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Dave Kellaway reports from Italy on the G20 protests
“Voi la malattia, noi la cura”, “Voi il G20, noi il future.” These were the key slogans heard in Rome on 30 0ctober. “You are the illness, We are the cure. You are the G20. We are the future.” Militant eco-activists joined with class (…)
The anti-G7 meeting at Hendaye and Irun has brought together thousands of participants and provided the opportunity to organize hundreds of activities, bring to life a camp of alternatives and multiply the number of actions and street demonstrations.
We are mobilising against a divided G7 (…)
The international anti-capitalist movement is back on the streets. On 8 July, 76,000 people demonstrated against the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany – the largest such mobilisation in at least 10 years.
Many people did everything possible to prevent such a large gathering, not least Hamburg (…)
One day after and some rest one may finally ask the question what did the summit achieve for whom politically?
This is the attempt approaching the reality of the G20 summit. It will name the deeply undemocratic and aggressive behavior of the police, the impressive and courageous protest, and (…)
There are police checkpoints on all the major roads in and out of St Pauli and Sternschanze, the leftist districts at the heart of Hamburg. Helicopters fly overhead constantly, providing the backdrop to discussions on street corners and in parks. The patrol cars that are sent through the (…)
Hamburg officials are ramping up security as thousands of demonstrators head to the port city this weekend to confront world leaders.
German police deployed a water cannon and pepper spray to disperse around 500 protesters in Hamburg, ahead of the Group of 20 (G20) Summit this weekend, where (…)
SOLIDARITY WITHOUT BORDERS INSTEAD OF G20!
Coalition Call to Action for the Major demonstration against the G20 summit on Saturday, July 8 in Hamburg!
FEB 17, 2017
Something is going very wrong in the world:
• There seems to be no end to wars and armed conflicts as in Syria, Iraq or (…)
To all social movements and civil society organizations,
The G20 Counter-Summit was held during the last two days in St-Petersburg, Russia, gathering more than 30 international delegates of social movements to share visions and analysis with Russian groups, and keep building our articulation (…)
A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament, GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time. The message which is signed by MEPS from Denmark, Greece, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Sweden was initiated by the (…)
Flavia Verri and Gilles Pagaille – In the context of global crisis, what is at stake at the G20 meeting under French presidency?
Eric Toussaint – The crisis is worsening, especially for the most industrialized countries. The governments of the so called “emerging” countries such as Brazil, (…)
Thirty four citizens’ organizations - associations, trade unions, social movements and citizens – are calling for a mobilization on 21-22 May 22 against the illegitimate G8.
The G8 will meet in Deauville on 26-27 May. The eight most powerful heads of state share the responsibility for a (…)
In November, France will take over the Presidency of the G8 and the G20 and will be organizing their summits in June and November 2011. But while summits pass, the economic, financial, ecological and social crises remain. The last G8 and G20 meetings (in Pittsburgh 2009 and Toronto 2010) did not (…)
A beautiful, partecipated and stirring demonstration , the march held in L’Aquila against G8 and for 100% reconstruction.
More than 10 thousands workers, students and young people, citizens coming from L’Aquila and the region of Abruzzo answered with enthusiasm to the national call of Cobas, (…)
“The trouble makers are out in force again”, George Monbiot wrote on April 1 in the Guardian Online.
“Dressed in black, their faces partly obscured, some of them appear to be interested only in violent confrontation. It’s almost as if they are deliberately raising the temperature, pushing and (…)
London: Demonstrators attend the Put People First march through central London, beginning several days of protest surrounding the G20.
They hoped for 10,000, but in the end more than triple that number turned out on London’s streets for the biggest demonstration since the beginning of the (…)
Summary of the Intervention of Joop de Koeijer, member of the coordinating committee of the European Coordination Via Campesina at the climate panel during the Put People First mobilisation on the 28th of March in London at the occasion of the G20 meeting. (…)
WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURE: 13 ITALIAN ACTIVISTS RISK TO GO TO JAIL FOR YEARS ONLY BECAUSE THEY ORGANIZED THE 2001 GENOA ANTI G8 DEMOSTRATIONS Dear comrades and friends, please sign the following call. 13 of us are risking to go to jail for years. They are charged only of their social and (…)
Year after year the G8 has been content with empty announcements those countries have no intention to put into practice while displaying fierce repression against peaceful demonstrators. Nine members of CADTM France and of CADTM Belgium were detained for over 48 hours, without any valid reason. (…)
Two years ago we were assaulted with the spectacle of Bono and Bob Geldof promising to help “make poverty history”. The two pop stars, both well past their use-by date, played leading roles in organising the 2005 anti-poverty Live 8 concerts and as a result scored a much-reported invite to (…)
As of yesterday, Wednesday 6 June 2007, 9 young men and women from Belgium (including Geert from CADTM in Antwerp, Laurent A. from CADTM Brussels, John Vander Borre from ACC Liège) as well as the following CADTM network members from France (Jeanne Semin from CADTM Lyon, Sylvain Dropsy from (…)
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