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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The police have told me today that they will not
allow any kind of march in the city centre during the afternoon/evenings of
the G8 visit. In fact they won't allow any sort of gathering at all - they are
using "delegated powers" to stop groups of two or more people. I tried to ask
where the general public would be allowed to move normally and couldn't get a
straight answer. They would be happy for us to demonstrate on Devonshire Green.
I said this was not an option, we wanted to have a presence in the city centre
and to be able to march, we didn't see the point of being coralled on
Devonshire Green, surrounded by police. He - Gary - said Devonshire Green was a
traditional place for demos and there would be people around. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John is rewriting the letter emphasising that this
is an unacceptable infringement of our right to demonstrate. We can then get is
signed by as many people as possible, including any big names we can think of
and send to the press, the police, the Council, whatever. I am trying to find
out exactly what laws are being invoked.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not sure how the SAG8 group will respond in terms
of doing something else/different/more so on the afternoon/evening of the 15th
... as far as I'm concerned, I was only interested in helping set up a peaceful,
well disciplined march and will not get involved in alternatives on the street -
am going to concentrate on getting maximum publicity for this turn of events and
on the other things - march on the 11th, Peace in the Park, demo outside and
questions inside the council meeting ...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Will be interested to hear what you all
think.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jillian</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>