Why resist the G8 and G20 Summits?
Different organizations and individuals have different reasons for protesting the G8 & G20 meetings. The TCMN maintains that given the colonial, imperial nature of international politics and the disastrous legacy of “free”-markets, the G8 and G20 “leaders” have no legitimacy to manage the global economy and financial system, nor do they represent the best interests of most people or the environment. Yet the decisions the G8 and G20 governments make every day impact people, communities and the planet. The meetings also include participation by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank and other neoliberal institutions that have forced countries of the Global South into debt crises and overwhelming poverty. The G8 and G20 meetings attempt to fix capitalsim by cutting social spending and by pushing privatization in the global financial system, furthering the systems of oppression that have led to poverty, environmental destruction and other social injustices. Communities from a
