[g8-sheffield] FW: Re: Counter Conference Workshops Working Group

[Patrick Gillett]

i THOUGHT I'D FORWARD U ALL THIS,
Paddy
p.s. sorry for shouting

>From: Julian R C Briggs <J.Briggs at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
>To: "Patrick Gillett" <paddygillet at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Counter Conference Workshops Working Group
>Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 14:29:03 +0100
>
>Patrick,
>
>Sorry for delayed respons.  I've been away tree planting in
>Scotland.
>
>I'm involved in co-ordinating action by Sheffield Buddhist groups,
>see appended message.  We are not planning anything for the counter
>conference itself and I will be away from mid-afternoon of Saturday
>11th (ie just after the march).
>
>Julian
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>
>Subject: Sheffield Buddhist groups and G8 meeting in Sheffield
>Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 19:26:38 +0100
>
>Dear All,
>
>Several of us from Amida Trust Sheffield (ATS) Buddhist group are
>interested in linking with other Sheffield Buddhist groups for
>action around the forthcoming meeting of G8 Justice and Interior
>Ministers in Sheffield 15th - 17th June.
>
>At our initial (ATS) meeting we considered: joining the march on
>Saturday June 11th in Sheffield as a visible, silent Buddhist
>presence with a banner and/or placards bearing: Sheffield Buddhists:
>Security through Friendship
>
>Other ideas include:
>
>* a gathering of all groups interested to take place at or near
>where G8 will meet (Marriot Hotel Nether Edge), with the theme of
>"Security through friendship"
>
>* giving out copies of the Metta Sutra.
>
>* vigils
>
>* leafleting.
>
>* wearing distinctive colours and perhaps having order members in
>   robes
>
>We agreed to find out if other local Buddhist and Peace groups are
>interested in this, making contact as follows:
>
>FWBO (Gina), Zen - John Darwin (Mike), Gaia House group (Julian),
>Sokka Gakkai & White Plum (Ganden?) NE Derbys Interbeing (Ray),
>Sheffield Interbeing (Heather R), Quakers (Helen), Hope Valley Peace
>Group (Heather R).
>
>If you're interested and would like to keep in touch, reply to this
>email (perhaps with your ideas) and I'll circulate info to those
>interested.
>
>with metta
>
>Julian
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>For details of OTHER actions, see the "Sheffield Against the G8"
>website:
>http://sheffield.dissent.org.uk/
>
>--
>Julian Briggs, Director of IT, Department of Computer Science,
>University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP, 
>UK
>Phone +44 (0) 114-222-1851. Fax +44 (0) 114-222-1810
>j.briggs at sheffield.ac.uk  http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~julian
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>
>
>
>
>Patrick Gillett wrote at 15:46 (GMT +0000) 6 May 2005 :
> >Hello one and all,
> >Apparently you all volunteered to help make this potentially brilliant
> >counter conference for Sheffield Against G8 happen. I volunteered to get 
>you
> >all together, in cyberspace at least, so that we can make a start.
> >
> >Sorry its taken a while but there were some technical hitches after the
> >April 20th meeting.
> >
> >I won't be able to do much in the way of planning in the next week so 
>I'll
> >have to leave it up to the rest of you. Feel free to take the initiative 
>and
> >bounce some emails about.
> >I'd suggest we need to meet each other first but again I'll have to leave
> >that to one for you to arrange as I'm massively busy until the 12th May.
> >
> >One thing we might need to do is to view the space but as some of us have
> >already seen it we can probably give you jist of it as we don't want it 
>to
> >get unnecessarily raided by the police.
> >
> >Also I'm sure there is a way of creating a list instead of having to 
>reply
> >to all everytime but I'm not sure how.
> >
> >Anyway i know nothing so like I said, the ball is rolling....
> >
> >On Ya Bikes,
> >Paddy
> >
> >P.S. If anyone hasn't been getting mail from the lists it might have gone
> >into your junk folder. Alternatively you can add yourself but I'm not 
>sure
> >how. Someone else, less technophobic than me, in this group should be 
>able
> >to inform you.
> >
> >
>
>--
>Julian Briggs, Director of IT, Department of Computer Science,
>University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP, 
>UK
>Phone +44 (0) 114-222-1851. Fax +44 (0) 114-222-1810
>j.briggs at sheffield.ac.uk  http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~julian