The G8 are the group at the heart of the corporate Globalization, co-coordinating a neo-liberal assault on our livelihoods, public services, jobs, wages and environment. They make promises on seeking real solutions to the world's problems, but in reality have failed to deliver in making any progressive changes. Examples of this are their inability to cancel debts' owed by the world's most poorest nations, or implement the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse omissions that are killing our planet.
The reason for this is that the G8 are not a body that can be negotiated with as their main interest is to protect and promote free trade in all its forms, encouraging maximum profiteering from the sale of goods, service, crops, and intellectual property. Any pressure to change the G8 will come externally from maximum militancy, organizing against them so as to expose their real agenda by discrediting it. We need to confront the G8 by disrupting their secret meeting; this can be achieved by blockading the summit when it starts on the Wednesday 6th July.
While we should support all protests against the G8 and what it stands for, we support the call for blockading the summit on Wednesday the 6th July and agree to mobilize to build this action as large as possible.
dissent g8! newsletter #3 – newsletter – resist g8 2005 – www.agp.org