(en) US, September 23-25: Resist the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh

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G20 Resistance Organizing Updates: Update #1 of the www.organizepittsburgh.org/G20 Call To
Action: September 23-25: Resist the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh Join Thousands at a Three Day
Convergence of Action, Resistance and Hope ---- Pittsburghers didn’t ask the G20 to come
here, but it is our intention that the worldview the summit represents will die here. ----
This September 24-25 Pittsburgh will host the next summit of the G20, a group of finance
ministers and central bank governors from the world’s largest economies who meet twice
yearly to discuss and coordinate the international financial system. Around 1,500
delegates, including heads of state, will be here along with more than 2,000 members of
the media, and thousands of police and security agents tasked with squelching dissent.
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