Am 24.05.2005 um 01:44 schrieb Jillian Creasy:
Hi there,
ArialThe 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.
Thanks to you Jillian and John for negotiating. I think that
is playing right into our hands.
It is what we expected in a way and I think we should use this to
generate publicity as it is outragous. I cannot believe how stupid
they are anyway. The same is happening in Gleneagles as G8
alternatives is being denied to march there during the conference.
THey make it all to obvious: Freedom is slavery, war is peace,
democracy is staying at home and shut up.
Arial
ArialJohn 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.
is good and important. In my opionion
though the rewritten letter should focus on the right to demostrate
being deprived of us, without mentioning the way we would have had the
march (e.g. well disciplined and the like) because that sounds a bit
odd to me. The right to protest is a fundamental right, full stop, it
is not subject to further regulations, micro self management, forward
self diziplin and the like...
ArialNot 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 am concerned, gathering
on Devonshire Green with sound system and hang out there anyway. We
could stage a protest there for the right to demonstrate, e.g. by
having our mouths taped, our hands cuffed. We have to make sure that
we are on top of it though, do not want people to get frustated by
sheer police force as expressed by some after Derby...we are more
powerful than they can possibly imagine...
Arialas 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
is it feasable to get the stop the
war coalition to express solidarity on the 11th to us being denied to
march on Wednesday? Like having all banners just in black, as if they
were being censored, having no speeches and everybody quite, no
slogans....publicity wise that would generate a lot more attention and
it also makes more sense than the usual march, speech, go home and
feel powerless type of thing...
Arial, Peace in the Park,
demo outside and questions inside the council meeting ...
would like to emphazise our possibilites to raise awareness
during the counterconference...after the nottingham dissent meeting, I
have the impression that we can expect quite a few people to come
over. The program is slowly growing as there will be meeting of make
borders history and other campaigns in preparation of G8 in Scotland.
ArialWill be interested
to hear what you all think.
Do not forget, that we are using the G8 being in Sheffield to
deconstruct their faul narrative of freedom and democracy (pronouced
the american way) and they are of great help to us in this respect.
May the force be with thou
Fabian
ArialJillian
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