Update May 7th 2008

NO! G8 Action Japan Infotour Presentation: http://gipfelsoli.org/Hokkaido_2008/5038.html

Action schedule

• 24-26 May (Kobe) Meeting Ministers of Environmental Affairs
• 13-14 June (Osaka) Meeting Ministers of Financial Affairs
• 26-27 June (Kyoto) Anti-Foreign Ministers Meetings, Rally and March
• 28-29 June (Tokyo) Anti-G8 Rally and March
• 01-04 July (Sapporo) Themed Actions (Rally and March)
  • 01 July (Sapporo) Anti-military base/ anti-war
  • 02 July (Sapporo) Anti-WTO, privatization
  • 03 July (Sapporo) Anti-neo-liberalism
  • 04 July (Sapporo) Farmers’ day, day of AINU

• 05 July (Sapporo) International Action Day
• 05 July (Chitose) Airport Protest
• 07-09 July (Lake Toya) Blocking the G8
• 06-08 July (Sapporo) Alternative Summit

Facilities for Foreigners

• In Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto – Convergence Centre
• In Sapporo – Convergence Centre, Camp, Independent Media Centre
• Near Lake Toya – Camp, Independent Media Centre

Groups and networks against G8 2008 in Japan

• NO! G8 Action: http://a.sanpal.co.jp/no-g8 (contact for Infotour: no-g8 [at] sanpal.co.jp)
• G8 Action Network japanese only: www.jca.apc.org/alt-g8 (around 40 groups)
• Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum: www.g8ngoforum.org (around 225 groups, most of them welcome the G8 but demand fair capitalism)
• Spring: http://www.tokyospring.org/springG8.html

Hokkaido

• Esperanto League Hokkaido: http://lea-h.sakura.ne.jp
• Hokkaido G8 Summit Citizen Forum japanese only: http://kitay-hokkaido.net

Camps/ Convergence

• G8camp08’s Weblog: http://g8camp08.wordpress.com

Media

• Japan G8 Media Network: http://g8medianetwork.org/en
• Japan G8 Media Network TV: http://tv.g8medianetwork.org
• Indymedia Japan: http://japan.indymedia.org
• independent media center sapporo: http://imc-sapporo.blogspot.com
• AMARC Japan: http://sv32.wadax.ne.jp/~tcc117-org/amarcjp

• Mainstream Media: Kyodo News | Japan Times | Daily Yomiuri | asahi.com | HBC G8

• Blogs: www.debito.org

WATCH Watch Human Rights on Summit

• http://blog.goo.ne.jp/watch-summit
• http://watch08summit.blogspot.com

Mailinglists

• For signing up to Asian Anarchist Network: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/a_a_n
• For signing up to anti-G8 International email list: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/g8-int

Basic info

• Anti-G8 2008 (and others) Action english/ german: www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Hokkaido_2008
• G8 Mobilisations: www.wombles.org.uk/g8
• Teiko russian: www.teiko.info

Newsfeeds

• english: www.gipfelsoli.org/feeds/rss2/164
• german: www.gipfelsoli.org/feeds/rss2/203

An overview of the relationship between leftists and NGOs.

The alterglobalization movement in Japan

The forthcoming G8 Summit this year will be held between July 7th and 9th in Hokkaido, Northern Japan. The related ministerial conferences will be held in various parts of the country between March and June.

For example in the Kansai area (Western Japan),

• the meeting of the Ministers of Environmental Affairs will take place between May 24th and 26th in Kobe,
• the Ministers of Financial Affairs will meet on June 13th and 14th in Osaka, and
• the Ministers of Foreign Affairs will meet on June 26th and 27th in Kyoto.

Since the beginning of this year, NGOs, Leftists, trade unions, green political parties etc. have organized several events and networks concerning the G8 meeting. The position of these networks and organizations range widely from those opposing the G8 (mainly the Leftists) to those offering opinions and alternative ways of the G8 (mainly NGOs).

Research on such Global Movements (including “anti-globalization movements”, “alter-globalization movements”, “alterglobal movements”, “globalization movements”, “transnational activists”…) has identified various actors such as NGOs, Leftists, trade unions, environmental movements, women’s movements, and farmers’ collectives.

In Japan, Leftist movements (new lefts and their several sects), dating back to the 60s, still have a strong influence within (social) movements sector of Japan. However, due to their violent past during the 70’s [1] and subsequent struggles among sects, even now NGOs are reluctant to work with the Leftists. Then, in the case of Japan how do the various actors work together?

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INFOTOUR DATES/LOCATION
(subject to change, will be updating as locations become confirmed | update March 26th)

Europe tour schedule:

28 Mar. Malmo (Sweden), Cafe Glassfabriken
29 Mar. Gothenburg (Sweden)
31 Mar. Stockholm (Sweden), Kaf4 44
01 Apr. Oslo (Norway), Humla, Hausmania

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The G8 Summit will take place between the 7th and 9th of July. Our action days will begin on the 1st of July. There will be a series of themed demos in Sapporo during succeeding four days. July 5th shall be the day of mass rally and demo in Sapporo. We propose to make it the international day of action, calling a simultaneous protest in different cities of the world. During the three days of the Summit we are planning mass direct action at sites near Lake Toya. People are trying to approach the site as close as possible to send their voices.

Our presentation consists of following contents:

(1) Action Plans

(2) About the projects

(3) Facilities for foreign visitors

(4) Japanese police behavior and Immigration situations

(5) call out

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