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DESCRIPTION:The annual meetings of the G8 – Eight heads of state who together 
 represent two thirds of the world economy – have increasingly become a 
 flashpoint for global anti-capitalist protests.\n\nIn anticipation of the 
 July 2008 G8 meeting in Lake Toya in Hokkaido, Japan, a network of 
 anti-authoritarians and anarchists in Japan have formed No! G8 Action.  
 Members of the group are currently on a world-wide “info-tour” 
 discussing the implications of free trade, neo-liberal reforms, 
 militarization, and other global issues for Japan and East Asia, as well as 
 their plans for direct action resistance at the upcoming summit. \n\nGo 
 Hirasawa is an activist and film critic, teaching at Meiji-gakuin 
 University in Tokyo. He has published a number of books on postwar 
 avant-garde cinema in Japan. His focus has been on the relationship between 
 radical politics and underground cinema production of the 1960s. He has 
 organized a number of symposia and screenings world-wide on this and 
 related subjects. He has been active in the anti-fascist movement in Japan, 
 and is a member of the No! G8 Action.\n\nSabu Kohso is an activist, writer, 
 and translator living in New York since 1980. He has published two books in 
 Japanese about New York`s radical culture and movements, and has translated 
 books by theorists such as David Graeber (from English to Japanese) and 
 Kojin Karatani (from Japanese to English).  He is a member of the No! G8 
 Action, and is also a member of IWW’s New York chapter.\n\nThe Global 
 Commons Foundation creates and supports platforms for discussion, 
 reflection, and action on urgent contemporary issues, particularly 
 privileging perspectives from the Global South.  GCF works to nurture and 
 sustain an evolving global commons of critical, innovative, and imaginative 
 responses to the political, ecological, social, and cultural crises of 
 today's world, emphasizing dialogue across discipines and practices, and 
 across geographies, cultures, and political systems.  The Global Commons 
 Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, based in San 
 Francisco.\n\nThis talk is the second in a series of conversations in 
 various San Francisco locations on critical contemporary topics.  To be 
 added to the mailing list for future events, please send a request to 
 kathellenw@aol.com.\n\nFor more information on GCF:  
 http://www.globalcommonsfoundation.org\n\nFor more information on No! G8 
 Action: http://a.sanpal.co.jp/no-g8 and http://www.jca.apc.org/alt-g8\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/14/18485538.php
SUMMARY:No! G8 Action Japan: World Info-tour with Go Hirasawa and Sabu Kohso
LOCATION:New College of California Cultural Center, across from 777 Valencia Street, 
 San Francisco\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/14/18485538.php
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