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Rallye in Pittsburgh against the G20-meeting

Submitted by kay on Tue, 29/09/2009 - 14:29
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This is a video of Democracy Now!, being cutted by the "FernSichten"-editing team from Attac Germany. During the film you can see the Attac-Bloc in the background (e.g. bei 4:40).

Video of yesterday's rallye

Submitted by Agnes Peterseil on Sat, 26/09/2009 - 20:00
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A short Video showing impressions of the g20-rallye yesterday ...

A résumé of the summit in the conjunctive

Submitted by Christian Schoder on Fri, 25/09/2009 - 23:00
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The G20 summit in Pittsburgh has ended. A basic consensus has been found regarding management salaries, strengthening of the IMF and increasing the capital buffers of banks. Will this package of measures be enough to fulfil the promise of the G20 to avoid future crises? To ask that in another way: If the package had been wrapped up five years ago, would it have been able to prevent the real estate crisis of 2007/2008?

The half hearted effort to limit management pay is a symbolic if not indeed a populist act. Would the bankers at lower pay levels really have distributed fewer housing credits?

The strengthening of the IMF seems cynical. This was the institution that had demanded the liberalisation of capital markets. If the budget of the IMF had been tripled five years ago, 5% of the voting right given to China and an explanation given to it that the freedom of capital markets was not quite that easy a matter, would that have prevented the crisis?

We are getting involved!

Submitted by Agnes Peterseil on Fri, 25/09/2009 - 23:00
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A warm early autumn day, the sun is shining, the female bus driver takes everyone who’s is going to the demonstration ride for free and when getting off the bus we already hear choruses shouting slogans – an ideal start for the largest demonstration in Pittsburgh since the Vietnam war, which ends peacefully early in the evening. Around ten-thousand people came to the university in Oakland and joint the trek to Downtown, to the vicinity of the convention centre, where at the same the G20 were meeting. With hundreds of self-made placards and with well rehearsed and very creative choruses they demanded from the heads of states to abandon their neoliberal agenda.

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Climate destruction ahead

Submitted by Agnes Peterseil on Thu, 24/09/2009 - 05:41
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Wednesday morning. Greenpeace – in an exceedingly daring action – hung a huge banner from the West End bridge in Pittsburgh. Four Activists hang from ropes from the very busy bridge, between them the Banner text „Danger! Climate Destruction ahead. Reduce CO2 Emissions now“

An appeal to the G20-Bosses, not to let the theme fall by the wayside. An Appeal, which Barack Obama should in particular take to heart, who at the UN-meeting yesterday in New York was unwilling to give a US grantee for  even the minimal standards  which China endorsed.

(Translation by Homi Kutar)

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Attac United in Pittsburgh

Submitted by Agnes Peterseil on Thu, 24/09/2009 - 05:32
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As agreed two weeks ago by telephone across six time-zones we met on Wednesday morning with all Attac-members in Pittsburgh to exchange information, plan actions and to know each other. We are coming from Norway, Canada, Germany, Italy and Austria, we talk in German, French, but mainly in English with different accents. In the assembly  hall underneath the Monumental Baptist Church – its administrators allowed the Tent City on their land and made thereby possible the only tent-city in Pittsburgh (all others were not allowed) – are meetings of other activists’ groups besides ours. Already the preparations for lunch are starting, we assist cutting a mountain of strawberries into little pieces. Is does not take long for us to start chatting about our experiences and acquaintances until now and about planning the coming days.

Bus in Pittsburgh, welcoming "The World"

Thousands for „Green Jobs“

Submitted by Jutta Sundermann on Thu, 24/09/2009 - 02:37
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The largest trade union in Pittsburgh called – and many hundreds of people came on Wednesday night to the manifestation in the State Point Park.

Here the pictures can tell more than words.

The organisers expect 3,000 people. Before it darkens there are already several hundred. There is live-music on a large stage, food stalls and creative action-groups at the fringes. And over and over again the message for all: with “green jobs” people will be made happy and the climate could be saved.

“Please, take plenty of green money into your hand!” – is the message of these banner-bearers. One stall further one of the co-organisers tells me that he believes in a more ecological capitalism. He informs all passersby about ways towards an own solar plant and distributes car stickers which are in high demand.

Stiglitz supports the protesters

Submitted by Jutta Sundermann on Thu, 24/09/2009 - 02:15
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Mittwoch nachmittag:

Although life in a tent city is usually quite easy going, with the rain showers driving people to seek the shelter of the pavilions, the long shadow of the afternoon event looms: Joseph Stiglitz is expected, at the big discussion in the Monumental Baptist Church next to the tent city (yes, I know, actually it is the other way around). Before that is the press conference. The density of journalist starts increasing. I have a meeting with the ARD television team and a radio journalist.

The large congregation hall which in the last few days we had used as our  general abode, was particularly  tidy, and a podium for the prominent guest and his fellow podium-people was ready. 

In Pittsburgh saving banks is called Mellon-Bail-Out

Submitted by Jutta Sundermann on Wed, 23/09/2009 - 17:39
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On Tuesday a small demonstration for the right of affordable accommodation went from the Hill District downwards. My feet are touching here more tarmac than during the past months. Again down to “Downtown”!

Target of the protest: the immense banking-tower of the Mellon Bank. In 1813 already Thomas Mellon founded this bank, the family earned millions with coal and steel and today you encounter their name anywhere: ice-hockey in the Mellon Arena, study in the Carnegie Mellon University. Within the framework of the finance crisis the bank was bailed-out with 3 billion US-dollars.

The list of accusations against the bank is long. As coal-baron already the Mellons showed hardly any consideration for the rights of their employees. As the Mellon Tower rises above most of the other buildings in the city the march to it is an obvious contribution to the G20-protests.

Let’s go!

Submitted by Agnes Peterseil on Wed, 23/09/2009 - 04:43
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Finally we too arrive in Pittsburgh one day before the start of the official summit. We travelled for nine hours in the extremely cold air-conditioned train from New York across New Jersey and Pennsylvania, through spacious corn fields, cattle pastures and through Amish settlements. On our way from the railway station to our accommodation we passed parts of fences which are to be set-up tomorrow and which will cut-off downtown Pittsburgh.

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