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This article came by email from A-info Tuesday morning. It originated in Ireland. It includes an protest the G8 poster in PDF and a number of links.
"Believing I live in a reality constructed by my own consciousness does imply a schizophrenic state that ignores the existence of others and their beliefs...It is possible to recognize the beliefs of others and the ways in which those beliefs influence you, while at the same time maintaining your own independence from those beliefs." from Beyond Radicalism by Lawrence E. Christopher
"Believing I live in a reality constructed by my own consciousness does imply a schizophrenic state that ignores the existence of others and their beliefs...It is possible to recognize the beliefs of others and the ways in which those beliefs influence you, while at the same time maintaining your own independence from those beliefs." from Beyond Radicalism by Lawrence E. Christopher
Subject: [IndyBay] What is wrong with the G8
Date: 17 Jul 2001 09:41:06 MDT
From: Joe Black <revolt.news [at] usa.net>
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To: <AP_discuss [at] egroups.com>
CC: <ATU [at] listbot.com>
________________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
http://www.ainfos.ca/
________________________________________________
What is wrong with the G8
A PDF file of thisleaflet for you to print out
and distribute is available at
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/leaf/genoa.html
------
G8 protests in Genoa
- the anti-capitalist struggle continues
Over the weekend of July 19/20/21 tends of thousands of
people from all over the world will be in Genoa to
protest against the G8 meeting there. Genoa will join
Seattle, London, Prague and Quebec as the scene of
confrontation between the forces of capitalist
globalisation (neo liberalism) and those who believe
other worlds are possible.
Make no mistake, in Genoa, as elsewhere two
incompatible visions of the world will collide. On the
one side are the G8, the most powerful governments of
the planet. They are Canada, France, Germany, Japan,
Great Britain, Italy, Russia and the United States. On
the other are tens of thousands of ordinary people,
many of them citizens of these countries.
The G8 summits effectively decide what sort of world
you and your children will live in. Behind closed
doors decisions are made that mean our environment is
sacrificed to profit, our health service is run down
and privatised and millions of people continue to die
for want of clean water and basic medicine.
The G8 summit will plan directives to the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which impose
cuts in education and healthcare through "Structural
Adjustment Programmes". According to Trocaire "Sub
Saharan Africa still pays US$37 million each day in
debt repayments while seven million children die
annually as a direct result of the loss of resources
through debt repayments". These are the results of the
neo liberal (or free market) dictatorship that the G8
is imposing on the planet.
In 1998, that 20 percent of the world's people living
in the highest-income countries accounted for 86
percent of total private consumption expenditures while
the poorest 20 percent accounted for only 1.3 percent.
And things are getting worse, not better, three decades
ago the poorest 20% accounted for 2.3 percent.
But this is not simply a case of the people of the rich
western countries screwing the people of the third
world. The figures demonstrate this also. The United
States is the most powerful economic power on Earth.
In 1999 Bill Gates had more wealth than the bottom 45
percent of American households. As of 1995 the wealth
of the top one percent of Americans was greater than
that of the bottom 95 percent. And there also things
are getting worse. In 1999 Business Week revealed that
top executives earned 419 times the average wage of a
blue-collar worker, up from 326:1 in 1998. In 1980,
the ratio was 42:1
There will be thousands of anarchists taking part in
the demonstrations in Genoa. We say the G8 is at the
top of a system of exploitation and human misery, a
system whose role it is to preserve. We are not
pleading with them to be reasonable. We are saying
their world must come to an end! The world's people
need an economy based on filling their needs, not on
making profits. We need a political system without
professional politicians; a federation of self managed
communities and workplaces. This is not a demand we
make of the G8 - the world we need cannot come from
above but must be won through the struggle of all of us
below.
-----
Debt relief & Democracy
Polls show huge majorities in favour of debt
cancellation. In Britain for instance 69% of the public
would have liked to see the government celebrate the
Millennium by cancelling Third World debts. In Ireland
hundreds of thousands signed a Jubilee 2000 petition
for debt cancellation.
While the G8 summit, for PR reasons, talks of poverty
relief the reality is that even the limited debt
cancellation programs agreed to date have been
farcical. The report From Debt to Poverty Eradication
revealed that "The total reduction in debt repayments
delivered for all 41 countries since the adoption of
the HIPC (Highly Indebted Poor Countries) programme in
1996 amounted to only US$1.1 billion. In that time, the
41 HIPC countries paid a total of US$35 billion towards
their outstanding debts".
This is the reality of the G8. This is why tens of
thousands people will demonstrate in Genoa this
weekend. But it is also the reality of capitalism.
All the G8 countries claim to be democracies, their
rulers claim to represent the interests of the
population. In reality they represent the big
companies based there. These are the companies which
not only pay their election bills (George Bush got
seventy five million dollars from oil companies towards
his election expenses) but who own the mass media.
This same media that will tell you that the Genoa
protesters are a combination of mindless hooligans or
misguided innocents.
-------
News from Genoa
You can't trust the mainstream Irish media to
accurately report what is happening in Genoa.
If you have internet access there are many alternative
news sources available. For links to them and
background details go to http://www.struggle.ws/global.html or
join the mailing list by sending an email to
global_irl-subscribe [at] yahoogroups.com
Dozens of eyewitness reports, photos, sound files and
even video direct from the protesters at
http://www.indymedia.org/
---
You can download the PDF file of this leaflet from
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/leaf/genoa.html
-----
Events in Dublin
Join us in distributing this leaflet (text above) on
Thursday 19th July at
16.30 at Tara Street Dart Station
18.00 Bottom of Grafton Street
or on Saturday 21st from 12.30 at the Central Bank
(Globalise Resistance meeting from 13.00)
Monday 23nd - Anarchist meeting
Eyewitness report from the Genoa demonstrations
8pm in the Bachelor Inn (upstairs), Bachelors Walk
(beside O'Connell Bridge)
Irish anarchists who will have just returned from the
anti-G8 demonstrations in Genoa will give an account of
their experiences there.
Saturday 28th - Irish demonstration
Workshops in Liberty Hall from 11.00, march from
outside at 15.00. Organised by Globalise Resistance
--- PDF Poster ---
A poster advertising independent media sources has
also been added to a non WSM section of the site, we
include details of this below. It is also focused on
Genoa.
-----
What is really happening in Genoa?
Are you not able to get to Genoa but would like to help
the protests. One way you can help is by getting news
out about what is happening where you live. But even
better is if you can show others how to get this
information themselves.
To help with this the Struggle collective have produced
a PDF poster that advertises indymedia and our own page
of link on this struggle. Anyone can go to our site,
print out and then copy and distribute locally copies
of this poster. The text of it is below, you will also
find a small gif of it on the site itself. There are
more instructions on the site
We have previously done similar posters for the
Zapatista march and for the May Day protests. Hundreds
of people reported using these posters, see our PDF
page for details.
Download the poster from
http://struggle.ws/pdf/genoa_poster.html
--Text of poster ---
What is really happening in Genoa?
The main stream media has consistently lied about the
growing wave of anticapitalist protests, from J18
London to S26 Prague, to Quebec.
[graphic from Prague]
You can't expect them to tell you what is really
happening in Genoa but if you have the internet you can
find out yourself!
Dozens of eyewitness reports, photos, sound files and
even video direct from the protesters at
http://www.indymedia.org/
Background information and links to details of previous
protests at
http://www.struggle.ws/global.html
----
Download the poster from
http://struggle.ws/pdf/genoa_poster.html
or download the leaflet from
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/leaf/genoa.html
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http://www.struggle.ws/wsm.html
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and subscribe to the AP list
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Date: 17 Jul 2001 09:41:06 MDT
From: Joe Black <revolt.news [at] usa.net>
Reply-To: IndyBay [at] yahoogroups.com
To: <AP_discuss [at] egroups.com>
CC: <ATU [at] listbot.com>
________________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
http://www.ainfos.ca/
________________________________________________
What is wrong with the G8
A PDF file of thisleaflet for you to print out
and distribute is available at
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/leaf/genoa.html
------
G8 protests in Genoa
- the anti-capitalist struggle continues
Over the weekend of July 19/20/21 tends of thousands of
people from all over the world will be in Genoa to
protest against the G8 meeting there. Genoa will join
Seattle, London, Prague and Quebec as the scene of
confrontation between the forces of capitalist
globalisation (neo liberalism) and those who believe
other worlds are possible.
Make no mistake, in Genoa, as elsewhere two
incompatible visions of the world will collide. On the
one side are the G8, the most powerful governments of
the planet. They are Canada, France, Germany, Japan,
Great Britain, Italy, Russia and the United States. On
the other are tens of thousands of ordinary people,
many of them citizens of these countries.
The G8 summits effectively decide what sort of world
you and your children will live in. Behind closed
doors decisions are made that mean our environment is
sacrificed to profit, our health service is run down
and privatised and millions of people continue to die
for want of clean water and basic medicine.
The G8 summit will plan directives to the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which impose
cuts in education and healthcare through "Structural
Adjustment Programmes". According to Trocaire "Sub
Saharan Africa still pays US$37 million each day in
debt repayments while seven million children die
annually as a direct result of the loss of resources
through debt repayments". These are the results of the
neo liberal (or free market) dictatorship that the G8
is imposing on the planet.
In 1998, that 20 percent of the world's people living
in the highest-income countries accounted for 86
percent of total private consumption expenditures while
the poorest 20 percent accounted for only 1.3 percent.
And things are getting worse, not better, three decades
ago the poorest 20% accounted for 2.3 percent.
But this is not simply a case of the people of the rich
western countries screwing the people of the third
world. The figures demonstrate this also. The United
States is the most powerful economic power on Earth.
In 1999 Bill Gates had more wealth than the bottom 45
percent of American households. As of 1995 the wealth
of the top one percent of Americans was greater than
that of the bottom 95 percent. And there also things
are getting worse. In 1999 Business Week revealed that
top executives earned 419 times the average wage of a
blue-collar worker, up from 326:1 in 1998. In 1980,
the ratio was 42:1
There will be thousands of anarchists taking part in
the demonstrations in Genoa. We say the G8 is at the
top of a system of exploitation and human misery, a
system whose role it is to preserve. We are not
pleading with them to be reasonable. We are saying
their world must come to an end! The world's people
need an economy based on filling their needs, not on
making profits. We need a political system without
professional politicians; a federation of self managed
communities and workplaces. This is not a demand we
make of the G8 - the world we need cannot come from
above but must be won through the struggle of all of us
below.
-----
Debt relief & Democracy
Polls show huge majorities in favour of debt
cancellation. In Britain for instance 69% of the public
would have liked to see the government celebrate the
Millennium by cancelling Third World debts. In Ireland
hundreds of thousands signed a Jubilee 2000 petition
for debt cancellation.
While the G8 summit, for PR reasons, talks of poverty
relief the reality is that even the limited debt
cancellation programs agreed to date have been
farcical. The report From Debt to Poverty Eradication
revealed that "The total reduction in debt repayments
delivered for all 41 countries since the adoption of
the HIPC (Highly Indebted Poor Countries) programme in
1996 amounted to only US$1.1 billion. In that time, the
41 HIPC countries paid a total of US$35 billion towards
their outstanding debts".
This is the reality of the G8. This is why tens of
thousands people will demonstrate in Genoa this
weekend. But it is also the reality of capitalism.
All the G8 countries claim to be democracies, their
rulers claim to represent the interests of the
population. In reality they represent the big
companies based there. These are the companies which
not only pay their election bills (George Bush got
seventy five million dollars from oil companies towards
his election expenses) but who own the mass media.
This same media that will tell you that the Genoa
protesters are a combination of mindless hooligans or
misguided innocents.
-------
News from Genoa
You can't trust the mainstream Irish media to
accurately report what is happening in Genoa.
If you have internet access there are many alternative
news sources available. For links to them and
background details go to http://www.struggle.ws/global.html or
join the mailing list by sending an email to
global_irl-subscribe [at] yahoogroups.com
Dozens of eyewitness reports, photos, sound files and
even video direct from the protesters at
http://www.indymedia.org/
---
You can download the PDF file of this leaflet from
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/leaf/genoa.html
-----
Events in Dublin
Join us in distributing this leaflet (text above) on
Thursday 19th July at
16.30 at Tara Street Dart Station
18.00 Bottom of Grafton Street
or on Saturday 21st from 12.30 at the Central Bank
(Globalise Resistance meeting from 13.00)
Monday 23nd - Anarchist meeting
Eyewitness report from the Genoa demonstrations
8pm in the Bachelor Inn (upstairs), Bachelors Walk
(beside O'Connell Bridge)
Irish anarchists who will have just returned from the
anti-G8 demonstrations in Genoa will give an account of
their experiences there.
Saturday 28th - Irish demonstration
Workshops in Liberty Hall from 11.00, march from
outside at 15.00. Organised by Globalise Resistance
--- PDF Poster ---
A poster advertising independent media sources has
also been added to a non WSM section of the site, we
include details of this below. It is also focused on
Genoa.
-----
What is really happening in Genoa?
Are you not able to get to Genoa but would like to help
the protests. One way you can help is by getting news
out about what is happening where you live. But even
better is if you can show others how to get this
information themselves.
To help with this the Struggle collective have produced
a PDF poster that advertises indymedia and our own page
of link on this struggle. Anyone can go to our site,
print out and then copy and distribute locally copies
of this poster. The text of it is below, you will also
find a small gif of it on the site itself. There are
more instructions on the site
We have previously done similar posters for the
Zapatista march and for the May Day protests. Hundreds
of people reported using these posters, see our PDF
page for details.
Download the poster from
http://struggle.ws/pdf/genoa_poster.html
--Text of poster ---
What is really happening in Genoa?
The main stream media has consistently lied about the
growing wave of anticapitalist protests, from J18
London to S26 Prague, to Quebec.
[graphic from Prague]
You can't expect them to tell you what is really
happening in Genoa but if you have the internet you can
find out yourself!
Dozens of eyewitness reports, photos, sound files and
even video direct from the protesters at
http://www.indymedia.org/
Background information and links to details of previous
protests at
http://www.struggle.ws/global.html
----
Download the poster from
http://struggle.ws/pdf/genoa_poster.html
or download the leaflet from
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/leaf/genoa.html
<-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><->
>From Irelands's Workers Solidarity Movement
http://www.struggle.ws/wsm.html
Read the International Anarchist Platform
and subscribe to the AP list
http://www.struggle.ws/platform.html
********
****** The A-Infos News Service ******
News about and of interest to anarchists
******
COMMANDS: lists [at] ainfos.ca
REPLIES: a-infos-d [at] ainfos.ca
HELP: a-infos-org [at] ainfos.ca
WWW: http://www.ainfos.ca/
INFO: http://www.ainfos.ca/org
-To receive a-infos in one language only mail lists [at] ainfos.ca the message:
unsubscribe a-infos
subscribe a-infos-X
where X = en, ca, de, fr, etc. (i.e. the language code)
******************************
Struggles in Ireland
http://struggle.ws
International Anarchism
http://struggle.ws/inter.html
Zapatista Index
http://struggle.ws/zapatista.html
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§Solidarity protests in SF or bay area?
I was wondering whether anyone plans a solidarity protest to the genova actions in SF or the bay area. This will probably be the biggest event of the anti-globalization movement so far and I don't want to sit in front of my computer and read about the revolution!
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