[g8-sheffield] Re: Info on Carnival for Full Enjoyment

[adriana]

> 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.

Yep, please try uploading it yourself to the wiki:


http://wiki.sheffieldsocialforum.org.uk/G8

(Click on special pages, upload, and follow instructions).

Thank you so much for your presence







Lydia Molyneaux wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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