A-Infos (en) US, Pittsburgh, Sept. 24: Mass March on the G-20 Summit: The People’s Uprising!

Capitalism isn’t in crisis, capitalism IS the crisis... ---- For a present and future 
worth living we must act... ---- For a world based on dignity, love, compassion and 
sustainability we must work to build it... ---- Against all systems and relations of 
injustice, exploitation and oppression we endlessly and uncompromisingly rebel... -- Meet: 
2:30pm at Arsenal Park (40th Street & Penn Avenue in Lawrenceville) ---- We invite you to 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Sept. 24 for a global justice convergence coinciding with, and 
occurring alongside, resistance to the G-20 summit descending on our city that same week. 
For four days, thousands of people from all walks of life will be active participants in 
actions and dialogues that go beyond the G-20 summit to the heart of what matters: why is 
the world the way it is and what can we do about it? The summit offers a strategic 
opportunity to answer these questions and demonstrate our ongoing resistance to the 
existing social order.

During this convergence there will be community gatherings, labor marches, climate justice 
actions, events to connect global injustice to local institutions, and dozens of other 
activities. This is a gathering of those disaffected who are far from demoralized. A 
coming together of those who refuse to be crushed by this system’s violence and exclusion, 
who desire something more than to live their lives and observe the world around them 
through a pane of glass.

On Thursday, September 24, the G-20 summit officially begins and we will hold a mass march 
to their walled off meeting site downtown. This march will not be state-sanctioned; it is 
unpermitted and intended to allow people the space and freedom to oppose the G- 20 how 
they see fit. The rest is up to you! There will be different contingents focusing on 
workers, students and climate issues, alongside other feeder marches, bands, and hundreds 
engaged in a collective effort to disrupt the summit. The summit is much more than a 
meeting; it is the creation of a spectacle, legitimizing the ability of the few to wield 
power in the minds of the population and that is far more important to contest than an 
event that could conceivably occur as a giant conference call.

This march is the main event on Thursday, something that has been acknowledged by other 
sectors mobilizing against the summit. Some of our comrades have had experiences with 
going to protests in which 150 or 300 people, mostly wearing black, attempt to disrupt an 
event and are attacked by police only to find themselves isolated and without support in 
the broader community. We can't stress enough that this is not what's going to go down in 
Pittsburgh. We believe it is time for our movements to once again realize our power and to 
start thinking and planning with that strength in mind. We’re not going to settle for 
ducking behind others’ events. We’ve got numbers and we don’t need that kind of cover. Not 
to mention, if you live in the Steel City, you’re familiar with the overlap, the same 
faces at both liberal and radical events. Planning a march at the same time would only 
serve to decrease our numbers on both fronts. And ultimately, we aim to show solidarity 
based on respect for a political diversity within this struggle. We’ll be living and 
working alongside other Pittsburgh communities of resistance long after the pepper spray 
has cleared the air and the out-of-towners have headed home. We want to respect the stated 
goals of our neighbors, to protest the destructive, undemocratic policies of the G-20 and 
demonstrate that a better world is possible. Diversity of tactics works best when the 
space is available for that diversity to actually occur.

At its heart, this mass march springs from an understanding that our miseries and the 
myriad of injustices we see and experience are all consequences of the way in which 
society is structured. Profit is extracted from others’ labor and to achieve a 
maximization of profit necessitates a division of people along socially constructed lines, 
that decision-making and privilege are hierarchically arranged, that competition and the 
desire for total control necessitate ever expanding apparatuses of oppression and fear.

This is therefore not simply an “appeal” to the political process for universal health 
care, for an end to attacks on workers’ rights to organize, for an end to occupations of 
others’ lands, for clean water, for accessible education for all, for sustainability to 
forestall ecological collapse, or for a break with corporate power. It rejects both a 
singular focus on single issue organizing and the false notion that our world vision is 
about bringing together a bunch of complaints about the way things are. This march is our 
statement that our solutions must be as systemic as the problems we face, that our future 
lies in a “movement of movements” that work synergistically with one another to produce 
victories based on the interconnected nature of solutions. And so we don’t come to ask, 
beg or negotiate, we come to find strength in one another to work towards a society in 
which the injustices and indignities with which we struggle every day can finally be 
addressed.

In solidarity,
Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project

Web: http://www.resistg20.org
Convergence Center: 4374 Murray Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217 (at the corner of Murray and 
Hazelwood in Greenfield).
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