[fse-esf] FW: [social-movements] Call to action against the G8 -- sign on now!

[Alexandra Strickner]

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Alexandra Strickner
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
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1090 Vienna/Austria
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-----Original Message-----
From: social-movements-owner at lists.riseup.net
[mailto:social-movements-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of Nicola
Bullard
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:28 PM
To: Social Movements
Subject: [social-movements] Call to action against the G8 -- sign on
now!


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 $B!G (Bs 
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 at 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 $B!J (BNOUMINREN $B!K (B
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 $B!G (Bs Agenda for Change, Cambodia


To endorse this call to action, please email nag00562 at nifty.ne.jp


Nicola Bullard
Focus on the Global South
CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand, 10330
n.bullard at focusweb.org
www.focusweb.org
+662 2187363 (Thailand)
+336 70454404 (France)