Global elites will meet in Istanbul between 28th September – 7th October to discuss  their new plans for exploiting all humanity and the world. For this reason we organized an extremely festive action programme.
We’re inviting everyone -who has a problem with capitalism and the global destruction it created – to the streets and calling everyone to make Istanbul hell for the IMF & the WB!

RIOT TIME FOR ISTANBUL!

1st October – We’re in the streets against the Social Security Law!
Place: Taksim Gezi Park
Time: 11:00

2nd October – Global resistance day against the ecological destruction of capitalism !
Place: Galatasaray Square
Time: 15:00

3rd October – Global resistance day against Urban Transformation, Gentrification,  and Homelessness !
Place: Taksim Square
Time: 15:00

4th October – Global insurrection day against capitalism
Place: Tunnel Square
Time: 15:00

6th – We’re shutting the IMF & the WB meeting down!
Place: Tunnel Square
Time: 10:00

7th October –We’re shutting the IMF & the WB meeting down!
Autonomous Actions
Place: Everywhere
Time: Any time

THE STAGE IS YOURS, ISTANBUL!

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Spokesmen and bureaucrats of multinational capitalist corporations will be in Istanbul, Turkey on 6 – 7 October for the 2009 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund where they will have decisions to destroy the lives of billions of people.

No doubt, this will be another meeting to save the benefits of capitalist rulers, they will discuss economic packages, reconstructions and austerity politics and constitutional accordance conditions, which only adds another ring to the exploitation chain for the future of the poor and the planet we live on.

First-hand experiences in Argentina, Jamaica, Nigeria, Kenya and elsewhere have long proved that the World Band and IMF policies have no benefits other than indigence and exploitation. IMF and the World Bank, the leading architects of global capitalism, are the primary instruments of the banishment of the poor from their habitat and their homes by urban gentrification politics, commercialization and monopolization of water resources by selling it out to a few international corporations, the condemnation of the local farmers to global capitalist corporations with neo-liberal agriculture policies, and adding new rings to the chains of workers by implementing new employment legislations.

13.000 criminals and possibly even more patrolling forces to protect them will be walking amongst us on those days. Those days will be probably like hell. Police searches, id controls, blocking streets, fencings and so on.

Come on; let’s show them what hell is! Our bonfire will be their nightmare!

We call for a week of global resistance and actions against IMF and WB between 1-8 October. In Istanbul we are planning to organize workshops, exhibitions, movie screenings, conversations and activities against IMF and World Bank. Accommodation for those coming from other cities and abroad will be arranged. If you want to participate in the preparations and the process of mobilization please contact us at direnistanbul@gmail.com

For receiving regular information and updates regarding the preparations visit our webpage: http://resistanbul.wordpress.com/ (English)

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Using fight against illegal migration as a pretext, Turkish government carries out policies based on repression and deprivation of liberty toward refugees and migrants.

Locked in the so called Yabancılar Misafirhanesi, migrants can be held for more than one year in inhumane conditions waiting for their expulsion of Turkey.

On the 20th of September, prisoners of Kumkapı Misafir Hanesi rebelled themselves against their detention conditions and the mistreatments they suffer from the police. We have to be in the front of Kumkapı Yabancı Misafir Hanesi to show the detainees solidarity and to give them support in their struggle against the deprivation of their basic rights.

We call for the closure of these shameful detention places. We call for the end of repression, detention and deportation of migrants.

We call for a demonstration against Turkish migration policies and detention of migrants on Saturday 26, at 12:00 o’clock in front of Kumkapı Misafir Hanesi.

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At the night of September 11, we were also at the Antrepo for the opening of the 11th International Istanbul Biennial. We were there, however, not for adding our words to the absurd cacophony of “radical” statements, which were floating in the air like over repeated tongue twisters but to “zaaart” this spectacle. There is only one answer to your statements like “socialism or barbarism” echoing in the saloon filled with your sponsors, bodyguards, and ministers with fake smiles and old wine smells (catering was so poor indeed; if two peanuts are enough to be sponsor, then we are willing to do it next time!) and it is: “zaaart!”. The rest is empty words.|

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Resistanbul activist have made a march from Bahariye walking down to Kadikoy – shouting slogans, singing songs, giving out flyers, putting up posters – and read their press release in front of the port, inviting people to join the resistance against IMF/WB. After the action resistanbul gang continued playing&singing on the ferry and road up to the headquarters.

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Resistanbul activists have made a “food not money” event against global capitalism and gentrification in Tarlabaşıneighborhood, giving out food – which was recycled from the Organic Market in Ferikoy  and local market in Besiktas.

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In the evening of 5 August, people who had followed the invitation of the Direnistanbul platform gathered in Taksim Square to protest against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

On 6 and 7 October, the two institutions will convene in Istanbul for their annual meeting. The Direnistanbul organisation has declared the week of 1-8 October a week of protests.

At yesterday’s gathering, around 100 people told the IMF and Worldbank, “Don’t Come!”

They asked others who oppose the institutions to join their protests.

The Bandista group supported the demonstration with music.

The demonstrators marched from Taksim Square to Galatasaray Highschool, shouting slogans such as “Capitalism kills in war and peace” and “Millions are hungry, occupied, long live global uprising”.

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