Events – Stop G7 Elmau

Memo from the G7 Mobilization Caravan

Stop G7 Elmau — Sun, 29 May 2022 20:06:38 +0000

For Life – Internationalism and Justice Instead of G7

The G7 can be understood as an image of global injustice and the continuation of oppressive colonial structures. The summit brings together the heads of states of the global north (Japan, France, Great-Britain, Italy, Germany, Canada, and the United States), where they deliberate on the crisis of the world and how to solve them. This year they do so under the German presidency, with the motto: „Fortschritt für eine gerechte Welt“, while excluding the peoples, that are affected most by the global crises of environmental destruction, recessions and war. It seems, the G7 are aware, that their economic and political power relies on the exploitation of countries of the global south.

A counter-proposal to this exclusionary gathering is the G7 mobilization caravan – a three-week tour through Germany in June 2022, where activists from the Global South will make their voices heard and mobilize to protest the G7 summit in Elmau, Bavaria (from June 26-28, 2022). The guests come from different regions of the global south: Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine, Western Sahara, Namibia, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Kurdish diaspora in Germany. They will join the caravan and tell the stories of their struggles embedded in emancipatory, socio-ecological and freedom movements, and the impact of the policies of the G7 countries on these struggles. The stories and experiences they will share, speak to the following subjects:

energy politics in colonial continuity: multinational corporations, NAFTA, fracking, wind energy
land grabbing, dispossession
freedom struggles; decentral and autonomous organization
feminist and workers’ struggles and organization
militarization

The mobilization caravan „For life … instead of G7“ has the following aims:

to make the stories visible that are ignored by the political and economic powers of the West
to show that the most affect peoples and areas (MAPAs) already have solutions to the crises
to connect the struggles of emancipatory, social-ecological and freedom movements of the world that propose an anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal and anti-colonial alternative to the status quo
to strengthen international solidarity between peoples

The current dates of the caravan are the following:

6.06. Bremen – 7.06. Hamburg – 8.06. Hannover – 9.-10.06. Berlin – 11.06. Leipzig – 12.06. Earth First Gathering & Dresden & Jena (tbc) – 13.06. Jena – 14.06. Kassel – 15.06. Dortmund & Lützerath (tbc) – 16.06. Bonn – 17.06. Marburg – 18.06. Frankfurt – 19.06. Karlsruhe – 20.06. Freiburg – 21.06. Stuttgart – 22.06 Würzburg (tbc) – 22.06.-24.06 München – 25.06. Demo München – 26.-27.06. Protest Camp Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Support the caravan through this crowdfunding campaign:
https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/109575

Stop G7 Elmau Press Info, April 7th, 2022

Stop G7 Elmau — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 19:30:00 +0000

In December 2021, the German government announced that the 2022 G7 Summit will be held in Schloss Elmau from June 26 to 28. Thus, the luxury hotel in the Bavarian Alps will once again be the venue for the annual meeting of the heads of state and government of the G7 countries. As in 2015, numerous climate activist, OneWorld, ecological, capitalism-critical, anti-racist, feminist and anti-militarist groups and organizations are planning protests and actions against this summit.

The counter-actions will take place between June 6 and 29, 2022, mainly locally in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen as well as in Munich. In addition to decentralized actions, two large-scale demonstrations are planned:

Saturday, June 25 in Munich
Sunday, June 26 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Between June 24 and 28, there will again be an action camp in Garmisch. Additionally, a mobilization tour and two alternative conferences are being planned. A joint mobilization call of the groups involved in the protests has been published recently.

Find the Call for Action and first information about the protests and our positions on the newly revised Stop G7 Elmau website: www.stop-g7-elmau.info

Please do not hesitate to contact our press team at presse@stop-g7-elmau.info for any enquiries.

G7 Mobilisation Tour

Stop G7 Elmau — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:32:00 +0000

Like 7 years ago, we are organising a G7-Mobilisation-Tour. For the duration of this tour, activists from the Global South will speak of their struggles – struggles that (almost) always are directed at multinational corporations or neocolonial politics of the bad governments. For this trip we are looking for groups all over Germany who want to host the activists and organise an event with them.

The trip will start on 6.06.2022 and we want to be out and about until the start of the G7 Protestcamp in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on June 25th, 2022. From June 25th to 29th we will be at the protest camp with the caravan, where we’ll curate a program-tent with internationalist topics. You can find more information under Actions > G7 Mobilisation Tour. The schedule of the tour will be published in the Events section.

Campaign meeting April 2015

Stop G7 Elmau — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:34:21 +0000

The 5th campaign meeting for oganizing the protests against the G7 summit will be held in Munich on April, 25th/26th 2015. Location and agenda will be announced in time.

We have established a private bed-exchange for that weekend. Please send us offers and requests!

Invitation to the campaign meeting on 2014-12-13/14

Stop G7 Elmau — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:15:37 +0000

The coalition “Stop G7 Elmau” invites you to the next campaign meeting in Munich. The conference’s objectives are ongoing coordination of the protests accompanying the G7 summit in Elmau, planning of actions and meetings of the several work groups. Here’s the invitation as PDF (German), containing all relevant information like directions, agenda, couch surfing etc.

Campaign Meeting on Dec 13th/14th

Stop G7 Elmau — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:41:23 +0000

The next campaign meeting for planning and mobilization will be held on December, 13th/14th in Munich. Please save the date and join us all in Munich again! A detailed invitation will follow in time.

G7 summit postponed

Stop G7 Elmau — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:13:56 +0000

According to a press release issued by the German government the G7 summit has been postponed to Sunday, June 7th / Monday, June 8th. No explanation was given for this deferral. We will revise the schedule of our protests accordingly at the next campaign meeting on December, 13./14. in Munich.