JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S SOLIDARITY DAYS
July 4-8, 2008, Hokkaido, Japan
Resisting Free Trade, Militarism and Fighting for Real Solutions to Climate Change
No more world creating inequality, poverty and social disparity
We demand Climate Justice!
Join the International People’s Solidarity Days to discuss and build our alternatives
The G8 Summit will be held this year from July 7-9 in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan. This will be a culmination of a series of ministerial preparation meeting beginning in March. The G8 Action Network, a network of various Japanese organizations and movements, is calling on all social movements, peasant organizations, women, migrants, urban and rural poor, fisherfolk and civil society from all over the world who are resisting free trade in its many forms, war and militarism, the privatization of essential services and natural resources, illegitimate debt and the domination of global finance, and fighting for and building real people based solutions to global warming, to come and join in the week of action against the G8 here in Japan.
THE GLOBAL CRISIS
Islands being submerged by rising sea levels, the collapse of financial systems, rising food prices – crisis is spreading across the world. The world is now feeling the consequences of neoliberal globalization and developing countries that were forced to deregulate and liberalize their economies are now at the mercy of this global crisis. The global food crisis is but the latest of the crises spawned by neoliberalism. These series of crises have brought to the forefront the flawed policies of corporate globalization, which has brought nothing but worsening poverty, increasing insecurity and deepening indebtedness. The policies of the G8 have also increased militarization and wars and now they are pushing for market-based solutions to climate change, which threaten to endanger the future of the planet.
We can no longer let this continue. The time is now for all of us around the world to come together and join forces to make our voices heard and stop the G8 from doing any further damage to the world.
JOIN US IN THE INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S SOLIDARITY DAYS
We invite all of you to come to Japan and join in our International People’s Solidarity Days from July 4-8. Through discussions and exchanges with different people around the world, we will build and strengthen our resistance to the G8 and neoliberal globalization and present our proposals for alternatives and strategies on how Another World based on justice, equality and peace is achieved.
We are now accepting applications for registration for your self-organized workshops, seminars, symposiums, stalls, performances and the like for the International People’s Solidarity Days from July 4-8. Deadline for registration is June 16. Please see the website for more details: http://www.jca.apc.org/alt-g8/?q=en/node/218
WE NEED YOUR SOLIDARITY
As with all struggles, we can only be successful with the solidarity, support and involvement of movements and activists around the world in resisting this G8 Summit. We invite all of you who are with us in the struggle against trade liberalization, corporate globalization, war and militarism and false solutions to climate change and demanding for cancellation of all developing country debt to sign on to this call. We urge all of you to join us in Japan and to strengthen our struggle and together, build another world.
IN SOLIDARITY:
Alliance of Progressive Labor, Philippines
Campaign for Alternative Industry Network, Thailand
Carbon Trade Watch
Convergence for community centered area development (CONVERGENCE)
Focus on the Global South
FTA Watch Thailand
Global Network
Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions
Indonesian Peasants Union (SPI)
Jubilee South-Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)
Migrant Forum in Asia
Oilwatch Southeast Asia
Stop the New Round! Philippines
Transnational Institute
Womyn’s Agenda for Change, Cambodia
Anti Debt Coalition Indonesia (KAU)
Freedom from Debt Coalition, Philippines
Gerak Lawan, Indonesia
List of Japanese organizations (only names in English...)
Asia-Japan Women’s Resource Center
Asia Solidarity School
ATTAC Japan (Tokyo metropolitan area)
ATTAC Kyoto (Japan)
Action Committee against US-Japan Security Pact
IRREGULAR RHYTHM ASYLUM
The Peace Link Hiroshima, Kure, Iwakuni
Network for Indonesian Democracy, Japan
Grassroots Movement to Remove U.S Military Bases
Altermonde
KASAI-CHAPPUIShttp://www.geocities.jp/IraqNewsJapan/
Missionary Society of St.Columban (Japan)
From on the street of Osaka-kita,Japan
Joint Action Kansai
Kyuujou net IWATE
The National Coalition of Workers, Farmers and Consumers for. Safe Food and Health in Japan(Shokkenren)
Research Group of UN and Constitution issues
Jubilee Kyushu
Action Committee of San’ya Welfare Center for Day-laborer’s Association
Jubilee Kansai Network
Food Policy Center Vision21
Space Allies
Life-Work-Movement Net
Article 9 Association,Hiroshima
No to WTO Grassroots Campaign in Japan
Community and Collaboration Research Center
DeMusik Inter.
Consumers Union of Japan
Japan Asia Africa Latin America Solidarity Committee
JAPAN PEACE COMMITTEE
Networkers against Surveillance Taskforce(NaST)
NO!G8 Action
Japan Family Farmers Movement (NOUMINREN)
Palestine Solidarity in Sapporo
People’s Plan Study Group
PAFF (PART-TIMER,ARBEITER,FREETER AND FOREIGN WORKER)
Citizens’ Wind toward “Gathering for Peace”
Forum for Peace,Human Rights and Environment.
Mirai Seisaku Kenkyujo
NO-VOX Japan
...
See the complete list of Japanese endorsers: http://www.jca.apc.org/alt-g8/en/node/22
For more information, go the the following websites:
http://www.jca.apc.org/alt-g8/?q=en...
INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S SOLIDARITY DAYS organized by G8 Action Network is planned as follows:
(This is not a final version. There are other more self-oraganized activities besides what follows)
July 4
16:00-18:00 Opening ceremony
Expected speakers:
Susan George
Ainu, Japanese indigenous people
others from Via Campesina or NO-VOX International
18:00-19:00 Demonstration
19:30-21:30 Welcome Party
July 5
13:00-15:00 Rally organized by three networks (G8 Action Network,
NGO Forum, and People Forum in Hokkaido)
Speakers (to be confirmed):
Walden Bello
Others from Via Campesina
Representative of each network (G8 Action Network, NGO Forum, and People Forum in Hokkado)
18:00-21:00
Social Movements Gathering
Speakers (to be confirmed)
Walden Bello
Wangui Mbatia from People Parliament
Others from Jubilee South, KCTU, CADTM, Globalization Monitor
Japanese speakers
July 6
10:00-12:00
Seminar on Climate change, organized by OWINFS, Focus on the Global
South, Via Campesina, Friend of Earth International
12:30-14:00
Seminar on African development
Speakers (to be confirmed):
Wangui Mbatia from People Parliament, Kenya
Florent Noel from Centre for promotion of economic and social alternatives (CPAES), Cameroon
Myrium Bourgy from CADTM
14:00-18:00 Cultural events
July 7
17:00-18:00 Demonstration
July 8
15:00-17:00 Closing ceremony
July 9
9:30-10:30 Press conference
Please join us!
The security or immigration is becoming tight.
All foreign nationals who are entering Japan regardless of its visa status may be questioned at the airport. You should say at the immigration at the airport that the purpose of your entry is to go to Sapporo to join parallel peaceful activities in Sapporo. We strongly recommend you to contact your Japanese counterparts to ask about how to enter without difficulty before entering Japan.
Please see the blog in Esperanto, Korean and English:
http://watch08summit.blogspot.com/
Please sign!
The International Coordination Meeting on Mar 8-9 and subsequent tour of the venue of G8 Summit (Toyako Hokkaido) was successful.
Thank you - Asian activists for having come to Japan to join them.
We at No G8 Action Network plan International People’s Solidarity Days for July 4-7 or 8 in Sapporo Hokkaido.
For more detail on activities against the G8 Summit in Hokkaido Japan in July, let you know it later.
For your reference, here’s information on Civil G8:
http://www.g8ngoforum.org/forum/upl...
http://www.g8ngoforum.org/english/
CALL TO ACTION AGAINST THE G8
Resisting Free Trade, Militarism and Fighting for Real Solutions to Climate
Change
The G8 Summit will be held this year from July 7-9 in Toyako, Hokkaido,
Japan. This will be a culmination of a series of ministerial preparation
meeting beginning in March. The G8 Action Network, a network of various
Japanese organizations and movements, is calling on all social movements,
peasant organizations, women, migrants, urban and rural poor, fisherfolks
and civil society from all over the world who are resisting free trade in
its many forms, war and militarism, the privatization of essential services
and natural resources, illegitimate debt and the domination of global
finance, and fighting for and building real people based solutions to global
warming, to come and join us in the week of action against the G8 here in
Japan.
WHY MOBILIZE AGAINST THE G8?
The G8 nations account for just fourteen percent of the world’s population
and yet decisions made at these summits dictate the course of the rest of
the world. And now more than ever, the evidence is stark that decisions that
these nations have made have brought nothing but worsening poverty,
increasing insecurity, deepening indebtedness, militarization and wars and
now they are pushing for market based solutions to climate change which
threaten to endanger the future of the planet. The host of the summit, the
Government of Japan, says that it will make this summit a summit on the
climate. This is rank hypocrisy. The reality is that the government, under
pressure from Japanese industry, is backing away from mandatory limits to
greenhouse gas emissions.
We can no longer let this continue. The time is now for all of us around the
world to come together and join forces to make our voices heard and stop the
G8 from doing any further damage to the world.
JOIN US IN THE INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY MEETING
We will also begin preparations to challenge the G8 Summit beginning March.
We invite all of you to come to Japan and join in our international
preparatory meeting from March 7-11, 2008.
This is our schedule:
March 7, 16:00: Press conference at Parliamentarian building
March 8-9: International Coordination Meeting & G8 Seminar
March 9: evening, Move to Hokkaido by plane
March 10-11: Activities in Hokkaido
If your organization is planning to attend the meeting, please email
nag00562 nifty.ne.jp to register your participation. You can also contact
this email for more information on the meeting.
WE NEED YOUR SOLIDARITY
As with all struggles, we can only be successful with the solidarity,
support and involvement of movements and activists around the world in
resisting this G8 Summit. We invite all of you who are with us in the
struggle against trade liberalization, corporate globalization, war and
militarism and false solutions to climate change and demanding for
cancellation of all developing country debt to sign on to this call. We urge
all of you to join us in Japan and to strengthen our struggle and together,
build another world.
SIGNED:
G8 Action Network, Japan
ATTAC Japan
Consumers Union of Japan
Forum for Peace, Human Rights and Environment
Globalization Watch Hiroshima
Iwate Network for Protecting Article 9
Japan Asia Africa Latin America Solidarity Committee (AALA)
Japan Family Farmers Movement(NOUMINREN)
JAPAN PEACE COMMITTEE
National Coalition of Workers, Farmers and Consumers for Safe Food and
Health, Japan (SHOKKENREN)
No! G8 Action
No to WTO/FTA Coalition
No-Vox Japan
Peoples’ Plan Study Group (PPSG)
SPACE ALLIES
The New Communist Association for the Future
IN SOLIDARITY:
(list of organizations outside Japan who sign on)
Alliance of Progressive Labor, Philippines
Anti-Debt Coalition Indonesia (KAU)
Fisherfolk Movement-Philippines (Kilusang Mangingisda)
Focus on the Global South
Global Network Asia
Globalization Monitor, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU)
Indonesian Peasants Union (SPI)
Institute for Global Justice, Indonesia
Jubilee South - Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JS-APMDD)
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)
Migrant Forum in Asia
Stop the New Round! Coalition, Philippines
Transnational Institute (TNI)
WALHI-Friends of the Earth Indonesia
Womyn’s Agenda for Change, Cambodia
To endorse this call to action, please email nag00562 nifty.ne.jp
February 20, 2008