*Private Equity Sucks!*

*Take action against KKR - Thursday July 17*
*1pm, Trafalgar Square, under the lions*

http://www.privateequitysucks.com

*Join the Global Day of Action against one of the oldest and largest private equity firms in the world: KKR (Kohlberg, Kravitz and Roberts)*

Private equity companies have gained massive influence, power and obscene wealth because they’ve stayed invisible to public attention and scrutiny. It is time for that to change!

On Thursday 17 July 2008, thousands of trade unions, community organisations, environmentalists, workers and activists will be taking part in a global day of action against KKR - actions are planned in 100 cities in 25 countries. These actions will send a loud and clear message to private equity firms like KKR that we are sick and tired of a few people getting even richer and ruining our lives and the planet in the process.

In London on July 17, the Private Equity Creative Action Network (PECAN) will be bringing a creative and strong message to the executives of KKR, including the delivery a giant invoice that makes it clear that KKR has a long overdue debt to our community and world. To help make this action a success and to kick off a summer of actions against private equity, we are inviting people to participate and to get involved on the day (in particular we are looking for: video artists, anti-capitalist cheerleaders, independent media makers, musicians, DJ's, clowns and of course - activists).

Homeless People Shut Out of Sapporo Bus Terminal in Run-up to G8 Summit

Article found at Mainichi Daily News:

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080613p2a00m0na008000c.html

Against Social Exclusion and Neoliberalism at Japanese G8 Summit

ACTION AGAINST SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND CALL FOR FAIR LABOR
JOIN US IN THE MOVEMENT AGAINST G8

The G8 Summit will be held at Toyako in Hokkaido from July 7-9. We
believe that this is an arbitrary meeting of the governments which lead
neoliberalism. The world's eight most powerful economies have imposed
neoliberalism onto other nations, while dominating the global financial
market with the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Agreement.
The developing nations are forced to accept the free trade in exchange
of ODA. Privatizations, labor market flexibility, and deregulations are
introduced not only in the developing nations but also in the
industrialized counterparts. Inequality and poverty are accelerating.
Social welfare is reduced. Socially disadvantaged people are excluded
and their fundamental rights are violated. Also in Japan, working poor
are also victims of neoliberalism since the early 2000s under the Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government.

Japanese Police Raid Anti-G8 Kyoto Union Office

http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Hokkaido_2008/5181.html

10th of June before 9 in the morning, 19 police men from Kyoto Prefecture Police Security 3rd department (so called public safety dep.) raided and searched the union office which is used by Rakunan Union, Rakunan Workers Network, Asia Joint Action (Asia Kyodokodo) , (and ) also an house of ‘A’ who is a member of Rakunan Union for the suspect of “fraud related incident” (with an arrest warrant), which is an apparent excuse to crush the movement against the summit.

Anti-G8 Anarchist in Kansai Area (West Japan) Arrested

Tabi Rounin, better known as 'Rebel_Jill' has been detained by police on minor charges in the run-up to the G8 in Japan, as the police attempt to investigate his international connections and disrupt his revolutionary activities. This is a known tactic of the Japanese political police, see here for more information about this tactic and an interview with Tabi:

Interview with Comrade 'M'
http://www.325collective.com/social-control_m.html

Interview with Rebel-Jill
http://www.325collective.com/interviews_rebel-jill.html

[ JUST RELEASED >>> INTERVENTIONS Number One ]]]

http://uppingtheanti.org/node/3070

ROUNDTABLE ON G8 RESISTANCE
Perspectives for the Next Phase of
Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings

Moderated by Kriss Sol (Amsterdam);
with Hanne Jobst (Germany), Sabu & Go
(Japan), Miranda (Italy), and Jaggi
Singh (Montreal)

The G8 is more than a place where neoliberal
trade agreements are authored. It is also a
space where the legitimacy of global governance
is reproduced. In 2005, 300,000 people took to
the streets in Edinburgh to ask the G8 for a
solution to poverty. By 2007, antagonism and
dissent prevailed once again. We are entering
a period that could mark the resurgence of positive
dynamics from the earlier phase of global
uprisings. But have we learned from the past?
Can we build our interventions on new and more
stable ground?

Forensic Evaluation Completed of Mexican Investigation of Brad Will Case

PHR Recommends a Thorough Investigation into US Journalist Brad Will's Case and a Larger Inquiry into Pattern of Violence in Oaxaca

Media Contacts:
Nathaniel Raymond
nraymond@phrusa.org
Tel: (617) 301-4232
Cell: (617) 413-6407

The International Forensic Program (IFP) of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) recommends a thorough and wider inquiry following its comprehensive forensic review of the ongoing investigation by Mexico's Attorney General (Procuraduria General de la Republica-PGR) into the October, 2006 death of 36-year-old American Brad Will. Will, a video-journalist for Indymedia.org, died of gunshot wounds while covering violent protests in the state of Oaxaca. At issue in this case is whether Will was killed by bullets fired at close range from within the crowd of protestors, or from a greater distance by paramilitary forces. At least 17 other reported deaths related to protests in Oaxaca since 1996 remain unresolved.

Will you join us in the middle of a whirlwind?

In the Middle of a Whirlwind:
2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements
A one-off online journal of theory, art, activism and organizing out now!

Coordinated by: Team Colors Collective

Published by: The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press

In the Middle of a Whirlwind (Whirlwinds) inquires into current organizing efforts in the United States, and through that process, assembles a strategic analysis of current political composition as a tool for building political power.

Whirlwinds’ strategic context is this summer’s RNC and DNC protests; through these documents and the discussions that erupt from them we hope to directly impact the anti-Convention organizing. In a larger sense, and in the long-term, Whirlwinds is intended to provide a set of useful documents for contemporary radical organizing. Each essay and interview addresses the issues of movement, working class power and composition, and/or gives strategic insight into organizing, and the strengths and weaknesses of current movement/s in the U.S.

Fight against the Terror in Nandigram, Build your Own Independent and United Struggle

A fugitive criminal is ruling roost in Nandigram, directing a huge armed force of
party cadres. A police officer waves and gives a beaming smile to the criminal while
passing by in his jeep — a picture familiar in today’s ‘peaceful’ Nandigram. A group
of socially established intellectuals were prohibited from proceeding towards
Nandigram on the basis of Government’s directive a day before the Panchayat polls.

Legal Team Founded for Japanese Anti-G8 Actions

Hello,

the legal team WATCH which aims to support civil movements around the G8
summit is now officially founded.

Please visit the English blog under:
http://watch08summit.blogspot.com/

The blog has started just today.

In the coming weeks, the legal team will publish news and information
about immigration and other subjects which might be interesting for the
international activists.

Kind regards,
Ko