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
[email protected]
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 [email protected]
