[g8-sheffield] Corporate Watch G8 map + Freedom to Protest conference

[spodulike at freeuk.com]

To aid campaigners intending to protest against the G8 summit, 
Corporate Watch has produced a map illustrating how the corporate 
agenda is being pushed at the G8, in Scotland and across the world:
http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1691

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From:  Freedom to Protest ftpco at freedomtoprotest.org.uk

Subject: Freedom To Protest Conference - please circulate widely

Please circulate widely...

FREEDOM TO PROTEST 
Conference

Sunday October 23rd 2005   
11am - 5pm   

At The Resource Centre - 356 Holloway Road, London, N7   (5 mins from 
Holloway tube.  Buses: 4, 17, 29, 43, 153, 253, 259, 271, 279 and X43)
-  admission free

· to share experiences, and promote mutual aid & co-ordination among 
groups threatened by repressive laws
· to develop effective strategies for standing up for our freedom to 
protest against injustice and oppression

www.freedomtoprotest.org.uk

Any oppressive laws can be rendered unworkable through protest, non-co-
operation and defiance.


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We will not be silenced!

There are a whole range of repressive and outrageous measures 
increasingly being used by police and companies to try to intimidate 
and undermine all manner of protests - including peace and anti-war, 
anti-capitalist, Palestinian solidarity, environmental, workers, animal 
rights and 
other campaigns.

These measures include protests being banned, ASBOs against protestors, 
injunctions, police encircling and detaining protestors for hours on 
end, harassment from police 'intelligence' teams, road blocks to stop 
protests, and new threats from the government's Serious Organised Crime 
and Police Act. 

Its time to stand up for everyone's freedom to leaflet, picket, 
assemble and march against injustice and oppression. Such rights and 
freedoms have not been handed down by the powers-that-be, but won 
through struggles over the last 100 years or more. 

There are many examples of campaigns and movements successfully 
refusing to be intimidated by legal threats. Oppressive laws can be 
made unworkable by determination and solidarity among those affected, 
by mass defiance, and by turning the tables on those who would try to 
silence and suppress dissent. 

This conference is being organised by campaigns and groups affected by 
the latest wave of repressive laws  we hope all such organisations and 
movements will send in messages of support, help publicise the event 
and encourage people to attend! 

Contact:  conference at freedomtoprotest.org.uk      
www.freedomtoprotest.org.uk

Supporting groups include:  
McLibel Support Campaign, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, 
Legal Defence and Monitoring Group, Privacy International, Parliament 
Square Peace Campaign and Brian Haw Supporters, Haringey Solidarity 
Group, Legal Action for Women, Rhythms of Resistance, Smash EDO 
Campaign, Speak - The Voice For Animals, Haringey Against ID Cards, 
FreeBEAGLES.org, Worthing eco-action

Wherever there is injustice or oppression, there is protest and 
resistance...


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I / we support the Freedom To Protest conference ...  

Organisation ............. Contact name ...............

Address ................. Email ...........  Tel .......

Please fill in and return to <conference at freedomtoprotest.org.uk> 
or FTP network c/o McLibel Support Campaign, 5 Caledonian Rd, N1 9DX