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The G8 and G20 are coming to Canada this June to make decisions affecting the future of life on our planet. These twenty powerful leaders need to hear what needs to be done to create a world that is fair and sustainable for all of us.

At the Table is a Canadian and global civil society campaign, mobilizing citizens to “take their place” at these critical global summits. It is a call to leaders to “take their place” in forging bold decisions on the issues people care about — poverty, climate change, and economic justice.

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World Religions Summit 2010 Concludes.
Posted by Guest on June 30, 2010

After three intensely packed days, 80 senior leaders of eight world religions and faith based organizationsfrom more than 20 countries, together with 13 youth delegates, spoke with one united voice ► More

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World Religions Summit 2010 Statement

Broken Windows vs Broken Promises and Irresponsible International Finance
Posted by Kelly on June 29, 2010

 

By Roger Picton 29 June 2010

As Canada’s national media obsesses over a few burnt cars, the shock doctrine has played out in full force in the Canadian context. During this week’s G20 meetings, the use of massive police and security operations masked the (re)imposition of unpopular neoliberal policies. 

As Naomi Klein has detailed, the shock doctrine works like this: at a point of crisis, force people into a state of shock, then impose severe and unpopular measures, often with the use of force. In this case, a state-sanctioned policing strategy allows for property damage to be used as a pretext for massive police action. As shock reins and media suffer whiplash (a burnt police, and also broken windows, oh my, how can that be, this is Toronto!), the G20 leaders, hidden behind fences, and far from public view, agree to the return of the politics of austerity. ► More

Naomi Klein is so right. At the G20 the banks win big. The people pay the bill.
June 28, 2010

by Naomi Klein Globe and Mail

My city feels like a crime scene and the criminals are all melting into the night, fleeing the scene. No, I’m not talking about the kids in black who smashed windows and burned cop cars on Saturday.

I’m talking about the heads of state who, on Sunday night, smashed social safety nets and burned good jobs in the middle of a recession. Faced with the effects of a crisis created by the world’s wealthiest and most privileged strata, they decided to stick the poorest and most vulnerable people in their countries with the bill. ► More

What the media ignored: 25,000 peacefully demonstrate against G20 policies in Toronto
June 28, 2010

MAKE POVERTY HISTORY supporters and hundreds of our coalition partners were among the throngs calling out to the G8 and G20 to Invest In the Future Now and create a world that's fair for all of us.

G20 Lets Banks Off The Hook, Austerity Measures mean Hard Times Ahead for the World's Poor
June 27, 2010

The G20’s emphasis on dealing with budget deficits through austerity measures rather than bringing in a financial transaction tax means the global financial sector will not have to contribute to a global recovery effort.

By urging cutbacks to government services, the G20’s actions could further harm the poor in their own countries and the poorest and most vulnerable people in the developing world, who have already suffered most from a financial and economic crisis that they did nothing to cause. ► More

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