im really confused about this whole G8 thing...i know what its aboutand what countries are doing it and stuff butwhy are so many people protesting it....isnt fighting poverty a good thing? i saw on the news some people had "Bring the troopes home" signs, why were they protesting the war at G8? I have been watching the news a bit since saturday and the reporters always talk about the protesters but never exactly what they are protesting could someone explain this to me?
Take a look at my sig' and these http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ http://www.dissent.org.uk/ http://www.socialistworker.org/Featured/Iraq.shtml http://www.respectcoalition.org/ I can't explain it with out being really offensive, and i know a few people here might jump on me for saying certain things.. so i will not even start.
These open up as pdf files the first one is a simple explanation: http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/whatistheg8.pdf This second one is very detailed and should give you a much better picture http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/corpwatchreport.pdf oh and btw, though some of the media would portray it as such, the G8 are not the poor victims of 100's of thousands of misguided protesters. The G8 have never been about fighting poverty, rather the opposite. It is only through continued protests and multiplied numbers that the issue of the G8 has even made the press.
Haha. There are hundreds of protestors outide my dad's building in Houston. The police are there and everyone in to buildin has been warned to stay away from the protestors. My dad called and was like "Hey all your green party wacko friends are down here!"
Well, this is the deal. The G8 summit is being held by the most powerful financial institutions on the planet. What they are promoting is what they call "free trade". But the truth is, there's nothing free about it. It stands for the globalization of powerful corporations to basically rule global society, 1 2 or 3 countries at a time...that's why they call it "globalization". They tell us that it spreads freedom and democracy, but what it really does is say that either we conform to their way of life where rich people get richer and control more and more aspects of our everyday life...everything being "privatized", and the poor getting still poorer and weaker. Either accept that or get left in the gutter...as if we weren't already in this class-obsessed gutter of commercial society. Then they build their mega-large corporate outlets all over the land they want and chop down as much wood for their own corporate interests and leave our environment almost in ruin. Of course they'll never admit that in public, but that is what has been happening (now even worse) since the World Trade Organization (WTO) and NAFTA...and now CAFTA have been put in place. They take power away from the local and state level, and the federal government morphs itself into part of this corporate monster of mega-powerful global institutions that literally is striving to consolidate as much power as they can through these institutions that the G8 represents. What they are trying to get done is something that's never happened in all of human history. They are trying to form a one-world corporate state. War is a necessary strategy to getting that done. A militarized police state is also necessary, and they're also in the beginning stages of getting that done. That's some scary shit if you ask me. So that's why the protesters are now on the streets confronting these greedy war-pigs. The Iraq War is seen by protesters as just another small part of this drive toward global empire. It's all connected. Now activists of different stripes need to drop their differences and come together under one united front. And that's what starting to happen. It's been happening on a larger scale now for the last several years. After 9/11 it got pretty quiet. Now it's starting to pick up again...
