G8 2009 - Italy

from email, 9 October 2008: A critique of the militarisation of social conflict and the securitisation of everyday life. * Assessment of the Strategy Papers of the ‘Future Group’ (on the future of EU Home Affairs policies) and the ‘new strategic directions’ of NATO, put forward in the publication, ‘Towards a Grand Strategy in an Uncertain World’ * Proposal for a campaign against the new EU policies to be ratified under the Swedish Presidency of the EU in 2009 more

from email, updated 19 September 2008: "Looking ahead to the G8 2009 in Italy, this text takes up these points to propose a campaign against the new "European Security Architecture". We outline some developments in police cooperation on a European level and call for a kind of antirepression work that goes beyond a simple critique and a scandalising police violence, and that is coordinated on a European level..." more

Infotour Working Group | Gipfelsoli Infogroup Press Release Saturday 6th October 2007: Infotour in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan and Hong Kong. See below for initial reports from Korea. more

from email, 20 Sept 2007: Summary of anti-G8 infotour meetings held recently in Istanbul, across the UK in June/July 2007, plus initial information on the G8 meeting in 2009, to be held on the island of Sardinia.  more