G20 Organizing in CT

Meeting to Organize Transportation to Protest The G20
Sunday, August 30th at 2pm
Location: TBA in Middletown, CT
Discussion List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctg20workgroup/

Join us as we come together and organize for the G20 protests in Pittsburgh this Sept 25th.

Why We Protest: Working people and the poor continually carry the burden of suffering during economic crises; struggling to keep their homes, their jobs and maybe health care. Meanwhile, the wealthy elites continue to debate policies that do little to alleviate this pain, and much to garner further profits. This economic struggle is historic; a continuation of the struggles that our parents and their parents endured during the crisis in the 1970s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. While we are being stripped of our job security, access to quality education, access to healthcare, and forced from our homes; the ruling class continues to enrich itself through economic bailouts and endless wars. It’s time to draw a line in the sand!

People from around the world; including Latin America, Guadeloupe, Greece, France, Iraq, Iran, throughout Africa, and countless other countries have taken up the fight for a more just economy. Here in the US we have been resisting the unjust war against the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan and Iran.

This September, the G20 comes to Pittsburgh for a meeting of war-makers and profiteers—
offering us a great opportunity to stand up for global justice! The G20 is an undemocratic organization of wealthy capitalists who meet behind closed doors to make extremely important decisions that impact us all. The criteria of their decisions is quite simply to maximize profits, which has nothing to do with making a better world for all. In fact, they rarely even consider the social and environmental impacts of their decisions on the poor people in their own countries let alone anyone in the 175 other non G20 countries. We must join our sisters and brothers in solidarity against this economic oppression and protest these undemocratic processes. These meetings continue to enact the very programs that have made the richest 500 men wealthier than the remaining 5 billion+ men and women combined . We cannot allow these warmongers and spoilers to further exploit our resources unopposed. We must meet them in the streets to demand an economy that provides for the people, not the war machines. We call for students, workers, and lovers of democracy to:

UNITE and RESIST THE G20! RESIST IMPERIALISM!
DEMAND ECONOMIC JUSTICE FOR ALL!

Email: ctstraightedge@yahoo.com for more details