<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">----- Forwarded Message ----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Michael Reinsborough <m.reinsborough@qub.ac.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "resistG82005@lists.riseup.net" <resistG82005@lists.riseup.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, December 22, 2008 7:11:36 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [resistg82005] FW: News ofG20 mobilisation, London and Dissent List<br></font><br>
1. Jan 24-25 planning mtg re G20 The Foundry, 86 Gt Eastern St, London, EC2<br>2. email list --> <a href="https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/dissent2009uk" target="_blank">https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/dissent2009uk</a><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: News ofG20 mobilisation, London and Dissent List<br>Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:35:58 -0800 (PST)<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:eal@riseup.net" href="mailto:eal@riseup.net">eal@riseup.net</a><br>To: undisclosed-recipients:;<br><br>Hi<br>Apologies for cross posting.<br>At the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, we decided to resurrect the UK Dissent<br>list as a means for communicating between people thinking about going to<br>Italy summer 09. So far, we have not heard much news of mobilisation from<br>Italy. However he have heard, incase you didn't know already, the G20 are<br>coming to London on April 2nd. This email contains news of a meeting in<br>London in January of people
beginning to plan for the counter G20 summit,<br>and also information about the mass mobilisation being initiated by big<br>environmental/development NGOs, "a funeral for TINA, there is no<br>alternative, and BAU, business as usual" .<br><br>Please sign up to the dissent UK list at lists.riseup or using link below<br>for more information. Currently very low traffic<br><a href="https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/dissent2009uk" target="_blank">https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/dissent2009uk</a><br><br><br>MORE IMPORTANTLY PLEASE ASK MATES/CONTACTS TO SIGN UP TO THIS LIST IF NOT<br>ALREADY_ TO RESSURRECT THIS DISSENT LIST AS A COMMUNICATION TOOL BETWEEN<br>PEOPLE - NOT TRYING TO RE-FORM THE NETWORK AT THIS STAGE.<br>NB we also have access to the dissent UK webpage if anyone has ideas for<br>content please send to <a ymailto="mailto:adelayde@riseup.net" href="mailto:adelayde@riseup.net">adelayde@riseup.net</a><br><br>***MEETING<br>At The Foundry,
86 Gt Eastern St, London, EC2 for the weekend of Sat Jan<br>24 (3 to 7)/Sun Jan 25 (3 to 6ish) there will be a space booked with a<br>view to consultation and planning on april 2 for g20. The space downstairs<br>should be very good for discussion for up to 40-50 people easily, and<br>could break into smaller groups second day if needed. Please advise if we<br>are clashing with other major events, but the chance of this central<br>London venue seemed too good to miss. if anything is going to happen we<br>need to get things moving. We need people there who are experienced in<br>facilitating direct action planning. Please can everyone bring along<br>anyone from their networks who will want to take ownership of g20<br>activities. the Govt of he Dead is simply offering a space to confer.<br> in the name of the Government of the Dead<br> The only good government is a dead
government!<br><br><br>***NGO MEETING<br><br> Dear all<br><br> I've just come from a meeting of UK development and environment NGOs<br>strategising responses to the financial crisis and particularly to the<br>April G20 summit in London.<br><br> This meeting was held at SOAS in London, and represented were Trade<br>Justice Movement, Tax Justice Network, Trade Union Council, Bretton Woods<br>Project, New Economic Foundation, Oxfam, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Tear Fund,<br>Traidcraft, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Friends of the Earth, World<br>Development Movement and many more. We heard<br>presentations from critical economists, and talked about what was<br>needed to raise public awareness and engagement with the process of<br>international financial reform etc.<br><br> I'll be putting video of the presentations online at<br><a href="http://www.engagemedia.org"
target="_blank">http://www.engagemedia.org</a> (linked from <a href="http://www.ifiwatch.tv" target="_blank">http://www.ifiwatch.tv</a>, of course<br>;-) ) in the next day or two, and you can check<br><a href="http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org" target="_blank">http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org</a> for a report of this and the other<br>meetings in this process. Today's was the second - the report from the<br>first in October is here:<br><a href="http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/art-562842" target="_blank">http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/art-562842</a><br><br> A working group is right now drafting a joint position paper, this<br>will go out tonight/tomorrow for initial feedback before the end of the<br>week. It will then be finalised by jan 8th and taken to the Paris European<br>civil society meeting and the World Social Forum.<br><br> The TUC is booking central London venues for a mass mobilisation round<br>the time of
the G20 meet. All the groups represented seemed to agree when<br>people said that mass mobilisation was needed, that the G20 is not a<br>legitimate power base and that lobbying would likely have a<br>marginal impact if at all, that it was time for a funeral for 'TINA'<br>(There Is No Alternative) as well as 'BAU' (Business As Usual), and that<br>what is needed now is to demonstrate the many alternatives that *are* out<br>there. SO... I got the impression that a lot of the<br>collective work will be about offering positive and hopeful examples of<br>alternative economics and reclaiming the idea of 'security', to make a<br>contrast to the doom and gloom being peddled everywhere else, and to<br>inspire people to feel it is worth re-engaging with REAL world politics at<br>this critical juncture...<br><br> The three main points of agreement so far are (more or less):<br> Economic Equity,<br> Democratic Accountability
and<br> Environmental Sustainability;<br> each of these are to be applied both nationally and internationally,<br>thus already taking the discourse outside a lot of NGOs' 'comfort<br>zones'.. and that's before they even get to the 'crunchy stuff' of any<br>detailed drafting of common positions.<br><br> The representatives at today's meet will now go back to their networks<br>and see how firm a language can be agreed.. nothing will be finalised<br>before the Paris meet.. they are happy to admit that the process is being<br>made up as it goes along, my impression is thereare many new opportunities<br>for political interventions and alliances opening up amidst the death<br>throes of a debunked neo-liberal economic model and AngloSaxon hegemony.<br><br> I was asked to find out about and connect to any other mobilisation<br>processes ongoing, specifically proposals that would be presented at
the<br>"European cross network civil society meeting for a common<br>response to the global crises", Paris, 10th - 11th January 2009. Can<br>anyone advise? Stop the War, maybe, are they up to stuff?<br><br> If anyone is interested to connect with this network/process I am more<br>than happy to be an initial contact point, forward the draft paper etc to<br>anyone who is not getting it through other channels etc.<br><br> My feeling is that a lot of people/groups have learned from the<br>failures of Make Poverty History and with this new context of the<br>whole house of cards collapsing, there is real awareness and<br>understanding emerging of the levels of anger people feel now, which is<br>only likely to have grown by April.... and that highly potent ways of<br>working together really can now emerge.<br><br>
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