[Cc-webedit] G20 blog post proposal

[Jon Leighton]

Looks good - small processy nitpick though, to ask that we keep
blog-related stuff on the cc-socialmedia list now?

Thanks

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:43 +0100, Jonathan Stevenson wrote:
> This looks cool.
> 
> Two small suggestions (I'm not trying to write by committee though, so
> take or leave):
> 
> 1) You put a link to the Indymedia story on the Kingsnorth case from
> 'successful legal action against the Kent Police'.
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/06/453272.html
> 2) You could add 'and for Climate Justice' at the very end - to show
> we're not just targeting RBS.
> 
> J
> 
> Richard Braude wrote: 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Here's a proposal for a post on the G20. If it's okay, I'll put it
> > up on the blog tomorrow.
> > R.
> > 
> > Last year the Camp for Climate Action faced extraordinary policing
> > at the G20. The Climate Camp in the City was not only surrounded and
> > kettled, but between midnight and 1am was removed with force and
> > violence from a quiet street in London, with the sole reason that
> > the protest was obstructing traffic.
> > 
> > These past few days, social and ecological justice groups protesting
> > against the G20 in Toronto have come under even greater police
> > violence and oppression. Today the bedlam continues, as the
> > protesters'convergence centre is raided and locked down, just as the
> > Earl Street centre was raided at the London G20 last year. The vigil
> > for the 500 arrested activists has been kettled and beaten back,
> > just as the vigil for Ian Tomlinson was kettled and silenced on
> > April 2nd last year.
> > 
> > Ray, a woman from the Indigenous peoples' mobilisation against the
> > summit, said:
> > "This is real life, this is the real Canada. This happens happesn
> > everyday but now you can see it. this is g20 freedom of speech. For
> > us, Native people this is what we know. This is Canada."
> > 
> > But there is also hope. The Peoples Assembly for Climate Justice
> > built on the People's Summit in Cochabamba, trying to find a way
> > forward after the collapse of the climate talks in Copenhagen in
> > December, a set of talks which were hurting rather than helping an
> > ecologically just politics.
> > 
> > Just as at Copenhagen, the arrested are starting to be released, one
> > by one. Having destroyed the protests, found excuses for the
> > $1billion policing bill and attempted to paint the G20 summit as
> > legitimate and the protesters as criminals, everyone is expected to
> > move on. But as we've shown here in the UK, we won't let them get
> > away with these actions. The successful legal action against the
> > Kent Police over the absurd policing witnessed at the Kingsnorth
> > climate camp shows that even though these governments and
> > corporations expect us to back down, we keep on resisting.
> > 
> > Over the past few years, the Climate Camp has resisted huge measures
> > to stop us protesting, but lucky for us, we're just don't seem to
> > get the message. So while the G20 leaders continue to send out
> > communiques to the rest of the world, acting as if they have any
> > legitimacy left, we're getting our own act together and heading up
> > to Edinburgh for the UK Gathering, to plan our actions against RBS.
> > 
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