Against Social Exclusion and Neoliberalism at Japanese G8 Summit ACTION AGAINST SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND CALL FOR FAIR LABOR JOIN US IN THE MOVEMENT AGAINST G8 The G8 Summit will be held at Toyako in Hokkaido from July 7-9. We believe that this is an arbitrary meeting of the governments which lead neoliberalism. The world's eight most powerful economies have imposed neoliberalism onto other nations, while dominating the global financial market with the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Agreement. The developing nations are forced to accept the free trade in exchange of ODA. Privatizations, labor market flexibility, and deregulations are introduced not only in the developing nations but also in the industrialized counterparts. Inequality and poverty are accelerating. Social welfare is reduced. Socially disadvantaged people are excluded and their fundamental rights are violated. Also in Japan, working poor are also victims of neoliberalism since the early 2000s under the Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government.

[ JUST RELEASED >>> INTERVENTIONS Number One ]]] http://uppingtheanti.org/node/3070 ROUNDTABLE ON G8 RESISTANCE Perspectives for the Next Phase of Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings Moderated by Kriss Sol (Amsterdam); with Hanne Jobst (Germany), Sabu & Go (Japan), Miranda (Italy), and Jaggi Singh (Montreal) The G8 is more than a place where neoliberal trade agreements are authored. It is also a space where the legitimacy of global governance is reproduced. In 2005, 300,000 people took to the streets in Edinburgh to ask the G8 for a solution to poverty. By 2007, antagonism and dissent prevailed once again. We are entering a period that could mark the resurgence of positive dynamics from the earlier phase of global uprisings. But have we learned from the past? Can we build our interventions on new and more stable ground?

Will you join us in the middle of a whirlwind? In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements A one-off online journal of theory, art, activism and organizing out now! Coordinated by: Team Colors Collective Published by: The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press In the Middle of a Whirlwind (Whirlwinds) inquires into current organizing efforts in the United States, and through that process, assembles a strategic analysis of current political composition as a tool for building political power. Whirlwinds’ strategic context is this summer’s RNC and DNC protests; through these documents and the discussions that erupt from them we hope to directly impact the anti-Convention organizing. In a larger sense, and in the long-term, Whirlwinds is intended to provide a set of useful documents for contemporary radical organizing. Each essay and interview addresses the issues of movement, working class power and composition, and/or gives strategic insight into organizing, and the strengths and weaknesses of current movement/s in the U.S.

Legal Team Founded for Japanese Anti-G8 Actions Hello, the legal team WATCH which aims to support civil movements around the G8 summit is now officially founded. Please visit the English blog under: http://watch08summit.blogspot.com/ The blog has started just today. In the coming weeks, the legal team will publish news and information about immigration and other subjects which might be interesting for the international activists. Kind regards, Ko