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This looks cool.<br>
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Two small suggestions (I'm not trying to write by committee though, so
take or leave):<br>
<br>
1) You put a link to the Indymedia story on the Kingsnorth case from
'successful legal action against the Kent Police'.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/06/453272.html">http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/06/453272.html</a><br>
2) You could add 'and for Climate Justice' at the very end - to show
we're not just targeting RBS.<br>
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J<br>
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Richard Braude wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTilifWAHbNLDyQCu_koeFN4E9OmKRKb3Z3onEyot@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hey all,<br>
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Here's a proposal for a post on the G20. If it's okay, I'll put it up
on the blog tomorrow.<br>
R.<br>
<br>
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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/993">was removed with
force and violence </a>from a quiet street in London, with the sole
reason that the protest was obstructing traffic.<br>
<br>
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'<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="%20http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/bedlam-continues-reign-toronto/3902">
convergence centre is raided</a> 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.<br>
<br>
Ray, a woman from the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ienearth.org/">Indigenous peoples'</a> mobilisation
against the summit, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/outside-makeshift-prisonfor-us-native-people-what-we-know-canada/3895">said:</a><br>
"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."<br>
<br>
But there is also hope. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/peoples-assembly-keeps-climate-justice-debate-public/3792">The
Peoples Assembly for Climate Justice </a> 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.<br>
<br>
Just as at Copenhagen, the arrested are <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/rabble-staff/2010/06/photo-blog-toronto-police-arrest-and-release-g20-protesters">starting
to be released</a>, one by one. Having destroyed the protests, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/judes/2010/06/toronto-burning-or-it">found
excuses for the $1billion policing bill</a> 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.<br>
<br>
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 <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/get-involved/national-gatherings/next">Edinburgh
for the UK Gathering</a>, to plan our actions against <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecamp.org.uk/actions/edinburgh-2010/why-rbs">RBS</a>.<br>
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