(poster culled from strangers in a tangled wilderness, link goes to a pdf.)
Reposted from infoshop news:
A committee of outside agitators, ne’er-do-wells, unpredictables, and ungovernables gets excited about the G-20.
The Grievances
On September 24-25th, leaders from the 20 richest and most powerful economies of the world will assemble in Pittsburgh, PA to discuss how they can further entrench their power in the face of the most devastating global depression seen in the last 70 years. We will meet them there.
For most of you reading this text, the political grounds upon which we would oppose such a gathering are at this point common sense. Were we to make a laundry list of grievances, it would certainly not be a short one: the evictions, the food prices, the energy costs, the increase in racist and anti-immigrant attacks, the repression of social movements, the insane ecological collapse that industrial capitalism has spread out before us like a bright red carpet rolled out over the edge of a cliff.
And then there’s the domestic front. The new boss, same as the old boss, has already reneged on every single one of his meager campaign promises, throwing in a few extra treats for us, like billions of little paper handouts to bankers and this new thing called “clean coal.” Nobody is celebrating his inauguration anymore.
The G20 summit will also be used to renew the failed promises of past free trade agreements (FTAA, NAFTA, WTO). This is especially relevant considering the victory of anti-globalization movement of the early ‘00. By all accounts, the “Washington consensus” was shattered by the blockades and disruptions of thousands in the US and abroad, and the Doha round of the WTO effectively collapsed. The G20 summit in Pittsburgh is an attempt to reorganize free trade and put a new face on these miserable economic policies in the wake of the current world economic crisis. (more…)