The People's Economic Summit WILL go ahead on schedule Sunday, May 31 - Under Tents in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
The G20 countries' forced postponement of the UN Conference
on the Economic Crisis
MEANS THAT THE PEOPLES STRUGGLE AGAINST THE BANKERS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN
EVER!
Although pressure and hostility on the part of some G20 governments has
resulted in the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and
its Impact on Development being postponed from June 1 to 3 until June 24 to 26,
the People's Economic Summit this Sunday, May 31 will go on as scheduled.
The summit will take place from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. in a summit tent city
across the street from the UN in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 47 St. and 1st
Ave. The Bail Out the People Movement encourages all who have made plans
to attend the People's Economic Summit on May 31 not to change those plans.
The postponement of the UN meeting makes it all the more necessary that we meet
on Sunday.
Because of recent developments, the May 31 Summit will not only be a critical
opportunity to discuss the causes of the world economic crisis, hear the voices
of those who are suffering the most because of this crisis and plan mass
action, it will also be a protest against the G20 governments, especially the
U.S. and European imperialist powers that have conspired for six months to
either derail, discredit, or weaken the UN economic summit.
The governments and banking establishments of the U.S. and Europe, whose greed
has pushed the world into the gravest economic crisis since the depression of
the 1930s never wanted the UN economic conference because they don't want
to listen to the poor of the world and they don't want their imperial
hegemony over the world economy challenged even in the slightest way.
The rich want to use the UN, especially the Security Council, to legitimize
U.S. occupation and war, or to condemn, isolate and starve countries like North
Korea and Iran. The rich don't want the poor using the UN as a vehicle to
demand or implement any measures that might make the governance over the
world's economy, wealth and resources a little more democratic, or
equitable, or less driven by greed and profits. The only UN meeting that Wall
Street is interested in is one that rubber stamps the continued globalization
of poverty for the maximization of their profits.
If you haven't done so yet, read the proposals in draft of the UN Economic
Conference Outcome document made public on May 8 at http://www.un.org/ga/president/63/interactive/financialcrisis/outcomedoc.pdf.
Amongst other reasonable measures, the document proposes that three trillion
dollars, a mere 5% of the world's GDP, be allocated to bail out poor
countries where the scourges of hunger, disease and homelessness have been made
immeasurably worst by the worldwide depression. The bankers of the world, who
have insisted that they get tens of trillions of dollars of bail out money,
don't want to share any this fortune with anyone, least of all the poor of
the planet.
Any measure in the May 8 document that calls for power and wealth being shared
with the poor and working people of the planet will be furiously resisted by
the powers that be.
The banks that the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve have given
trillions of dollars to have recently demonstrated that they have the power to
stop the U.S. Congress from doing anything meaningful to stop the mass eviction
of millions due to home foreclosures. These very same banks believe they have
the right and the power to stop the UN from bailing out the poor, and unless
people organize and fight back, the banks will prevail.
The campaign of the rich against the UN conference on the world economic crisis
should and must serve as a reminder that changes from above are only possible
if there is mass resistance from below. It is this understanding and this
purpose that the People's Economic Summit is dedicated to. The People's
Economic Summit will be discussing such things as how can the mass movements
work together, how can we elevate the organization of the unemployed in the
struggle for jobs, and how do we respond to the next G20 summit meeting
scheduled to take place in September in NYC. Please join us, take part in this
important discussion and help realize the vision and plans that come out of
it.
The Bail Out the People Movement invites you to
a
People's Economic Summit in New York
City
Another world is urgently necessary - but we must fight for
it.
Sunday May 31--11 a.m.
Inside tents in DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA, 47th St. & 1st Ave.
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