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For a V.A.A.A.G anti G8 Alternative, Anticapitalistic and Anti-Wars Village

V.A.A.A.G | 18.04.2003 16:30

Looking for direct democracy, self-organized alternative during the Evian G8, breaking up with institutionnal ways of social changes

For a V.A.A.A.G anti G8 Alternative, Anticapitalistic and Anti-Wars Village
During the G8 summit, which will be held at Evian end May begin of June, we want to realize an anticapitalistic, alternative, anti-wars and antimilitarist village.

In this village we want to ally meetings, political debates and cultural experiences (theater, music, videos…) : "Yes to the fight but yes to the party also". We want this village to be the expression of those without voice, in rupture with the institutional movements in order to invent other possible ways by practicing a free and self-administered World. The V.A.A.A.G village will reflect a multiplicity of initiatives demonstrating by their action what animates those for whom "Resisting is creating".

On the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of June it will be held at Evian the summit of the eight powers that govern the world (G8). After the strengthening of the demonstrations against the capitalistic globalization and after the murder of Carlo Giulani at Genoa in July 2001, the eight biggest predators have decided to organize their festivities in isolated and protected by police brigades and any kind of militaries, corners of the world.
This year it is France that is hosting the G8 in the city of Evian situated by the Lac Leman lace hidden behind the mountains of Haute Savoie. The dominating classes, through the G8 and other various international institutions such as the IMF and the World Banc, take the right to govern the world in the name of the holly sacred Capital. From the North to the South, from the East to the West, the discourse is the same : extension of the economy market in every aspect of our lives.

The consequences are always the same for us : misery, repression and war.

Since several years now the mobilizations against the lords of this world have amplified. For us, fighting the G8, is not about begging a "human" management of capitalism or its regulation / taxation by the different States but about the promoting of another kind of society where the human relations will not be based on a logic of profit and domination.

All over the world the human and ecological damages keep increasing. War is becoming the unique solution to the economical and social problems that the system cannot respond to anymore. External war, also known as war against terrorism and internal war against the poor. In the South, as well as in the North, this poverty is the result of the flexibility of all the living and working conditions, of the privatization of all the social services (healthcare, education, water, transport), of the logics of "all profit" and easy money, of the "exodus" - from the countries of the South to the North once the "job" is done- of the logics of commercialization (GMO among others) and of the control of the rural populations by the agro-alimentary trusts... In order to maintain the civil "peace", named by euphemism national coherence, the States and the empires develop military and security arsenals in a way never seen before. In the "new language" we don't say any more that we minimize the freedoms and the human rights but : We secure. We don't say anymore : We don't let the poor to use public transportation, but : We fight for better conditions for the clients ! We don't say "out the poor foreigners", but we humanly handle the arrivals in relation with the needs of working hands, etc. The maintained fear is provoking the irresponsibility of individuals and the breaking of solidarity as well it makes that everyone is searching the answer to the questions posed by the capitalistic globalization within a strong power.

But the resistances are multiplying and organizing. Since it is by the fight, the direct action and new solidarities that the exploited and the dominated will inverse the present power relations. It is by the globalization of the fights that the multinationals and the States will not be able any more to make the Other, the Foreigner the scapegoat for the situations that they create by their economic and social politics. Since the dislocation, the flags of convenience, the exploitation of the tropical forests, the exportation of polluting factories to the countries of the South, the human exploitation etc are not the act of luck but of the logic of profit the only existing reason of capitalism and liberalism, as we may see with the commercialization of life, education and culture.

No justice, no peace ! Many economic and politic directors are dreaming that the class war is just a memory, that those that obey the law of the dominant classes must continue to bend their backs and accept as sufficient the Charity business in order not to die… The control by the exploited of their own luck, their capacity to define other ways of those of an infinite, destroying nature development, of an hierarchical and based on multiple dominations work - between the peoples, between men and women, on nature, on children etc., the updating of the self-direction and the appropriation of the means of production for the satisfaction of the greater number of people and not of a minority, are going to be the only ways to face the bellicose powers, the fanaticisms, the national-populists or liberal-security that are developing in the world.

Since many years, resistance is not only a contestation of the established order- or disorder- but also the search of alternatives of different proposed models, even by some mouvements of anti-globalization. There is a will to create other possible spaces against all forms of domination (patriarchic, economic, social, cultural, national, military, authoritative…), and it is for that it seems interesting to us to propose the creating of a village that would be at the same time :

1) A space of autonomy where thinking and acting will permit the politic expression and, mostly, the affirmation of our alternative propositions. The action is going to be expressed by acts of disobedience and/or resistance and concrete alternatives, by anti-authoritative practices, by direct democracy and self-direction. We want this village, beyond the necessary visibility, to be a place of social and political experimentation in rupture with capitalism, the political forms of classical and/or institutional representation.

2) A space of autonomy that is going to become a true place where the resistances to capitalistic globalization will come together, that will give the possibility to different axes or strategies of fight to be represented and expressed (opportunity to tighten the relations between different individuals, groups, networks and associations).