News from ‘We Won’t Pay for Your Crisis’ Demo
Photo credit: Turbulence
On March 28, 2009, up to 30,000 people took part in the Berlin demonstration, We Won’t Pay for Your Crisis; with a further 25,000 in Frankfurt am Main. Turbulence, who were among the 100+ groups, organisations, networks and publications to call for the demonstrations, joined the Berlin events.
For more information, and both mainstream and alternative coverage of the demonstrations, click here.
The turbulence flyers, on the economic crisis, distributed at the demonstration are available online here, here (PDF) and here (PDF: 1, 2)
‘We Won’t Pay For Your Crisis’ Demo, 28 March, Berlin & Frankfurt
A broad coalition of extra-parliamentary groups and networks, trade unions, political parties, environmental organisations, academics and the editorial boards and collectives of a range of publications are calling (1, 2, 3, 4) for participation in demonstrations in Berlin and Frankfurt on March 28, 2009 – a few days ahead of the G20 Summit in London. Turbulence are supporting the demonstrations! (Read the short, English language, Call for the demonstrations here.)
The events form part of a Global Day of Action, called for both by a meeting of civil society and social movement organisations who issued the Paris Declaration, as well as the Assembly of Social Movements at the 2009 World Social Forum.
The meeting point for the demonstrations in Germany are as follows:
Berlin: 12:00, Rotes Rathaus. Rathausstraße 15, 10178 Mitte.
Frankfurt: 12:00, Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) & Bockenheimer Warte U-Bahn Station.
Transport information, for coaches to both Frankfurt and Berlin, is available here.
Here’s the mobilisation clip for the demo:
Turbulence @ Communism Conference
The latest issues of Turbulence magazine will be available at the conference, ‘On the Idea of Communism‘, being held at The Birckbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London this weekend (13-15 March, 2009).
The Conference speakers are: Judith Balso, Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels, Terry Eagleton, Peter Hallward, Michael Hardt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Toni Negri, Jacques Ranciere, Alessandro Russo, Alberto Toscano, Gianni Vattimo and Slavoj Žižek. The programme is online here.
The Conference will take place in Logan Hall, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0A, UK. (Map). All tickets to the Conference have now been sold.
However, a free video and audio link-up to the Conference will be in Elvin Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, UK.
More information is available here.
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