[g8-sheffield] Flyer text n stuff

Fri Apr 1 16:34:07 BST 2005

Hello, hello, !

I have tried in vain to view the flyer or banner you are talking about, 
but will try again at

http://www.pretentiousartist.com
or
http://www.pretentiousartist.org

By the way, could I borrow the urbanparanoia picture of a shopwindow for 
a private purpose site? This is a question to the picture's owner or 
copyright owner.

Then in the text below, the author has forgotten to add some very useful 
links which have already been added to the ssf wiki on the G8,
https://www.sheffieldsocialforum.org.uk/wiki
or https://wiki.sheffieldsocialforum.org.uk/

including my own links on the media feedback. However the dissent! link 
is the best. You don't need to give a lecture on the G8 or what they 
are, imho... not so much the lecturer, but the activist, should shine 
through the speech.

bye bye for now

amparo

It is important to be clear that the G8 Summits are not a policy-making 
forum.  They are a time for the leaders of these states to network and 
build relationships. They are a time to discuss complex international 
issues and crises, to allow for a more powerful collective response. 
The co-ordination of these nations and their unequal influence over 
international institutions such as the WTO, IMF and G20 ensures that 
their interests dominate the world order.

As such the G8 Summits have always been a focus for protests and counter 
summits.  Following the Peoples Global Action call for a united global 
day of
action in 1998, the Summit protests have, however, grown and 
strengthened, forcing the G8 Summits to more and more remote locations 
with ever increasing
security costs.

For more information on the G8 please check out these links:
G8 Information Centre based at the University of Toronto. To be read 
critically.
www.g7.utoronto.ca
Offical Website: www.g8.gov.uk
www.perthshireg8.com
http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/g8calgary.htm
http://www.web.ca/acgc/issues/g8
http://g8.activist.ca/print/
http://www.dissent.org.uk/

Dan wrote:
> Hia,
> 
> Amended text below.  I've changed a few other things, coz I don't know 
> where they came from - we didn't agree them at the meeting.  Listed below:
> 
> 1. Info points?  Eh?  Removed that.  I know it says workshops in the 
> minutes, but it won't be workshops, will it?  It'll just be people 
> breaking down into groups.  Unless anyone on this list can say right now 
> that they're planning x number of workshops...
> 2. makecapitalismhistory.org was explicitly NOT agreed to be the website 
> for this.  Or did I miss something there?  I've replaced it with the 
> national dissent one - can we post something newsy to this?  I'll do 
> this later today maybe.
> 3. Can we not have a more user-friendly e-mail?  E.g. just 
> g8-sheffield at lists.aktivix.org ?  Then the moderators can pick them up?
> 4. Who's is the phone number?  We need to agree who is the public contact.
> 5. Address needs some context: I've added some, hope it helps.
> 6. I've changed the text to focus on the specific issues of terrorism 
> that they'll be discussing, whilst trying to keep the G8 intro stuff.  
> Comments to list before 3, when M will be printing!
> 7. I rather like the 'WE ARE GOING TO BE MEETING THEM' bit!  It's a 
> loose use of the word 'meet', but that's precisely the aim - not blind 
> protest, but meeting their arguments head on.  I just hope no-one thinks 
> we're actually going to be meeting them...
> 
> THE G8 IS COMING TO SHEFFIELD from JUNE 15th - 17th
> TO CONTINUE PLANNING THEIR WAR ON TERRORISM
> WE ARE GOING TO BE MEETING THEM
> WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED?
> THEN COME TO OUR OPEN MEETING
> -SHARE YOUR IDEAS FOR ACTION-
> WHEN?
> WED 20th APRIL 2005  FROM 7pm
> WHERE?
> Adrenalin Recording Studios
> 111 Matilda Street
> Sheffield S1 4QF
> Near the old NCPM
> 
> e-mail: g8-sheffield at lists.aktivix.org
> p: 07786907084
> w: http://www.dissent.org.uk/
> 
> The G8 comes to Sheffield...
> 
> G8 means simply 'group of eight' nations: an exclusive grouping of the 
> political leaders of eight specific countries. These are of course the 
> world's most industrialised, wealthy and powerful states.
> 
> In July, they will be meeting in Scotland.  Before that - from June 15th 
> - 17th - Sheffield is to host a G8 'mini-summit'.  Its focus will be the 
> 'War on Terror'.  This 'war' has meant attacks on our liberties, and the 
> emergence of an international network of torture.  British citizens can 
> now be detained without charge, based on evidence obtained under this 
> torture.  The 'war' has meant acceptance of pre-emptive attacks on 
> anyone, anywhere if the US decides they are a threat.  It has meant 
> rising tension between different communities in Sheffield and 
> elsewhere.  Above all, it has left the vast majority of us much more 
> terrified - not of terrorists, but of the kind of future the G8 leaders 
> are making for us.
> 
> Their visit is a chance for us to tell them what we think.
> G8 background...
> 
> The G8 began as a group of six countries at a time of significant global 
> economic insecurity in the 1970s. The leaders of these countries would 
> argue
> that they gathered, as the leading nations, in order to manage this 
> crisis in the interests of global stability.  A stability that of course 
> ensured that they
> retained their power, with their interests at the heart of the global 
> agenda.
> This has meant the nudging of the global economy in a direction which 
> reinforces the supremacy of private and corporate interests over 
> democratic and collective ones.
> 
> The membership of the g8 has evolved over time to include the US, UK, 
> France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Canada and the president of the 
> European Union.
> The scope of the topics of discussion have also evolved from the first, 
> supposedly one -off meeting that focussed on economic policy.  Now 
> issues of security, trade, relations with developing countries and other 
> trans-national issues and even domestic issues, such as employment have 
> been discussed.
> 
> It is important to be clear that the G8 Summits are not a policy-making 
> forum.  They are a time for the leaders of these states to network and 
> build relationships. They are a time to discuss complex international 
> issues and crises, to allow for a more powerful collective response.  
> The co-ordination of these nations and their unequal influence over 
> international institutions such as the WTO, IMF and G20 ensures that 
> their interests dominate the world order.
> 
> As such the G8 Summits have always been a focus for protests and counter 
> summits.  Following the Peoples Global Action call for a united global 
> day of
> action in 1998, the Summit protests have, however, grown and 
> strengthened, forcing the G8 Summits to more and more remote locations 
> with ever increasing
> security costs.
> 
> For more information on the G8 please check out these links:
> G8 Information Centre based at the University of Toronto. To be read 
> critically.
> www.g7.utoronto.ca
> Offical Website: www.g8.gov.uk
> www.perthshireg8.com
> http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/g8calgary.htm
> http://www.web.ca/acgc/issues/g8
> http://g8.activist.ca/print/
> http://www.dissent.org.uk/
> 
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