<DIV>Please remember who the real enemy is.<BR><BR><B><I>g8-sheffield-request@lists.aktivix.org</I></B> wrote:
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<429A8284.1000409@mixmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>From our twin team latest comuniqué:<BR><BR>Dissent are going to be "the bad protesters"<BR>MPH are going to be "the good protesters"<BR><BR>(at least in Scotland)....<BR>> <BR>Please go on reading:<BR><BR>All Dissent-wide decisions must be made at Dissent consensus meetings,<BR>> however, local groups and working groups can make decisions and even speak<BR>> to the media if they wish as local groups. Reshape will be making various<BR>> maps and a guide for radicals visiting Scotland, to be available before<BR>> the summit. There is another large network called the Southeast assembly<BR>> that will be mobilising around the G8, based primarily around London, and<BR>> shares many local groups with Dissent.<BR>> <BR>> Dissent: www.dissent.org.uk<BR>> Reshape (Scotland Local Group in Dissent Network): www.reshape.org.uk<BR>> Southeast Assembly:
www.resistg8.org.uk<BR>> <BR>> G8 Alternatives: G8 Alternatives is a mostly socialist coalition that only<BR>> organises in Scotland. They have monthly meetings that anyone can attend,<BR>> and have attracted attention from locals in places in Scotland where<BR>> Dissent has not. Although their numbers are small, the Trotskyist<BR>> Socialist Workers Party dominates the so-called consensus meetings, making<BR>> all decisions behind closed doors in an anti-democratic manner while<BR>> pretending to have consensus. The Socialist Workers Party openly<BR>> co-operates with the police, and is known for their deceit and will do<BR>> everything possible to disrupt anarchists and direct action. However,<BR>> parts of G8 Alternatives like Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and<BR>> many of the membership are sympathetic to Dissent, so while we should be<BR>> hostile to the Socialist Workers Part*y* (SWP), do not dismiss the rest of<BR>> the
activists in G8 Alternatives. Their plans are to hold an alternative<BR>> summit in Edinburgh and a march on Gleneagles in co-operation with the<BR>> police without any direct action.<BR>> www.g8alternatives.org.uk<BR>> <BR>> Make Poverty History: This is one of the largest conglomerations of NGO<BR>> (Non-Governmental Organisations) ever, who plan to protest the G8 by<BR>> marching the weekend before in Edinburgh in hope of lobbying the G8 to<BR>> take on poverty issues in the "Third World". It is led by groups like<BR>> Oxfam, their organisers are estimating 100,000 people will march. The<BR>> current media focus seems to be on groups of anarchists disrupting the<BR>> march and attacking the Scottish Parliament, which as a tactic has never<BR>> been mentioned by anyone in Dissent. The march organisers are quite afraid<BR>> of this possibility as well. Already the media is casting "Make Poverty<BR>> History" as the "good protesters" and
Dissent as the "bad protesters".<BR>> www.makepovertyhistory.org<BR><BR>------<BR><BR>nightwatcher<BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>http://www.sheffield.dissent.org.uk/<BR>http://wiki.sheffieldsocialforum.org.uk/G8<BR>g8-sheffield mailing list<BR>g8-sheffield@lists.aktivix.org<BR>http://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/g8-sheffield<BR><BR><BR>End of g8-sheffield Digest, Vol 3, Issue 60<BR>*******************************************<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>