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Hamburg is transforming itself into an Orwellian dystopia for the G20 Summit

Link: Diem 25: Hamburg is transforming itself into an Orwellian dystopia for the G20 Summit

On July 7-8 the G20 Summit is happening in Hamburg. The city’s authorities plan to transform it into a democracy-free zone of complete surveillance, enforced by paramilitary means. We wrote the letter below to the Senate of Hamburg to protest.
DiEM25 will be in Hamburg for the Summit to take the fight to the Establishment in our own special way: with Constructive Disobedience. All welcome – join us!

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OPEN LETTER

Honourable Senators of the City of Hamburg,

We are the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a pan-European alliance of European citizens for the democratisation of Europe. What we are witnessing in Hamburg worries us deeply.

In less than three weeks from now, the world’s attention will be drawn to your city, as you host the planet’s most powerful heads of state for the G20 summit. Let us be clear: the G20 has no democratic mandate: it embodies the politics of austerity, social inequality, war and ecological destruction. The protests and draconian security measures that follow G20 summits around the world are testament to this group’s odiously illiberal and autocratic nature. Continue reading “Hamburg is transforming itself into an Orwellian dystopia for the G20 Summit”