G-20 Nations: Race to the Bottom will Continue http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/g-20-nations-race-bottom-will-continue/3899

As the G-20 summit winds down behind the fences surrounding fortress Toronto, there are at least 560 folks in jail, and anyone left out on the streets is facing detentions, beatings, searches and arrests.This is the context in which the Group of 20 gathered to write the Toronto Summit Declaration, a 27 page document released earlier this evening.

An early critical reading of this text makes it evident that those who have taken great risk to mobilize against the G20 have done so on behalf of the health of communities, and the planet.Because though the Toronto Declaration begins with a populist appeal to sustainability, job creation and financial regulation, it enshrines a commitment to force the poor and working class around the world to tighten their belts yet again as states implement strict new austerity programmes.