[Marxism] German Activists' Call for Action against G-8

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

German activists have given out a call for action on Palestine and  
against the G8.

Please see below.

Greetings

Maren Karlitzky
(Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign - outreach)
global@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.stopthewall.org/
phone: +972-546470366
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Call for action against G-8

Palestine: No wars – no Walls

In the first week of June the bosses of the 8 economically most  
powerful nations of the world will meet for a nice cup of tea in the  
German resort of Heiligendamm near Rostock. To guarantee the security  
of the cosy meeting, the place will be surrounded by a security fence  
2 ½ meters high, 1 meter deep, 13 kilometres long, and 12.5 million  
Euros worth of barbed wire and cement.

Just like the rich in the metropolises of the world, like the  
exploiting North against the exploited South, like the US-occupant in  
Bagdad, like the Israeli occupation in Palestine – in the era of  
neoliberal capitalism, oppression needs walls and fences, racist laws  
and ethnical cleansing, discourses of exclusion and “clashes of  
civilizations” in order to defend itself.

For the sake of control over the key resource, the oil, the issue of  
strategic control is essential in Palestine as in the whole region. A  
region of puppet regimes – considered as the “moderates” - is  
emerging who are willing to do the dirty business of oppressing their  
peoples. This is what the project of a “Greater Middle East” is all  
about. Like any other colonial project, it considers tribal and  
religious identity as essential, it relies on separation, racism, and  
the alleged incompatibility of cultures. It builds ideological walls  
and walls of concrete, in Palestine a wall that separates farmers  
from their olive groves, students from school and university, workers  
from their jobs – a wall that doesn’t serve anybody’s security, but  
rather a wall designed for land grab and making people homeless.

G-8, walls, wars and exclusions go together. That is why thousands  
from the region, from all over Germany, Europe, Israel, and Palestine  
will come to Rostock to protest against the meeting of those who rule  
the world without being legitimized:

-         on the international demo block “Palestine – no wars, no  
walls”,  June, 2nd , in Rostock

-         on the day of blockades against militarization, wars and  
occupations on June, 5th around    	  Rostock-Laage airport

The leaders of the world will land in Rostock-Laage. This airport is  
partly used by the military, partly for civil purposes and has become  
the most important military air base in Northern Europe. It will be  
further enlarged as central military base. It serves as an airfield  
not just for cheap tourist flights but also for eurofighters. Those  
are of essential significance for the German military as well as for  
the Nato Response Force, which also means, for international military  
interventions. As in the case of this airport, as in the case of the  
summit talks and in general, when strategies of global power are  
being dealt with, civil matters and military matters merge and become  
indiscernible. The political and social spheres are penetrated by and  
subordinated to the demands of a vague and all-encompassing idea of  
„security“ – the security of the few against the many. Wars are no  
longer being fought between armies, but they are fought – without  
being declared – against civil populations and stay as bloody  
occupations – in Palestine for the last 40 years. Civilians,  
sovereign states, territories, international accords and human rights  
are overrun and bombarded, as in Iraq, in Lebanon, in Afghanistan, in  
Palestine.

Zones excluded from any rule of law, torture centres, prisoners’  
camps are everywhere, even in the wealthy regions of the world. To be  
able to enjoy the most basic rights, has become a privilege, that is  
being defended fiercely, just as prosperity, security and the access  
to resources is being defended fiercely against those “outsourced” by  
global neoliberal economy.

The "War against Terror“, explicitly declared as a never ending, pre- 
emptive global war, aims at pushing and securing the interests of  
global players. It is waged in many ways: as annihilation of civil  
rights and extension of the surveillance state, as undermining of the  
right of asylum and the right of residence, as fortification of the  
islands of prosperity, as export of democracy and human rights –  
actually impeding self rule and undermining human rights. If  
juridical, diplomatic, and political manipulations don’t work, or if  
those aimed at dare to resist – it is the sheer violence of war and  
torture that is being used against them. This happens in Palestine  
and in different forms and degrees in many places all over the world.

 The orchestra of global imperial rule needs regular tuning – that’s  
what the G-8 summits are all about. And that’s what our resistance is  
about, as part of the global resistance and protest movements  
-         on 6/2, against Wars and racist segregations-         on  
6/5, against the military component of neolibaral globalization – in  
Palestine and everywhere
Palästina – Solidarität gegen G-8            Palestine – Solidarity  
against G-8                        Palestine – solidarité contre G-8



Contact: nowars-nowalls@xxxxxxxx



Websites: www.g8andwar.de

                www.heiligendamm2007.de

                www.gipfelsoli.org

                www.dissentnetwork.org

                http://g8-2007.de

                http://antig8.tk

                www.g8-germany.info

                www.attac.de/g8



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