[g8-sheffield] [Fwd: [ssf] G8 arrests in Derby] someone else could write an analysis
Philippe Deux
hjdsmdr at mixmail.com
Mon Mar 21 00:59:29 GMT 2005
I propose this twofold approach (the artistic approach, together with
urbanparanoia):
grounds: the key to reject violence from protesters : if you don't
ignore orders against the public protest, there's nothing to fear.
Check sheffield indymedia:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2005/03/306796.html
Critical mass would be out of place. "Processions" as the derby city
council labeled marches, were be banned. Entirely. (What about using the
air perimeter? Balloons banned as well?)
idea 1: an artistic approach that takes symbolism into account is
proposed, together with the more pragmatic one: $$$$$.
At Derby M17, Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups were
reported as having sent *an oil barrel containing hundreds of water
bottles*
(this seem to imply that symbolism may be working better than other
types of action)
(how did they send it to the G8 summit? by messenger? this could be the
point: any response/reaction ?))
For Derby as a sample, check excellent indymedia
pictures showing the official printed order glued to lamp posts.
two: the immense, disproportionate *EXPENDITURE* by police forces and
their authorities: this is every taxpayer's waste of money: public
should be informed. (check protesters on one side and forces on the
other). *Expected* floods of bearded dirty anarchists are a *lie* to
account for such an expenditure.
three: what a shame for "left" political parties? where are they? on the
other side of the pen?
Check indymedia photo again: the few protesters inside an allowed "pen":
people from Derby on the other side, watching street theatre... and
mass police force around every ring. Describe protesters: how violent
they look, indeed! Mothers and fathers with their young children... Are
these
the tsunami of anarchists without a warning system to protect the oceans?
o hell! o yell! o butterflies!
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Dozens of protestors staged a "go-slow" bike ride through the city
streets and some were arrested for ignoring orders against public protests.
A meeting later in the city's Market Square passed off peacefully.
Campaigners sent an oil barrel containing hundreds of water bottles to
the G8 summit to raise awareness of drought conditions in some parts of
Africa.
"People in Africa need clean water, not oil," Ms Lister said.
Derbyshire Police said the summit is the biggest operation the force has
had to deal with since the miners' strike.
The force successfully requested powers from the Home Office to ensure
protestors have to meet at an agreed central meeting place.
*On 14 March BBC Derby said
*A Home Office spokesperson said: "The Home Office has received two
applications from Derby City Council under the Public order Act 1986.
"They are for a ban on marches through Derby city centre and for a ban
on trespassary assemblies in the parishes of Long Eaton, Breadsall and
Morley.
Dan wrote:
> Robin's pasted a very interesting article below. Question now is -
> what do we do?
>
> Can anyone write up any minutes from Wednesday's meeting / give any
> bullet points? (Sorry for not making it. Slight burn-out this
> week!)
>
> Dan
>
> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ssf] G8 arrests in
> Derby Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:49:24 +0000 From: Robin
> Ouzman <ouzman at giftoftongues.co.uk> To: SSF
> <ssf at lists.aktivix.org>
>
>
>
> The City Council itself asking for bans on marches. The force asking
> for a protesting "focus" and avoid mobile actions. Twelve protestors
> arrested yesterday at Derby (from about 150, about 10%?) No "legal
> observers" present. Hello up there, Looking at these facts, doesn't
> it seem as a bit more reasonable to call the g8 to disband (just to
> make things clear to the public), give some press-conferences before
> (as i keep suggesting ), a press conference can be made by two
> persons, and just forget about the whole b***dy thing.
>
>
> (anyway, just keep reading:)
>
>
> Don't know anything about arrests, but this report was in the
> Guardian. Looks like they were holding a practice run.
>
> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,9061,1440584,00.html
>
> *2,000 police close school and throw five-mile ring of steel round
> village in £2m top security alert for environment meeting
>
> *Paul Brown, environment correspondent Friday March 18 2005 The
> Guardian
>
> In what Derbyshire police called the biggest security operation since
> the miner's strike, 2,000 police from 10 forces sealed off Breadsall
> Priory hotel and country club yesterday so environment and
> development ministers from 20 countries could talk to each other.
>
> A five-mile ring of steel fencing with a specially laid metal road
> capable of carrying fully laden riot vans on 24-hour patrol was one
> of five perimeters set up to protect the 30 ministers. The operation,
> costing at least £2m, included the closure of Breadsall village
> primary school for two days.
>
> The venue, chosen because it is close to the constituency of Margaret
> Beckett, the environment secretary, and MP for Derby South, is
> normally a £110 a night golf and health hotel.
>
> On the advice of Derbyshire police, following "intelligence reports",
> Mrs Beckett insisted that full security measures be taken. The
> number of police and sheer scale of the operation is in marked
> contrast to a meeting two days earlier, involving many of the same
> ministers, which was held at the Brewery Centre in Chiswell Street in
> central London.
>
> There 25 police were deployed to keep in check a demonstration of
> around 50 people while Gordon Brown, the chancellor, made his first
> speech about climate change.
>
> Police from as far afield as Brighton and Durham were bussed in to
> protect the ministers who met for two hours yesterday afternoon
> before being taken in police convoys to Chatsworth House 10 miles
> away for dinner, where they were protected by another large police
> presence.
>
>> From Derby it took two hours for journalists to penetrate the
>> police
> cordons, even though all had registered in advance. Some delegates,
> who had come by car and not taken advantage of the first-class train
> compartments from London used by ministers, were also caught in
> police cordons. Among them was Ian Johnson, vice-president for
> sustainability at the World Bank in Washington.
>
> "I confess I have never seen anything on this scale before, this
> number of police and these steel perimeters," he said. "The police
> are only doing their job, however, and are all very good humoured
> about it."
>
> He had to leave his car two miles away in Drum Hill Scout Camp and
> penetrate five roadblocks and security checks to reach Breadsall
> Priory. Police using dogs and explosive experts searched everyone
> entering the site.
>
> A demonstration march from the centre of the city to the conference
> centre planned by environment groups including Friends of the Earth
> was banned by the home secretary, Charles Clarke. Instead around 150
> demonstrators were allowed to hold a rally outside the town hall.
> They were outnumbered five to one by police.
>
> Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth, said: "While we
> welcome the first ever meeting of environment and development
> ministers to discuss critical issues like climate change and Africa
> we deeply regret the fact they feel they have to hide behind security
> shields and police cordons to avoid the very people they are
> supposed to represent. It is hardly surprising that if they only talk
> to each other and not to the people whose problems they are supposed
> to be solving they do not achieve very much."
>
> Journalists from as far away as China were confined to the golf club
> house at the hotel and ministers, meeting 150 metres away in a hotel
> annexe, were invited to come and talk to them. In fact none did
> yesterday, although a press conference is due to be held today.
>
> Officials said environment ministers were discussing the report of
> Tony Blair's Commission for Africa yesterday and the problems of
> species loss and maintaining biodiversity.
>
> Today they will be discussing how to improve the delivery of
> international aid after the tsunami disaster on Boxing Day and
> climate change in Africa in the light of the Commission for Africa's
> report.
>
> They will also hope to have a policy to prevent continuing trade in
> illegal logs to the developed world.
>
> Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited
>
>
>
> At 15:22 18/03/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
>> I see from the Herald that the 5000 anarchist demonstraters who
>> would 'riot in the streets of Derby' turned out to be 150 people
>> with a 'peaceful and party-like' atmosphere. But there were 10
>> arrests for public order offences. Does anyone know anymore?
>>
>> Jane
>>
>>
>>
>>> From BBC DERBY 17 March
>>
>> Protestors arrested at G8 summit
>>
>> Hundreds of police are on duty at the G8 summit *Twelve
>> environmental protestors have been arrested for public order
>> offences on the first day of a G8 summit meeting in Derbyshire.*
>>
>> About 100 demonstrators gathered in Derby city centre to raise
>> awareness of Africa's need for water.
>>
>> Calle Lister from Friends of the Earth said police overreacted to
>> what was intended as a peaceful protest.
>>
>> Government ministers from around the world are meeting for an
>> environment summit at nearby Breadsall Priory.
>>
>> *'Water not oil'*
>>
>> Dozens of protestors staged a "go-slow" bike ride through the city
>> streets and some were arrested for ignoring orders against public
>> protests.
>>
>> A meeting later in the city's Market Square passed off peacefully.
>>
>> Campaigners sent an oil barrel containing hundreds of water bottles
>> to the G8 summit to raise awareness of drought conditions in some
>> parts of Africa.
>>
>> "People in Africa need clean water, not oil," Ms Lister said.
>>
>> Derbyshire Police said the summit is the biggest operation the
>> force has had to deal with since the miners' strike.
>>
>> The force successfully requested powers from the Home Office to
>> ensure protestors have to meet at an agreed central meeting place.
>>
>>
>> *On 14 March BBC Derby said
>>
>> *A Home Office spokesperson said: "The Home Office has received two
>> applications from Derby City Council under the Public order Act
>> 1986.
>>
>> "They are for a ban on marches through Derby city centre and for a
>> ban on trespassary assemblies in the parishes of Long Eaton,
>> Breadsall and Morley.
>>
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Resists G8 Sheffield "Letter to G8" – asks governments behind the G8 to
disband – Press release- Press conference, (date, place, contact)
resist g8 2005 – media coverage – www.agp.org
Press Release Wednesday xxxxxxx 2005
Over 2005, the UK holds the Presidency of the G8, and over this year
will be hosting a series of ministerial meetings around the UK,
culminating in the heads of state summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, on
6-8th July Ministers from the G8 countries will gather to discuss a
range of issues from security, trade, relations with developing
countries, energy and the environment. Even domestic issues, such as
employment will be discussed. The meeting to be held in Sheffield will
be on justice and home affairs issues, including including
counter-terrorism, migration, law enforcement, legal affairs and hi-tech
crime.
Over the past several years G8 Summits have 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 inaccesible
locations with ever increasing security costs. The venue for the
Ministerial meetings in Sheffield and the security implications that
will follow are not yet known.
In the words of activist Casey Vayan Todos: "TV cameras will show
contextless images, newspapers will report the protests as isolated
aberrations, "failures of the democratic process". Those who are there
will know better, that we're reaching towards a better, more directly
democratic idea. We know that with the chains we break and the
friendships we make this summer, we will take more steps towards
building the new world that exists in all of our hearts."
A petition for the G8 to disband will be distributed for further
publication.
Press Conference - Home Office, London - Thursday 3rd March 12.00 noon
For years anti-detention and anti-racist campaigners have been
highlighting alleged violence and abuse against immigration detainees by
Home Office contractors during detention and the removal process.
Many of our allegations have been substantiated by various government
reports but little has changed.
For the last 9 months we have provided input into the BBC's 60 minute
"Asylum Undercover" documentary which will be broadcast on BBC1
Wednesday 2nd March at 9pm
"The Real Story goes undercover to expose evidence of racism and
violence at the heart of UK's asylum system. Over a period of three
months, two BBC journalists worked undercover in a detention centre and
for a company that escorts asylum seekers and immigrants around the
country. Their investigation uncovers disturbing evidence of a culture
of violence, abuse and assaults against detainees. Contains very strong
language."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/programme.shtml?day=wednesday&service_id=4223&filename=20050302/20050302_2100_4223_57791_60
Despite a wealth of reports from detainees, anti-detention campaigners,
government officials, and independent monitory bodies - perpetrators of
violence and abuse against detainees have not been adequately held to
account and, indeed, the private profit making companies involved have
been rewarded with further lucrative contracts, the details of which
often remain "commercially confidential".
No less significant than racism and physical violence are the less
visible abuses which undermine asylum claims - unreasonable asylum
determinations based on flawed material, lack of legal representation
and the erosion of access to appeal rights.
Press Conference - Home Office, London - Thursday 3rd March 12.00 noon
--
Disclaimer:
In support of global demonstrations against xxxxxx
, a broad grouping of people will protest on XXXXXto educate people of
Sheffield about the negative impacts of Capitalism.
Protests begin at XXXpm at the XXXX, 11-16 XXXXXX
Press Contact: xXXXXXX or XXXX: 089999333
On Tuesday 26 September a group of Belfast residents plan to highlight
problems created by the governments behind the G8 summit. While many
people consider these institutions to only create problems in developing
countries, local activists point out that the economic liberalisation
policies advocate can be traced to Brightside in Sheffield. These
concerns are the same as those echoed by thousands of protesters on the
streets everywhere. Activists claim that G8 policies can be addressed
by consumers here in Sheffield.
Over 2005, the UK holds the Presidency of the G8, and over this year
will be hosting a series of ministerial meetings around the UK,
culminating in the heads of state summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, on
6-8th July Ministers from the G8 countries will gather to discuss a
range of issues from security, trade, relations with developing
countries, energy and the environment. Even domestic issues, such as
employment will be discussed. The meeting to be held in Sheffield will
be on justice and home affairs issues, including including
counter-terrorism, migration, law enforcement, legal affairs and hi-tech
crime.
Over the past several years G8 Summits have 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 inaccesible
locations with ever increasing security costs. The venue for the
Ministerial meetings in Sheffield and the security implications that
will follow are not yet known. Organiser XXXXXXXX explains why the
Belfast S26 collective is protesting outside of the Ulster Bank. “The
world's major banks are involved in underwriting or selling bonds in the
World Bank. This includes the Ulster Bank, part of the Natwest Group,
and HSBC and Barclays Bank.” Instead of helping the poor, these funds
are then passed on to multinationals like Exxon who have recently been
handed millions to fund a 600 mile oil pipeline from Chad to Cameroon,
which will wreck the local environment and destroy local communities.
“These banks are trading in misery for the Third World and reaping the
profits from environmental destruction. Demand that these institutions
divest from the World Bank – and boycott World Bank bonds.”
Event organiser Jason Kirkpatrick also expressed concern about global
labour policies of Disney, explaining that workers in Haiti and China
have their basic human rights violated in order to bring cheap Mickey
Mouse tee shirts to Belfast. “Workers live in appalling conditions and
are forced to meet production quotas in Haiti that are impossible to
meet. Because they can’t meet the quotas, they only receive pay valued
at less than a pound a day.” Similar conditions exist in China and one
worker there recently stated that her Chinese co-workers at the plant
making Disney clothes had no hopes and no dreams for themselves or their
families. (www.cleanclothes.org)
Spokesperson for the Derry S26 collective, Goretti Horgan, says "there
are so many reasons to protest against the IMF and World Bank, it's hard
to know where to start. But it's clear from our campaigning on the
streets of Derry that the majority of people here want to see third
world debt scrapped immediately. Ms. Horgan claims that "The
International Monetary Fund (IMF) which is meeting in Prague this week
squeezes billions from the poor. Between 1980 and 1992 the poorest
countries paid 3 times more to the IMF and World Bank than their
original debt. The debt burden of the poorest countries kills 19,000
children every day. The poor countries of sub-Saharan Africa owe more
than £300 billion in debts. In Ethiopia debt repayments are four times
greater than spending on health. In Tanzania, where 40 percent of people
die before the age of 35, debt repayments are six times more than health
spending.” (More IMF/World Bank info at: www.inpeg.org)
The Belfast group urges community groups, trade unions, families, young
people, and anyone concerned with the future of Sheffield to attend
demonstrations on xxxx. Protests begin at 3:30pm at the xxxxxxxx, and
proceed up Royal Avenue.
For further information, see: http://praha.indymedia.org/, or the S26
site at: http://www.x21.org/s26/
SADY, NCADC and CARF invite you to a Press Conference outside the office
of the
Home Secretary
Peel Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
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