Protest for a better world at the G20 summit
Ian | 18.03.2009 00:01 | G20 London Summit | Climate Chaos | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | Oxford
40 NGO's and trade unions are calling for a mass protest at the G20 summit at the end of March under the banner of "Jobs, Justice and Climate."
Over 4,000 jobs have been lost in Oxfordshire in recent months showing that nowhere is safe from the world economic crisis. No end is in sight and the current economic policies are not bringing the changes that we need.
At a time when there will be more demand on public services they are being exposed to the same market forces that have caused the destruction in the financial system through privatisation.
Even before the banking collapse, the world suffered poverty, inequality and the threat of climate chaos. The world has followed a financial model that has created an economy fuelled by ever-increasing debt, both financial and environmental.
We believe our future depends on creating an economy based on fair distribution of wealth, decent jobs for all and a low carbon future. We believe another world is possible and want to see decent jobs and public services for all, an end poverty and inequality, and a green economy. We are demanding the government:
* Create a ‘Green New Deal’ to create jobs in the environmental sector
* Invest in essential services including social housing
* Provide emergency funding to countries that need it to protect jobs and provide social protection
* Tackle tax havens - especially those linked to the UK
* Insist on democratic reform of the World Bank and IMF
* Make all financial institutions and multinational corporations transparent and accountable
* Ensure that poorer states are allowed to take responsibility for managing their own economies rather than having liberalisation measures forced upon them
* Introduce robust regulatory requirements and financial incentives at national level and push for them at international level to stop climate chaos
* Commit to substantial new resource transfer from North to South to support low carbon development
People from all over the country will be joining the Put People First March on March 28 to call on the worlds leaders to make policies that incorporate these aims. We urge the people of Oxfordshire to join them to call for a economic policies that put people first.
People can book seats on the Oxford coach at
http://web.bethere.co.uk/PutpeopleFirst/, or by calling 07967392229 or email 
PutPeopleFirst@bethere.co.uk
Coach tickets are £1 to Oxfordshire UNISON Health and County branch members. Tickets for non-members are £10 waged/£8unwaged.
Supporter organisations:
Local
Oxfordshire UNISON Health Branch
Oxford & District Trades Unions Council
New Internationalist
Oxfordshire County UNISON
Oxfam
National
ActionAid
AJCC
ACTSA
Advocacy International
Akina Mama Wa Africa
AMREF UK
Article 12 in Scotland
ASLEF
ATL
Avaaz
BECTU
BOND
BOVA
Bretton Woods Project
CAFOD
Campaign Against Climate Change
CDD
CSP
Change is Coming
Christian Aid
CND
Compass
Concern Worldwide (UK)
Co-operative News
Connect
CWU
Dalit Solidarity Network UK
Defend Council Housing
DoSomethingAboutIt
Down2Earth Down2Us
EAP
Engineers Against Poverty
EQUITY
European Movement
Everychild
Fairtrade Foundation
Fatima Women's Network
FBU
Find Your Feet
Friends of the Earth
GardenAfrica
GCAP
GMB
Green New Deal Group
Greenpeace
HelpAge International
International Service
Jubilee Debt Campaign
Justice for Colombia
Lattitude
Merlin
Micah Challenge UK
MRDF
Musicians Union
Muslim Council of Britain
NASUWT
NEF
New Internationalist
NSC
NUJ
NUS
NUT
One World Action
Oxfam
Pants to Poverty
PCS
People and Planet
Performers Without Borders
Plan UK
Progressio
Prospect
Red Pepper
RMT
Salvation Army
Save the Children
SCIAF
Shelter
Skillshare
SoR
Stamp Out Poverty
STOP AIDS Campaign
Stop Climate Chaos
Sudanese Women for Peace
Synergy Centre
Tax Justice Network
Teach a Man to Fish
Tearfund
Thirty-eight degrees
TFSR
Tourism Concern
Trade Justice Movement
TUC
Trading Visions
Traidcraft
Transnational Institute
TSSA
UCATT
UCU
UK Aid Network
UNISON
UNITE
USDAW
VSO
War on Want
Womankind Worldwide
WILPF
World Development Movement
World Vision
WWF
At a time when there will be more demand on public services they are being exposed to the same market forces that have caused the destruction in the financial system through privatisation.
Even before the banking collapse, the world suffered poverty, inequality and the threat of climate chaos. The world has followed a financial model that has created an economy fuelled by ever-increasing debt, both financial and environmental.
We believe our future depends on creating an economy based on fair distribution of wealth, decent jobs for all and a low carbon future. We believe another world is possible and want to see decent jobs and public services for all, an end poverty and inequality, and a green economy. We are demanding the government:
* Create a ‘Green New Deal’ to create jobs in the environmental sector
* Invest in essential services including social housing
* Provide emergency funding to countries that need it to protect jobs and provide social protection
* Tackle tax havens - especially those linked to the UK
* Insist on democratic reform of the World Bank and IMF
* Make all financial institutions and multinational corporations transparent and accountable
* Ensure that poorer states are allowed to take responsibility for managing their own economies rather than having liberalisation measures forced upon them
* Introduce robust regulatory requirements and financial incentives at national level and push for them at international level to stop climate chaos
* Commit to substantial new resource transfer from North to South to support low carbon development
People from all over the country will be joining the Put People First March on March 28 to call on the worlds leaders to make policies that incorporate these aims. We urge the people of Oxfordshire to join them to call for a economic policies that put people first.
People can book seats on the Oxford coach at
http://web.bethere.co.uk/PutpeopleFirst/, or by calling 07967392229 or email PutPeopleFirst@bethere.co.uk Coach tickets are £1 to Oxfordshire UNISON Health and County branch members. Tickets for non-members are £10 waged/£8unwaged.
Supporter organisations:
Local
Oxfordshire UNISON Health Branch
Oxford & District Trades Unions Council
New Internationalist
Oxfordshire County UNISON
Oxfam
National
ActionAid
AJCC
ACTSA
Advocacy International
Akina Mama Wa Africa
AMREF UK
Article 12 in Scotland
ASLEF
ATL
Avaaz
BECTU
BOND
BOVA
Bretton Woods Project
CAFOD
Campaign Against Climate Change
CDD
CSP
Change is Coming
Christian Aid
CND
Compass
Concern Worldwide (UK)
Co-operative News
Connect
CWU
Dalit Solidarity Network UK
Defend Council Housing
DoSomethingAboutIt
Down2Earth Down2Us
EAP
Engineers Against Poverty
EQUITY
European Movement
Everychild
Fairtrade Foundation
Fatima Women's Network
FBU
Find Your Feet
Friends of the Earth
GardenAfrica
GCAP
GMB
Green New Deal Group
Greenpeace
HelpAge International
International Service
Jubilee Debt Campaign
Justice for Colombia
Lattitude
Merlin
Micah Challenge UK
MRDF
Musicians Union
Muslim Council of Britain
NASUWT
NEF
New Internationalist
NSC
NUJ
NUS
NUT
One World Action
Oxfam
Pants to Poverty
PCS
People and Planet
Performers Without Borders
Plan UK
Progressio
Prospect
Red Pepper
RMT
Salvation Army
Save the Children
SCIAF
Shelter
Skillshare
SoR
Stamp Out Poverty
STOP AIDS Campaign
Stop Climate Chaos
Sudanese Women for Peace
Synergy Centre
Tax Justice Network
Teach a Man to Fish
Tearfund
Thirty-eight degrees
TFSR
Tourism Concern
Trade Justice Movement
TUC
Trading Visions
Traidcraft
Transnational Institute
TSSA
UCATT
UCU
UK Aid Network
UNISON
UNITE
USDAW
VSO
War on Want
Womankind Worldwide
WILPF
World Development Movement
World Vision
WWF
Ian
e-mail:
PutPeopleFirst@bethere.co.uk
Homepage:
http://web.bethere.co.uk/PutpeopleFirst/
Additions
Militant Workers Bloc
18.03.2009 06:52
For those of you coming down on March 28th and want to join people with a stronger message, come down to the Militant Workers Bloc - marching on the "Put People First" demonstration.
MARCH 28/09 // MILITANT WORKERS BLOC
'Put People First' Anti-G20 demonstration, 11am Central London
As the financial crisis has spurred a global economic recession the reality of the situation is being faced by us all – price hikes and wage cuts, job losses, spiralling debt and repossessions. The institutions of government and global finance are making us pay for their mistakes, giving themselves hefty bonuses for the privilege. As big banks get billions of our money to bail them out, the Post Office is threatened with privatisation and mass redundancies to claw back the pension hole! Government and bosses, while protecting their own interests, are steadily losing their grip as the anger of the working class becomes more and more apparent after a decade of enforced 'social peace'.
Putting working class anger first
The recent wildcat strikes at the Lindsay Oil Refinery saw workers take action for themselves, without union backing. Thousands of workers across the country walked out in sympathy strikes – a practice still outlawed under the Thatcherite anti-trade union laws. No repercussions were suffered by the workers - a lesson to us all. And although we oppose such slogans as “British Jobs for British Workers”, we do not dismiss the experiences, anger and positive action of those workers to develop a pro-working class position, based not on capitalism's demands for inter-worker competition, but on international class solidarity.
If we want social change we must fight without prejudice for it.
Solidarity is not a word but a weapon
Our purpose is to put direct action at the core of any fightback - against the repossessions and redundancies that we will face over the coming months and years, to restate our commitment for an international unity amongst all working class people regardless of nationality, race, sexuality or religion. We stand shoulder to shoulder with all those who take direct action against their current situation (against the state and its institutions, against the bosses and the capitalism they cling to), and confront those who seek to hinder or recuperate that action - fascist parties like the BNP, government forces, the trade union elite and the corporate media. The memory of the miners strike, Wapping, Poll tax lingers long and hard.
2009 is our summer of rage - we are only as strong as the power we give ourselves.
Join the direct action bloc on the Put People First mass demonstration on Saturday March 28th. Meet in Victoria Embankment Gardens, 11am. Look for the red and black flags.
MARCH 28/09 // MILITANT WORKERS BLOC
'Put People First' Anti-G20 demonstration, 11am Central London
As the financial crisis has spurred a global economic recession the reality of the situation is being faced by us all – price hikes and wage cuts, job losses, spiralling debt and repossessions. The institutions of government and global finance are making us pay for their mistakes, giving themselves hefty bonuses for the privilege. As big banks get billions of our money to bail them out, the Post Office is threatened with privatisation and mass redundancies to claw back the pension hole! Government and bosses, while protecting their own interests, are steadily losing their grip as the anger of the working class becomes more and more apparent after a decade of enforced 'social peace'.
Putting working class anger first
The recent wildcat strikes at the Lindsay Oil Refinery saw workers take action for themselves, without union backing. Thousands of workers across the country walked out in sympathy strikes – a practice still outlawed under the Thatcherite anti-trade union laws. No repercussions were suffered by the workers - a lesson to us all. And although we oppose such slogans as “British Jobs for British Workers”, we do not dismiss the experiences, anger and positive action of those workers to develop a pro-working class position, based not on capitalism's demands for inter-worker competition, but on international class solidarity.
If we want social change we must fight without prejudice for it.
Solidarity is not a word but a weapon
Our purpose is to put direct action at the core of any fightback - against the repossessions and redundancies that we will face over the coming months and years, to restate our commitment for an international unity amongst all working class people regardless of nationality, race, sexuality or religion. We stand shoulder to shoulder with all those who take direct action against their current situation (against the state and its institutions, against the bosses and the capitalism they cling to), and confront those who seek to hinder or recuperate that action - fascist parties like the BNP, government forces, the trade union elite and the corporate media. The memory of the miners strike, Wapping, Poll tax lingers long and hard.
2009 is our summer of rage - we are only as strong as the power we give ourselves.
Join the direct action bloc on the Put People First mass demonstration on Saturday March 28th. Meet in Victoria Embankment Gardens, 11am. Look for the red and black flags.
London Anarchists