The world in which we are preparing the G8 summit in Genova is one full of deep injustices. 20% of the world population - in countries with advanced capitalism - wastes 83% of the resourses of our planet; 11 million children die every year of malnutrition and 1.3 billions live on less than one dollar per day.
This situation does not improve: it is worsening continuously.
The international importance of this summit represents a challenge to all those organizations that for a long time have worked to affirm - with different methods and priorities- principles of social justice, solidarity, and  just and sustainable development.
The challenge must be met! We must contribute all together to publicise all the different projects which are involved in actions of international cooperation, enviromental protection,  citizens’ and  workers’ rights, promotion of ethical and solidaristic economic models, development of multiethnic communities, affirmation of principles of peace and fighting against injustices  supported by the organizations of the civil society. The sum total of these experiences must be an element of growth for the society: it must be fully co-opted into an itinerary which, between today and July 2001, will develop initiatives of sensitization to, and denunciation of, this inacceptable situation. It is necessary to build a new way of thinking in order to respond to those dominant cultural models that - by means of a growing social disruption - enforce behaviour which hinder even the dream of a better society. But a different world is possible!
This must be the sense of the challenge to pass on to the citizens. The international organizations, upon which the attention of a growing global movement is focussing, should be forced to take into account a population ever more attentive and determined to ask for democratic processes and new horizons of social and economical justice.

Work Agreement
For all these reasons, the signatory organizations commit themselves to a work agreement which plans to:
1. become fully active for the sensitization of the citizens tothe themes which represet the particular focus of every single association, respecting their autonomous ways and procedures.
2. ask the local and national public administrations for the assurance of wide spaces for everyone, for activities, projects and demonstrations that will be organized in these months and during the Summit.
3. Above all  we demand that the right of demonstration not be subjected to groundless restrictions.
4. act in coordination in order to favour the smoothest flow of information and advance all the initiatives in the program.
5. respect all the forms of expression, of demonstration and of direct and non-violent actions declared in a public and transparent form.
Through this document the signatory organizations launch an appeal to all interested organizations and   networks and to those who are already working against the G8 Summit, to meet in a short time to better coordinate their energies and purposes, to begin a confrontation with the world of scientific research and politics, to pursue the above mentioned goals in the best possible way.