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<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>G8 summit: Sheffield people denounce
suppression of the right to protest.<br>
</span></font></u></b>On June 15-17 the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>‘Justice and Home affairs’ ministers of the G8, the world’s seven
richest nations and Russia, will gather in Sheffield to discuss the home front
of the ‘war against terrorism’.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The police have invoked special measures to prevent protests, informing
organisers that no marches of any size will be allowed in the city centre
during the summit. Any such protests will be met with force and arrests. Under
the pretext of “security” the police are attempting to marginalize protests by
confining protestors to a pen on Devonshire Green. Sheffield Against G8
proposed a march on the afternoon of 15<sup>th</sup> June. Sheffield Stop the
War Coalition proposed static pickets on the evenings of 15<sup>th</sup> and 16<sup>th</sup>
June. Both these protests have been flatly prohibited.<br style='mso-special-character:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Whatever one’s view of the G8, we urge Sheffield people to oppose
restrictions on the right to protest and to the imposition of what amounts to
martial law over the centre of our city.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We, the undersigned, believe that the blanket ban on peaceful protests
in our city centre is an outrageous and unacceptable infringement of our
democratic right to protest. We call on all citizens, organisations and elected
representatives in Sheffield to press for these repressive decisions to be
reversed.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>SIGNED …..</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>What you can do:</span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Send a
message by email to <a href="mailto:Jillian.Creasy@Sheffield.gov.uk">Jillian.Creasy@Sheffield.gov.uk</a>
confirming that you support the statement (or print off and send a hard
copy to Cllr Jillian Creasy, Town Hall, Pinstone St, Sheffield, S1 2HH). I
will send the statement as a letter and press release to The Star and the
Sheffield Telegraph on the evening of Tuesday 31<sup>st</sup> May.</span></font></li>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Forward/print
and pass on this message to friends and colleagues – we need to collect as
many signatures as possible within a few days.</span></font></li>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Join the
march for Peace and Justice organised by Sheffield Stop the War Coalition
on Saturday 11<sup>th</sup> June – assemble 10.30am, Devonshire Green,
march to Peace in the Park Festival, Cemetery Road.</span></font></li>
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