[WSF-Discuss] A request for information about the international mobilizations around March 28th - April 5th

[Corinna Genschel]

Dear friends, 
 
I hope I am not misusing this mailing list or your addresess, but I do have a request for support in gathering information about the international activities around the day or week of action against the meeting of the G20 governments on April 2nd in London which was called for by - among others - the assembly of social movements in Belém under the motto "We Won't Pay for the crisis. The rich have to pay for it" (http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/advocacy/conf/2009/0205declaration09.htm). 
Simultaneoulsy the international mobilization against the NATO summit / 60th birthday in Strasbourg/Kehl from April 1st until April 5th under the motto "No to War! No to NATO" is taking shape (www.no-to-nato.org; www.otan-non.org). In Germany, we are tryxing to link the two mobilizations by proposing a week of action against the cirsi and war. 
 
Anyhow, in Germany as in other countries and cities there will be two big crisis-demonstrations on March 28, one in Berlin and one in Frankfurt, under the main slogan "We Won't Pay for Your Crisis" organized by an alliance of almost 100 organizations now. (For those who read German: you can find all relevant information on the mobilzation's website: www.kapitalismuskrise.org <http://www.kapitalismuskrise.org>  oder www.28maerz.de <http://www.28maerz.de> ). In Germany we - an alliance of almost 100 organizations too - are calling under the international motto of "We won't pay for your crisis" for two big marches in Frankfurt and Berlin. There are two regional organizational committees with linked websites (www.kapitalismuskrise.org <http://www.kapitalismuskrise.org> ; www.28maerz.de <http://www.28maerz.de> ). We are expecting to both marches some 10.000s of people. We  understand these marches as part of the international call (Paris declaracion as well as the call made by the assembly of social movements in Belém), but understand the marches also as just the beginning of further mobilzations, actions and actvities against the politics of the global crisis of capitalism. At the same time,  we are calling for a week of action against the "crisis and war"  and in that way trying to connect the struggles against militarization and struggles against the crisis .
 
For  all our marches  and mobilzations in that time period it would be great to know from all over Europe and the world whether marches, activities, protest are happening so that we can  make connections, so we can mention each other's actvitites on our respective marches, give each other strength and truly make our mobilzations international.
 
For the marches in Germany I offered to gather the information,  and that's why I am writing to you with all you knowelegde and information about social movemetn activities around the world. So please write back to me if you know of marches in your city/country or if you have heart of others  we should know of.  If there is more detailed information aboput whom to contact to get further information, please let me know. We  will these information on our websites so others  also know about it. Please forward this request/question also to others who might know about more activities, we have read that a lot of things will happen - for example in the US. - but don't know the details yet. 
 
Please let us all know that the international call is turned into international activities
 
All the best from Berlin
Corinna Genschel
(for the organizing committee  of the marches in Berlin and Frankfurt)
 


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Corinna Genschel
Mitarbeiterin Kontaktstelle soziale Bewegungen
Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag
Platz der Republik 1
11011 Berlin
Telefon +4930/227-52097
Telefax +4930/227-56183
corinna.genschel at linksfraktion.de
http://www.linksfraktion.de
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