Contact:info@g8protest.org

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About Us We're a volunteer collective of members from Chicago Indymedia, Occupy Chicago, OWS and other progressive collectives supporting information-sharing and organizing efforts around the NATO and G8 meetings scheduled for May 2012 in the United States. Join us!

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Links
Adbusters
cang8
Chicago Spring
Facebook Group
IVAW
Occupy Chicago
OccupyG8NATO.com.
People's Summit

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Read:The Chicago Principals

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This May, the military, financial and political leaders who serve the 1% domestically and abroad will meet in Chicago to scheme on behalf of the elites they serve. The rest of us -- the 99% forced to bankroll these elites’ agendas – have NOT been invited.

At the behest of the White House, Chicago agreed to host two international summits from May 19-21 at McCormick Place: NATO, the 28-nation, U.S.-commanded and largely U.S.-financed North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and the G8, a forum for the governments of eight of the world's largest economies -- France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Russia.

These same G8 ‘leaders’ are imposing harsh austerity measures on working people across the planet, from Spain and Greece to Egypt and the United States. Their agenda? To expand the neoliberal assault on economic and social safety nets, public health care and public education, the right to collectively bargain – anything that might impede big corporations’ ability to maximize profits at the expense of the rest of us.

Those corporate interests have a military wing, too: NATO, which is bankrolled largely by G8 dollars, particularly U.S. taxpayers. NATO’s military muscle imposes the G8 agenda – from Iraq and Afghanistan to North Africa and Iran. The beneficiaries? Big corporations that can access the oil and mineral wealth of nations like Iraq and Libya. The losers are inevitably ordinary people in these countries, who are bombed, starved, maimed and murdered as part of NATO military campaigns.

This May, thousands of people will gather in Chicago -- and wherever the NATO/G8 elites meet -- to oppose the tyranny of the banks and the corporate elites – to oppose the corporate war on our wages, our homes, our health care, our education and our right to speak out and protest. In meetings, marches, teach-ins, pickets, protests – the host of ways people organize – we’re gathering this spring to oppose the 1% agenda at home and abroad, and to affirm that another world is possible.

We are uninvited, but we will not be dispossessed. Join us.

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