We are many! We are loud! The world will hear us.
July 2017, the G20 summit in Hamburg. With the world’s 20 most
powerful leaders, in a world in deep crisis and turmoil, the world’s
media will be present. But it is not only the powerful and mighty who
will be there. We will make sure that the voices of the many different
struggles around the globe will be “on air” as well: the voices against
social inequality, austerity and exploitation; the voices against war
and manmade eco-disaster; our voices for solidarity, other choices and
visions. We know that we can make our voices heard, if we are loud and
clear. Seattle 1999, the global marches against the Gulf War, the
squares of Madrid, Istanbul, New York and Lagos, Blockupy 2015 in
Frankfurt and the Global Women’s Marches proved it.
The G20 will try to square the circle and protect the globalized
system of domination from its own self-destructiveness. And they will
try to rearrange the whole world in order to serve the interests of the
rich and powerful. This is why we, the lively resistance in our many
shapes and forms, will be in Hamburg.
Let them set their global issues; we’ll set ours. Let them discuss
their capitalist development; we will be loud against the exploitation
of labour and the destruction of nature in the name of profit, and loud
for equal rights and gender equality. Let them talk about their
“migration crisis”; we will speak up for open borders and against
racism; we will address the systematic production of poverty and war
that forces millions of people to move. Let them talk about free trade
agreements; we will be vocal about transparency, for political, cultural
and food sovereignty and against their (post-)imperialist practices
toward the Global South. Let them talk about the “war on terror” and the
“clash of cultures”; we will shout out for peace and against their
warmongering and torture, against their production of fear and
Islamophobia. Their efforts to divide us and rule forever will be met by
our creative protest and fierce resistance.
None of us thinks that the world is easy to explain. Yet we are
determined to oppose all those politicians who allegedly know best what
is good for their countries and the world. These new political figures
seem to address the social question, the social effects of a
decades-long neoliberal world order. But we know that in their efforts
to keep us divided, they push us into rivalry and hate against our
brothers and sisters on the other side of their borders and eventually
into their dirty wars. We know their plans and we will not let this
happen. We don’t buy into scapegoating the weakest of our world in the
false hope that this will change the misery of our everyday lives.
Against their rivalry, we stand in solidarity; against their
exploitation and expropriation even of the air that we breathe, we put
the cooperation of free individuals and the free use of the commons;
against their wars we opt for sister- and brotherhood, for freedom and
equality.
We see the protests against the G20 as a chance to send a strong
signal to the world that we are the many who believe in global
alternatives. We believe in alternatives outside and against neoliberal
globalization, nationalism and autocratic rule. We believe in the
globalization of justice and Rights4All and we reject all nationalist
and xenophobic “solutions”, which are their solutions against our vision
for a just world, a world united in solidarity.
The counter summit, the camp, the transnational rally with tens of
thousands of people in the city of Hamburg and the mass civil
disobedience actions will give us the opportunity to meet, to discuss
and to share our visions, ideas and practices of resistance, of a world
of freedom, equality, solidarity.
Allons enfants! In 2017 the Bastille stands in Hamburg!
The “compact week” of global solidarity against the G20 will give us
many opportunities to express the other world and our conviction that it
is possible.
At the “Summit of Global Solidarity” (July 5 and 6) or at the open
camp (from July 2 to 8), in actions of mass civil disobedience on the
day of the official summit (July 7) or at the broad, lively and colorful
demonstration in the heart of the city (July 8) we will organize and
celebrate, fill the squares and streets of Hamburg, debate and shout
out!
Let’s make the G20 summit a real counter summit of the many, the disobedient of the world.
Come and join us at the international preparatory meeting in Hamburg on April 7, get in touch with us via email.
See you all in Hamburg!
International NO-g20 work group
International preparatory meeting (April 7, Hamburg): http://g20-protest.info/category/international-meeting-on-7th-of-april/
Website: http://g20-protest.info
Planning list: http://lists.g20-2017.org/mailman/listinfo/interlist
Email contact: international@g20-2017.org
PDF: International Call to Hamburg_Allons enfants! We are loud and many_March 2017
