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US, Global day of action (N15) November 15th 2008*
On November 15, the G20 richest nations will convene in Washington to try to put the financial meltdown behind them and repair the international capitalist system.
The factories continue to be closed, jobs cut, pensions destroyed, houses evicted, unemployment rises, uncertaintity, horrible anti-immigrant measures are pushed for by right-wingers, homelessness increase, relationships break down and food and basic housing spiral beyond the reach of the poor the world over while the environment around us collapses.
We are living through a profound period of rapid and terrifying change, an intensification of the long crisis that is capitalism and this time the meltdown really is global. Even conservative media and staunch economic-rationalists are saying this could be the worst since the great depression... and they are trying to re-organise a Bretton Woods II project for a new capitalism.
World over there is direct action and civil disobedience resistance taking many forms and proposals of many types circulating as always and now with new consideration given the cost we will be asked to pay to bail-out this rotten system - food riots, strikes for wage increases and backpay of stolen wages, price reduction campaigns,
radical discussions on the crises, fuel protests,the sharing of radical everyday strategies for living in hard times, looting of supermarkets, as yet sporadic but hopefully growing resistance to evictions, sit-downs, protests at financial institutions and districts are spreading, thousands of the italian universities occupation movements saying " we will not pay for your crisis. " As the money and environmental crises intensify so too hopefully the struggles, with this as the stage we offer a humble proposal for this global day of action against capital, the G20 - hoping to see another thread of struggle emerge.
- Another thread that calls for common and grassroots control of our lives, an alternative to the left or right hand of capital or to put it another way an alternative to private enterprise or the state management of capital - neither a future regulated capital or the free market versions often known as 'neo-liberalism.' A world in which we create old and new commons based on our real needs as an alternative to the capitalist and state system.
- Another thread that recognises that these crises have been bought down on us by not only bankers and speculators, but also by bosses, landlords and petty bureaucrats as well as all politicians and other members of the ruling classes. They made it and it is for us to create new relationships and egalatarian forms of organisation to push beyond capitalism. We must stop them. Their arrogance is limitless. After having caused the worst slump since the Great Depression, the same fuckers have thrown the world into insolvency would now like to appear as saviors of the world economy: hypocrites full of bullshit, that's what they are!
- A thread that knows they are part of hundred of years of resistance to the rule of money, contrived panics, exploitation, poverty, disorder, repression, annihilation and the destruction of the earth on which we depend for survival.
- A thread that recognises the need for the interlinking of global social and labor conflicts.
- A thread that is interested and actively debating and possibly trying to create proposals for other worlds, - should we push for our trillions too perhaps to be used as seeds to set up grassroots alternatives, what would debt resistance or anti-eviction movements look like in our areas, what of price reduction campaigns or other ways of providing for our basic needs and freedom ?
Perhaps massive globally co-ordinated anti-lay-off campaigns, community building, unemployed workers movements, the blocking of cities, growing homeless and temp-worker resistance, reclaiming of space for social activities, strategies that asks questions and learns from other seemingly unrelated struggles - a movements of networks ...the eventual occupation of all life by your desires... there are many other proposals being considered. *
The can be no capitalist fix or new capitalist deal to the ecological and capitalist crises- we will not beg, but create new worlds.
The tactics or actions are open to you, mobilisations, blockades, sit-ins, a few dignified placards - some leaflets or an teach-in, sabotages and other attacks - we have limitless desires and long history to draw upon.
For this global action we call on the global anti-capitalist movements and all those from below that are feeling the destruction of their lives and our world, those already resisting from the grassroots or seeing the need, to organise for and beyond November 15th 2008 - grassroots, anti-capitalist action...
Make plans. We hope this day will enrich the many ongoing strategies of resistance that are going beyond protest **
* http://cutdump.blogsome.com/2008/11/07/more-crises-proposals/
** http://cutdump.blogsome.com/2008/11/07/beyond-once-of-protests-of-the-crisis/
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* Resisting Capitalism and it 'Financial and Ecological' crises during the G20 richest nations summit. Other worlds are possible - A Grassroots Anti-Capitalist anti-authoritarian call for action.