations are being organized around the world. In Sheffield, there were demonstrations at the G8 Justice and Home Affairs ministers meeting earlier this week, whilst in Glasgow, the Cre8 (counter) Summit has already begun. Demonstrations are being organised by three broad coalitions with links across Europe and the world: Dissent, G8-Alternatives, and Make Poverty History. Overseas, in the United States, Anarchist Action is organizing a West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization Against the G8. However, most events are concentrated in Scotland during the first 8 days of July, including people setting up an Eco-village convergence and camping centre, and blockades of the G8 summit on the first day. These events are mostly linked to ongoing campaigns around issues like anti-militarism and the arms trade, poverty and debt, the market and corporate free trade, environment and climate change, and immigration and borders.
[ G8: Why Are People Protesting? | Mobilisations Links and Resources | Major Protest and Mobilisation Events List | Dissent! Update on anti-G8 events (incl. accommodation) ]
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Give it up, smelly hippies, capitalism reigns supreme!
Shadow Merchant 21.Jun.2005 22:03
Hey there, smelly hippies. . .
Looks like the Prime Minister of Vietnam, one of the last Communist countries on Earth, is ringing the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange this week.
In fact, he is begging for the big bad scary multi-national corporations to come and invest in Vietnam.
If there's no hope for Communism and anti-globalism in the sovereign state of Vietnam, what hope for your pitiful, ragtag bunch of deluded trustafarians?
Crush collectivism! Death to the Left!
Captalism reigns supreme?
anonymous 28.Jun.2005 18:53
Give me a break. You won't be thinking capitalism reigns supreme when the consequences of your greed-filtered, ignorant and blind actions of consumerism come back to haunt you when the clearly unsusainable, debt based, greed based, fear based economy collapses, you have no job (which you wouldn't need anyway if you grew your own food and organized locally to make everything you need to live), there is no gas for your car, no power for your heater and/or air conditioner, no food on your table and no one around you who agrees with your barbaric, low-density view of the world. Oil and natural gas, which our agricultural system is reliant on, are running out (scientists, geologists, bankers, etc. agree we are at peak), resources are being depleted, and the environment, which supports your life (you may not have noticed, but trees and plants make oxygen, clean air, clean water, food, etc.), is being destroyed in the name of capitalism and its notion of personal wealth and power. Have fun trying to eat, breathe, and feel joy in your totalitarian capitalist future. You can't eat or breathe money. You'll learn your lessons eventually.