PHM-Exch> People’s G20 Response Preparation Committee, South Korea

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*Newsletter _ July, 2010*

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*People's G20 Response Preparation Committee, South Korea*

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Dear Colleagues,



The fifth G20 Summit will be held in Seoul on November 11th to 12th. This
meeting has grave consequences for the people of Korea and the entire world.
The G20 has appointed itself the principal body responsible for finding a
solution to the global economic crisis and managing the world economy. Yet
it excludes the majority of poor and developing nations from
decision-making. It also seeks to make common people shoulder the burden of
the crisis and to promote neoliberal policies, which have already created
vast poverty and increased inequality. In addition, the South Korean
government is using the upcoming summit as an excuse to severely restrict
democratic rights and carry out a crackdown on migrants, street vendors and
homeless people.



Recognizing the huge impacts posed by the G20 on the rights of people in
Korea and around the world, labor unions, social movement organizations and
progressive NGOs in South Korea formed a People's G20 Response Preparation
Committee (hereafter People's Preparation Committee) on June 18th in order
to respond to the G20 Seoul Summit. The People's Preparation Committee will
take full responsibility for organising various activities and actions
protesting the G20 summit as the representative of South Korean people's,
social and civil movements.



We would like to share with you developments in our preparation for the G20
Summit.



*Four Main Action Principles of People's Preparation Committee*



The People's Preparation Committee agreed to the following four main
principles:



1) We are committed to organising various activities and actions to denounce
the G20 Summit for making people and developing countries pay for the crisis
and criticise the structural problems of neo-liberal financial
globalization.



2) We are committed to organise various activities to denounce the South
Korean government for using the G20 Summit as an excuse to repress democracy
and human rights and ignoring internationally-recognised labour and human
rights standards.



3) We are to maintain political, organisational and financial independence
from the South Korean government and capital, so that we can truly represent
the alternative voices of labour, people's and civil society movements
about/against the G20.



4) We will contribute to strengthening solidarity with local and
international labour, social and civil society movements to build a
labour-and-environment-friendly alternative economy, and to introduce
capital controls and contribute to strengthening the capacity of
international movements against neo-liberal globlaisation.



*Points of Action (provisional) *



Agenda 1. Financial regulation and taxation on speculative capital

Agenda 2. Decent work

Agenda 3. Basic Labour rights

Agenda 4. Environment and climate change

Agenda 5. Alternative trade agreement to FTAs and TNCs

Agenda 6. Food security and agriculture

Agenda 7. Democracy and human rights

Agenda 8. Poverty and development

Agenda.9. Forced migration

Agenda 10. Peace and security

Agenda 11. Gender and G20

Agenda 12. Cultural diversity and IPRs

Agenda 13. Public services





*Main Role of People's Preparation Committee*



People's Preparation Committee will take full responsibility to organise the
following activities and actions.



1) We are committed to organising a People's Week of Collective Action from
November 6th to 12th including:



   * A rally and march on November 11th.

   * A People's Summit

   * Opening and closing ceremonies for the People's Joint Action Week



2) We will organise all possible activities and actions concerning current,
future and emerging issues related to the G20 Summit based on general
consensus among participating organizations, including:



   * Protesting the crackdown against migrant workers, homeless people and
street vendors in the name of a successful G20 Summit.

   * Responding to the G20 Finance (Vice) Ministers and Central Bank
Governors Meetings

   * Protesting the government's repression of democracy and universal human
rights under the excuse of successful G20 Summit.



3) We are encouraging and supporting thematic activities based on the
proposed points of action so as to expand and strengthen our response to the
G20.



4) We are committed to making every effort to encourage social forces to
join the people's G20 actions and strengthen their participation, as well as
to create and build people's alternative positions on the global economic
crisis.



5) We are committed to organising various publicity and public
consciousness-raising activities to expose the fundamental problems of G20
summit.





*People's Summit(provisional title), Seoul*

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South Korean people's, social and civil society organisations are calling
upon international social movements to jointly organise a People's Summit
protesting the G20 Summit. The Peoples' Summit will be organised as part of
the People's Week of Collective Action programmes, and it will be based on
equal participation of all people to develop people's alternative solutions
for responding to the global economic and social crisis.



Korean people's, social and civil society organisations will host the
Peoples' Summit (provisional title) in solidarity with international social
and civil movements to develop peoples' alternatives. The main goal is to
develop a solution to the current crisis and to shield poor people who are
suffering from the impact of the crisis.



The format of the People's Summit will be a forum consisting of several
creative workshops held directly before the G20 Summit. During the People's
Summit people from G20 and non-G20 countries will assess the impact of
current economic and social policies promoted by the G20, and demand
alternative global economic reform and the social change necessary to create
a better world.



*Calendar for People's Week of Collective Action *





- Date: November 6th to 12th

- General Picture of People's Week of Collective Action

* Opening (November 6th)

* National Workers Rally (November 7th)

* People's Summit( November 7th to 9th )

* Press Conference - Seoul Declaration

* Mass Rally and March (November 11th)

* Closing v(November 12th)



*Participating Organisations*

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Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU)

National Association of Professors for Democratic Society(NAPDS)

Citizen's Movement for Environmental Justice

Korean Federation of Medical Groups for Health Rights

Korean Women's Association United(KWAU)

Global Call to Action Against Poverty Korea(GCAP-Korea)

Korean Peasants' League(KPL)

Civil Society Network for Financial regulation and taxation on speculative
capital

Civil Society Organisation Network in Korea

People's Solidarity for Social Progress(PSSP)

People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy(PSPD)

Korean Progressive Solidarity

National Students March

Korean Women Peasant Association

Joint Committee with Migrants in Korea (JCMK)

All Together

Green Korea United

Korean Urban Poor Association

Alternative Forum of University Students

National Democratic Association of Street Vendors

Citizen's Coalition for Economic Justice

Institute for Global Political Economy

Imagine Institute

Corea Institute for New Society

New Community Institute

Institute for New World

SpecWatch Korea

Korean Clerical and Financial Workers Association

NANUMMUNHWA_ Global Peace Activities

Solidarity for Ending Poverty

Energy & Climate Policy Institute for Just Transition (ECPI)

Action for Energy Justice

Migrant Workers Rights Watch, Korea

Solidarity for Street Vendors and Informal Workers

Joint Preparation Committee for Building Socialist Workers Party

Korea Progressive Academy Council

Progressive Strategy Council

Center for Energy Politics(CEP)



*Contacts for the People's Preparation Committee*



- Joint Secretariat Team will be established shortly.

- Official E-mail : peoplesg20action.Seoul at gmail.com



- Thematic working group and/or networks based on each point of action will
also be established.



- Provisionally you can contact the People's Preparation Committee through
the following persons/organizations:



◎ Korean Confederation of Trade Unions

Contact : Mr. Lee Changgeun(bulnavi at gmail.com), / Ms. Ryu Mikyung(
inter at kctu.org)



◎ CSO Network in Korea

Contact: Mr. Sungkyu Oh(ohskks at gmail.com), / Ms Youngmi Yang,(
pspdint at hotmail.com) <pspdint at hotmail.com>



◎ CS Network for Financial regulation and taxation on speculative capital

Contact: Mr. Lee Hanjin (hanjin444 at hanmail.net )



◎ Regional Southeast-east Asia Office, La Via Campesina

Contact: Ms Kim, Haesook(rupina72 at gmail.com )



◎ Energy & Climate Policy Institute for Just Transition(ECPI)

Contact : Mr. Lee Jinwoo(purevil at naver.com)






KFHR(Korean Medical Action Groups for Health Rights)
Director of Planning Board, Byeon, Hey-jin
phone +82-2-3675-1987 fax +82-2-766-6025
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