A-Infos (en) US, June 6 in Pittsburgh, Solidarity with Global Resistance to the G8 Summit,

Picket at Oakland Military Recruiting Station (3712 Forbes Ave.) Wednesday, 
June 6. 5:30-8:00pm --- From June 6 to June 8 the leaders of the world's eight 
largest industrial 'democracies' will meet in Heiligendamm, Germany for the 
33rd annual summit of the G8. For three days, Stephen Harper, Nicolas Sarkozy, 
Angela Merkel, Romano Prodi, Shinzo Abe, Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair and George 
Bush will meet behind closed doors at a secluded ocean side resort. While there 
is no published agenda for the meeting and no minutes will be circulated, it is 
clear that global warming, trade with China, intervention in North Korea, debt, 
AIDS, the occupation of Iraq, and the pending invasion of Iran are all likely 
topics of discussion. --- Although the G8 has no official authority, together 
the eight member nations control, either through direct voting power or 
indirect influence all of the world's major political, economic and military 
institutions. The neoliberal policies established at this year's G8 will soon 
become the official policies of the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, 
and the WTO.

As the world's eight most dangerous individuals make their way to Heiligendamm, 
as many as 100,000 protesters will be ascending on the northern part of Germany 
with the stated goal of shutting down the meetings. Calls have gone out for 
road blocks, actions at the eight mile fence surrounding the meeting, and even 
blockades at the airport as delegates fly into Germany.

But because the neoliberal policies set at these summit meetings impact people 
around the world, people are taking to the streets in hundreds of different 
protest actions all around the world. Protests are being organized around 
agricultural subsidies and GMO's; peoples' rights to migration and citizenship; 
climate change; and militarism, war and torture.

Join the Pittsburgh Organizing Group* at the military recruiting station in 
Oakland from 5:30 to 8:00 pm on Wednesday, June 6 in a picket against 
militarism and military recruitment in solidarity with the global resistance to 
the G8.

www.organizepittsburgh.org
pog@mutualaid.org
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* An antiauthoritarian anticapitalist initiative
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