Counter-G8 International Forum
Welcome to Counter-G8 International Forum Web Site!
The G8 summit will be held from July 7 to 9 of this year, at Toya-ko lake in Hokkaido. These days the Japanese Government and media are busily engaged in promoting the summit. But on the other hand, many civic groups, NGOs, NPOs and other groups or networks which are opposed to the kind of globalization promoted by G8 are in the process forming variety counter-movement alternatives.
Such phenomena arenﾕt limited to Japan, and are no doubt part of the worldwide context of global justice movements that spring up in the wake of Seattle in 1999 and Genoa in 2001.
In order to respond politically, socially, culturally and theoretically to the worldwide situation, we will get together from the inside and outside of Japan and hold an international counter-forum using the university as public space.
Let get together and discuss alternative(s) of and the future after the globalization led by G8.
Schedule
- Mon, June 30, 13:00-17:00, Panel Discussions at Surugadai Memorial Hall of Chuo University (Kanda-Surugadai 3-11-5 , Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
- Mon, June 30, 18:30-20:30, Main Roundtable at Liberty Tower of Meiji University (Kanda-Surugadai 1-1 , Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
- Tue, July 1, 18:30-20:30, Panel Discussions at Liberty Tower of Meiji University (Kanda-Surugadai 1-1 , Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
- Thu, July 3, 13:00-21:00, Panel Discussions at Hokkaido University (Sapporo).
Forum in Sapporo
Panel Discussion at Hokkaido Univ. Enyu Campus (Nishi 6 cho-me, kita 18 zyo, Kita-ku, Sapporo).
- Thu, July 3
- Part I 12:00-14:00
Globalization and University
Takashi Sakai, Gen Hirai, Yoshiharu Shiraishi and others!
Art & Activism
Franco Berardi, Harry Halpin, Will Connor, Masanori Oda (Ill Commonz) - Part II 14:15-16:15
International Solidarity as the Alter-Globalization
Andrej Grubacic, Massimo De Angelis, Lisa Fithian, Sabu Koso
Globalization and Environmental Issues
Brandon Jourdan, Kazunori Nakamura, Hirokazu Ohtawara and others!
Main Forum in Room No. W103 of "W Building" at Hokkaido Univ. (Nishi 7 cho-me, kita 10 zyo, Kita-ku, Sapporo).
- Thu, July 3
- Hokkaido : The Semi-Periphery of the Global North
- David Graever, Tsutomu Hashimoto, Minoru Iwasaki, Ken Hirano
Contact
Counter-G8 International Forum - Secretariat
Tel: 080-5539-6059 Fax: 042-330-5406
Email: info@counterg8forum.org URL： http://www.counterg8forum.org
Aiding funds to our Postal Transfer Account, No. 00100-9-357506, "Counter-G8 International Forum - Comitee" （郵便振替口座00100-9-357506番「G8対抗国際フォーラム実行委員会」）
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