Three events to plan resistance

Activists fighting the capitalist economic crisis have three important events this summer in which to participate.

A People’s Economic Summit on May 31 in New York City will take place in conjunction with the United Nations Summit on the World Economic Crisis. Organizers will set up tents in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, outside of the U.N., where they will share information and insight on how the economic crisis affects poor and working people in the U.S. and worldwide. They will formulate a vision of a future free of social and economic inequality and injustice.

A People’s Summit and tent city will occur June 14-17 at Grand Circus Park in Detroit as the National Business Summit meets in that devastated city, which organizers call the “ground zero” of the economic crisis. The People’s Summit will counter this meeting of corporate giants with four days of active resistance and fightback. Demonstrations, rallies, stopping evictions, cultural events and speak-outs are being planned. A “people’s stimulus plan” and “people’s economic bill of rights” will be circulated and voted on at the tent city.

On Sept. 19 and 20, protests against the G20 Summit in New York City will offer activists the challenge of uniting and working together to organize the widest protests possible against the governments and bankers of the big capitalist countries. The last G20 Summit, held in London in April, was met with massive protests there and throughout Europe. The New York G20 meeting will be about “fixing” the system that puts profits before people. It must be met with strong resistance!

For information on these protests, see BailOutPeople.org or call 212-633-6646; contact the Detroit People’s Summit at 313-887-4344.