[g8-sheffield] The real enemy

[Dan]

What, the Judean People's Front???

IAN WALLACE wrote:

> Please remember who the real enemy is.
>
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>     1. Good and bad protesters (adriana)
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>     Message: 1
>     Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 04:03:32 +0100
>     From: adriana
>     Subject: [g8-sheffield] Good and bad protesters
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>     From our twin team latest comuniqué:
>
>     Dissent are going to be "the bad protesters"
>     MPH are going to be "the good protesters"
>
>     (at least in Scotland)....
>     >
>     Please go on reading:
>
>     All Dissent-wide decisions must be made at Dissent consensus meetings,
>     > however, local groups and working groups can make decisions and
>     even speak
>     > to the media if they wish as local groups. Reshape will be
>     making various
>     > maps and a guide for radicals visiting Scotland, to be available
>     before
>     > the summit. There is another large network called the Southeast
>     assembly
>     > that will be mobilising around the G8, based primarily around
>     London, and
>     > shares many local groups with Dissent.
>     >
>     > Dissent: www.dissent.org.uk
>     > Reshape (Scotland Local Group in Dissent Network):
>     www.reshape.org.uk
>     > Southeast Assembly: www.resistg8.org.uk
>     >
>     > G8 Alternatives: G8 Alternatives is a mostly socialist coalition
>     that only
>     > organises in Scotland. They have monthly meetings that anyone
>     can attend,
>     > and have attracted attention from locals in places in Scotland where
>     > Dissent has not. Although their numbers are small, the Trotskyist
>     > Socialist Workers Party dominates the so-called consensus
>     meetings, making
>     > all decisions behind closed doors in an anti-democratic manner while
>     > pretending to have consensus. The Socialist Workers Party openly
>     > co-operates with the police, and is known for their deceit and
>     will do
>     > everything possible to disrupt anarchists and direct action.
>     However,
>     > parts of G8 Alternatives like Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
>     (CND) and
>     > many of the membership are sympathetic to Dissent, so while we
>     should be
>     > hostile to the Socialist Workers Part*y* (SWP), do not dismiss
>     the rest of
>     > the activists in G8 Alternatives. Their plans are to hold an
>     alternative
>     > summit in Edinburgh and a march on Gleneagles in co-operation
>     with the
>     > police without any direct action.
>     > www.g8alternatives.org.uk
>     >
>     > Make Poverty History: This is one of the largest conglomerations
>     of NGO
>     > (Non-Governmental Organisations) ever, who plan to protest the G8 by
>     > marching the weekend before in Edinburgh in hope of lobbying the
>     G8 to
>     > take on poverty issues in the "Third World". It is led by groups
>     like
>     > Oxfam, their organisers are estimating 100,000 people will
>     march. The
>     > current media focus seems to be on groups of anarchists
>     disrupting the
>     > march and attacking the Scottish Parliament, which as a tactic
>     has never
>     > been mentioned by anyone in Dissent. The march organisers are
>     quite afraid
>     > of this possibility as well. Already the media is casting "Make
>     Poverty
>     > History" as the "good protesters" and Dissent as the "bad
>     protesters".
>     > www.makepovertyhistory.org
>
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>     nightwatcher
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