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<P align=center>Tell Sheffield Council what you think about the G8 meeting
here</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial>
<P align=center>On <B>Wednesday June 1st,</B> </P>
<P align=center>Jillian Creasey, Green Party councillor, will be putting a
motion to the meeting of the Sheffield City council questioning the decision to
host the G8 meeting.</P>
<P align=center>This is more likely to be heard if we are there in strength in
the public gallery asking questions of our own. </P>
<P align=center>Come along at </P>
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<P align=center>to the Town Hall on Pinstone Street</B> </P></DIR>
<P align=center>and ask for the Council Chamber Public Gallery. </P>
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<P>We can take turns asking some of these questions - or bring your own
………….</P><B>
<P>Lack of consultation re visit</P>
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<P>How was the decision to host the G8 in Sheffield taken?</P>
<P>How have city traders and businesses been informed of arrangements for the
visit?</P>
<P>Have the churches and other faith communities been consulted about the
visit?</P>
<P>Was the appropriate Area Panel informed or consulted re the G8 visit?</P>
<P>Why was hosting the G8 not discussed in Full Council?</P>
<P>Were all the party leaders consulted about the G8 visit?</P></DIR><B>
<P>Effects in city</P>
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<P>Will the G8 visit put Sheffield on the map because of mass protests?</P>
<P>What will be the economic effect of closing down the city centre for 3
days?</P>
<P>What will the G8 visit do for our credentials as a Fairtrade city?</P>
<P>Will the city council assess the effects of diverting most of its police
force into protecting the G8?</P>
<P>What compensation has been offered to city centre traders and businesses?</P>
<P>Will the buses and trams run as normal throughout the G8 visit?</P>
<P>Is it true that the people of NetherEdge have been issued with
passes?</P></DIR>
<H1>G8 agenda</H1>
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<P>Will the G8 discuss ways of helping Sheffield’s 300+ destitute asylum
seekers?</P>
<P>Will the G8 discuss ways of stopping people fleeing environmental
disasters?</P>
<P>Will the G8 discuss ways of stopping people fleeing war?</P>
<P>Will the G8 discuss the conditions of detainees in Guantanamo?</P>
<P>Will the G8 discuss control orders for people who haven’t had been
tried in court?</P>
<P>Will the G8 discuss ID cards?</P>
<P>Will the G8 discuss how to police anti-war protests?</P>
<P>Which member of the G8 does the Council Leader most admire, and why?</P>
<P>If the G8 is such a good thing, why should they be afraid of Sheffield
people?</P>
<P>When will Sheffield invite the leaders of the 8 poorest nations of the
world?</P>
<P>What has the G8 done to close the gap internationally?</P>
<P>The G8 is a self selected, unelected caucus which meets outside the UN or the
WTO – what kind of example does this set to national and local
government?</P>
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<P>Jillian’s Motion</P>
<P>That this Council :-<BR>(a) notes that:<BR>(i) the G8 countries are the most
rich and powerful in the World but represent only one tenth of its
population;<BR>(ii) the G8 meetings are a caucus for this self-selected group to
discuss strategy outside electorally accountable bodies such as the United
Nations or World Trade Organisation; and<BR>(iii) the G8 Justice and Interior
Ministers are interested in supporting the war on terror on the "home
front" by introducing measures which restrict our civil liberties (such as
identity cards and detention and control orders), and by the inhumane treatment
of asylum seekers;<BR><BR>(b) believes that:-<BR>(i) the G8 visit will put
Sheffield on the map as a place which welcomes undemocratic and repressive
tendencies at the highest level;<BR>(ii) the security measures being put in
place for the G8 visit (secrecy, exclusion zones, issuing of passes) are
themselves an indication of this style of government; and<BR>(iii) the desire to
be internationally recognised should not outweigh the rights and well- being of
local people and businesses; and<BR><BR>(c) therefore:-<BR>(i) regrets the lack
of consultation preceding the decision to host the G8 visit;<BR>(ii) supports
the right of organisations such as Make Poverty History, Sheffield Stop the War
Coalition and Sheffield Dissent Network to peacefully demonstrate their
views;<BR>(iii) undertakes to explain to the people of Sheffield exactly what
the G8 Justice and Interior Ministers’ agenda is and how precisely their
visit befits and benefits the City; and<BR>(iv) in the interests of closing the
gap internationally, instructs the Chief Executive to look into the possibility
of hosting a meeting for the G77 – a caucus of the World’s poorest
nations.<BR></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>