By Ellie Dorritie
The third G20 summit is going to be in Pittsburgh on September 24-25, 2009. The challenge before the movements for economic and social justice, as well as the antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that govern the world economy be met with a powerful mass-mobilization demanding that jobs and social needs prevail over war and greed here in the US and around the world.

The G20 summit is taking place in response to the greatest worldwide economic crisis since the 1930s. However, these high-level meetings of governments and bankers aren’t meant to rescue the people of the world from depression-level unemployment, evictions, homelessness, poverty, social and economic inequality, and war. These summits are about fixing the economic and financial system that puts profits before people, by creating more poverty and suffering.

The last G20 summit, held in London in early April, was met with massive protests both there and throughout Europe. Now it’s up to activists and organizations here to take up the challenge of working together to organize a mobilization for Pittsburgh in September.

The Bail out the People Movement, a coalition of community, labor, religious and grassroots activists, wants to help dramatize the crisis of joblessness.  On Sunday, Sept. 20, a Tent City will open with a rally and march for jobs. The main site for the tent city will be next to the Monumental Baptist Church in an historic section of the African-American community of Pittsburgh called “The Hill,” just a short walk from the convention center where the G20 summit will be held.

Be part of organizing cars, vans, and buses from Buffalo, as caravans full of unemployed people and their supporters from all over the country converging on Pittsburgh to inhabit the Tent City from Sept 20 through Sept 25!

Contact: iacbuffalo@peoplesmail.net