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DESCRIPTION:In July 2006 G8 will hold its summit in St.Petersburg, Russia.\n\nG7 was 
 created in 1975, for informal discussions on economic and political 
 questions between heads of most powerful capitalist states. Russia joined 
 in 1998 - it was accepted thanks to its nuclear arsenal and vast natural 
 resources (in 2004, Russia was only 16th largest economy of the world; e.g. 
 China was not invited to the club). G8 has no juridical status whatsoever, 
 so it exists outside any democratic framework. But it still has become an 
 important spectacle and platform, where top leaders of the world may look 
 for consensus among each other, before imposing their policies on their 
 populations.\n\nWe have no illusions about parliamentarian democracy, we 
 are against any governments. Current state of the world proves all too 
 well, that with a submissive mainstream media spreading anti-terrorist 
 hysteria, powers are yet able to submit their citizens to policy of war and 
 destruction. Russia has been one of the forerunners of these developments, 
 with an endless war in Northern Caucasus and suppression of independent 
 media.\n\nWe are anticapitalists, and we do not have any illusions about 
 national capital as an alternative to global one. Small diplomatic 
 skirmishes between major powers in regards to North Caucasian and Iraq wars 
 were quickly settled, and essentially all G8 states give at least passive 
 support to policies of each other. Solidarity between elites passes any 
 borders, so our solidarity must do this as well.\n\nWhatever labels media 
 put on us, we are not "antiglobalists". We are for a free flow of people, 
 ideas and struggles - across any borders. When G8 leaders claim to fight 
 for freedom, they are fighting for a freedom of capital accumulation - 
 according to which nuclear waste must have freedom to cross borders into 
 Russia, but people must not have this right. G8 leaders also claim to fight 
 against poverty, but in reality it is their policies that cause poverty in 
 the first place. Moscow has more billionaries than any other city of the 
 world, while vast majority of Russian population has profited nothing from 
 the politics, declared to be aimed at "economic growth", which in any case 
 will last just as long as there are natural resources to be looted. In 
 contrary, it is the very poorest who have been targeted with the neoliberal 
 reforms, such as revoking free social benefits and rising prices of 
 communal payments, which is connected to the plan of Russia joining the 
 WTO.\n\nWe call for protests all around the world during G8 summit in St. 
 Petersburg. We also call for a global convergence to St. Petersburg in time 
 of the summit - attention of the whole world will be directed to spectacle 
 of the G8, and we must show that they will be met with protest anywhere 
 they will go! We are everywhere!\n\nNetwork Against G8 (Russia / 
 ex-USSR)\n\nhttp://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/g82006/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/22/18282046.php
SUMMARY:G8 2006 St. Petersburg 
LOCATION:St. Petersburg, Russia
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/22/18282046.php
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