Envie de participer au Contre G20 ?
* Assistez au LCD - #NoG20 : Contre le sommet des riches, bloquons leur monde !
Let’s use the Anti-G20 G20 G20 : Le Groupe des vingt (G20) est un groupe composé de dix-neuf pays et de l’Union européenne dont les ministres, les chefs de banques centrales et les chefs d’État se réunissent régulièrement. Il a été créé en 1999, après la succession de crises financières dans les années 1990. Il vise à favoriser la concertation internationale, en intégrant le principe d’un dialogue élargi compte tenu du poids économique croissant pris par un certain nombre de pays. Sont membres : Allemagne, Afrique du Sud, Arabie saoudite, Argentine, Australie, Brésil, Canada, Chine, Corée du Sud, États-Unis, France, Inde, Indonésie, Italie, Japon, Mexique, Royaume-Uni, Russie, Turquie, l’Union européenne (représentée par le Président du conseil et celui de la Banque centrale européenne). mobilization as stage and step of our struggles for a Europe from below.
We are living in turbulent times. The “old world” we have known and fought against is crumbling. However, “the new” that is currently emerging does not come about with any signs of positive change. Rather, this is a “time of monsters” appearing all too clear and in frightening speed ! In this mess, political responses of global capitalism vary from the „business as usual“ of the neoliberal élites up to old and new populist right- wings, that offer nationalist and protectionist proposals with a return to reactionary, authoritarian and deeply asocial modes of ruling. In their competition for political power, they presuppose and feed into each other. It truly is the time of monsters ! A time of systematic denial and restriction of fundamental social and civil rights to all, a time of intense social and political precarity, a time of “the survival of the fittest”.
It could be a place to offer a positive and strong vision of our Europe − a Europe of solidarity, for all and without borders − as a credible alternative to all globalization critiques coming from the right. We will continue to fight for the universality of social rights, born out of a Europe of struggles. We urge you to think of this process as a common convergence platform, capable to concentrate in Hamburg the social counter-power of rupture and disobedience, to build connections and alternatives. Thereby, we under- stand the G20 mobilization rather as a “stage” than a goal in itself : a possible point of converging “on the streets” which European movements could and should use as a step in a longer process, highlighting that our struggles will continue after the G20 summit and that we will gather after the G20 mobilization in order to evaluate where we are at then.
At the end of November, on the occasion of the AlterSummit meeting in Brussels, we met to consult on the possible role of Blockupy International within the mobilization against the G20. We met as people coming from different networks and movements across Europe, including Solidaires, Sud PTT and Attac France, EuroNomade, European Alternatives and DiEM25, Transform, AlterSummit, Act ! and DIE LINKE as well as Plan C, Occupy Frankfurt, Social Centres from Emilia-Romagna and the interventionist Left. We shared the opinion that the dynamic and stage opening up around the G20 could be a chance for our transnational struggle and process. Moreover, we discussed the possibility of Blockupy International (without any pre- sumption of “branding” or foolish ambitions of subsuming everything that moves in Europe) supporting as political infrastructure, promoting and bridging the G20 process on a European level and above all to encourage the integration and active participation of other international forces within the existing anti-G20 preparatory process.
There are already possible intermediate milestones of this path to follow : the 18th of March a mobilisation around the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Baden-Baden and the same day in which the City Plaza Hotel (from Athens -Greece) called for an international action day against austerity, freedom of circulation and social rights. Another date is the 25th of March when the upcoming protests against the EU Chiefs of gov- ernment summit for the 70th anniversary of EC Treaties in Rome take place. Another point could be the G7 G7 Groupe réunissant les pays les plus puissants de la planète : Allemagne, Canada, États-Unis, France, Grande-Bretagne, Italie, Japon. Leurs chefs d’État se réunissent chaque année généralement fin juin, début juillet. Le G7 s’est réuni la première fois en 1975 à l’initiative du président français, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. meeting on climate and environmental issues planed in Italy for June. And of course, there are more – es- pecially in the process of several national frightening election campaigns and (truly neoliberal) steps to- wards the Brexit.
Please let us know what your networks and organization think. Get in touch with us throughout December and January (contact us via international@blockupy-frankfurt.org or sign up to our Email list : internation- al@blockupy-frankfurt.info). We will send all further information as soon as possible – and might call up on you for a consultation beforehand through Email or phone.
Hope to see you in spring for the proposed meeting and in July for the NoG20 protest !