[g8-sheffield] Info on Carnival for Full Enjoyment

[Lydia Molyneaux]

Hi,

I was having a look at your websites, and noticed that in your list of G8 
resistance events you didn't have a listing for the Carnival for Full 
Enjoyment.  (An initiative by grass-roots groups in Scotland & beyond aiming 
to make a connection between resisting the G8 and daily struggles around 
issues like work, not working, debt and housing with lots of party and 
protest on Monday 4 July.)

In case you haven't received any of the information before, I'm enclosing 
the text of our last leaflet, together with URL and links.

I could also send a very lovely & colourful graphic to go with it (almost 
200k jpg), but thought I'd ask first before adding that much k to your 
inbox. Let us know if you want it!

If you're looking for a shorter blurb, the first few paragraphs or so could 
do the job.

Bye,
R


CARNIVAL FOR FULL ENJOYMENT 4 July 2005 — Central Edinburgh
No wage slavery · No benefits slavery · No army slavery · No debt slavery

Meet 12 noon, West End of Princes St/ Shandwick Place/ foot of Lothian Rd/

Flex, temp, full-time, part-time, casual and contortionist workers, 
migrants, students, benefit claimers, New Dealers, work refusers, 
pensioners, dreamers, duckers & divers... Bring drums, music, banners, 
imagination for action against the G8 that expresses our resistance in work, 
out of work and wherever we live. Assert our desires for FULL ENJOYMENT with 
fun in the city — and begin to make capitalism & wage slavery history.

The G8
Since the G8 last met in the UK in 1998, we’ve seen more social cuts, 
privatisation and compulsory work schemes in Europe and beyond. This is part 
of a continuing enclosure of resources and means of living — such as water, 
land and housing — around the world. Now the G8 leaders meeting in 
Gleneagles claim to address concerns about climate chaos and world poverty. 
But they really aim to strengthen the system at the root of these 
conditions, and to find more efficient ways of managing, exploiting and 
enclosing us. We can only stop it by abolishing a profit-based economy; by 
dismantling the states and borders that divide us.

Up our street
Gleneagles isn’t the only place we can see international capitalism at work 
— it’s here on the high streets. The bailiff knocking on your door is a 
not-so-distant cousin of the cartel forcing peasants off common land in 
another part of the world. Whole industries such as banks, loan and 
insurance companies thrive on indebtedness as people struggle to make ends 
meet. Job centres, private and government agencies harass claimants to 
accept low-paid work or to labour full-time just for benefits — they even 
intend to put pensioners to work under the slogan of ‘active ageing’! Army 
recruiters target unemployed youth for ‘economic conscription’ with the help 
of job centres. Other firms press workers to accept insecure contracts, cut 
benefits, more work and stress; still others rake it in exploiting refugees 
who are cut off from other workers by racism, the border regime and looming 
slave labour schemes. So much of our work only profits the fat cats or 
serves the state. But it is possible to satisfy our social needs, live more 
and work a lot less.

Claiming what’s ours
Whether we are waged or unwaged, we are often faced with isolation and a 
lack of collective power. We can overcome this by supporting each other in 
job centres, workplaces, compulsory schemes and in our communities — and by 
reaching beyond to find new ways of struggling and living. Let’s share 
information and reclaim what’s ours on the streets, in the shops, on public 
transport.

They say that time is money. Steal some today. Call in sick, go on strike, 
take an extra-long lunch break! Meet friends from far away and next door to 
conspire and celebrate; to disrupt the daily grind of the institutions that 
plunge us into overwork, poverty and debt. When we claim Job Seekers 
Allowance, we’re told to ’actively seek’ work. But we actively seek the end 
of this system based on profit, and we work towards a global community based 
on freedom and cooperation.

www.nodeal.org.uk   email: dissentagainstwork at yahoo.co.uk
Recommended site: www.edinburghclaimants.org.uk