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Rostock, Germany, Thu, May 24 2007

G8: Defend local social rights globally

Call for participation of urban and local social movements at G8 protests

Since decades the policies of G7/G8 in favour of their own economic growth, multinational companies and global financial markets build a main reason for the world wide plundering of nature and labour, for the destruction of local economies and independent developments, for the undermining of market regulations and social standards, for the privatisation of collective resources and public services.
For these reasons we support the protests against the policies of G8 in Rostock and Heiligendamm.

With a series of events in the frame of the alternative G8 summit we want to raise awareness on the relevance of economic globalisation for local developments and local livelihoods. We want discuss common strategies, how local social movements can internationalise their struggles against evictions, speculation, privatisation, for the right to housing, city, water and land.

Knut Unger, Habitat Netz

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Urban movemenst at G8/07

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