[Ssf] Ideas for 2005...

[Dan]

So, yup, to follow on from the last e-mail, here's some ideas:

* A social: music, spoken word, film, art, light and people setting fire 
to sticks dipped in paraffin and spinning them round their heads.  Not 
been enough of this in recent times, for God's sake.

Issues: Indymedia want to raise money for the server appeal (can we help?)
Peace in the Park - what's happening there? Are they doing a social 
fundraiser?

*SSF2005:  Yeah, maybe... but another thought - have a smaller event 
during the G8 Sheffield stuff, but speak to Peace in the Park people 
about possibly doing workshops / having a 'leftfield' tent(s) at peace 
in the park, in place of in indoor event.

* Organise a specific event on regeneration.  I keep on going on about 
this one and not doing anything about it... but it ties in to so many 
things: G8, food sovereignty, local vs global, local democratic control, 
giving the powers that be a chance to state their case, giving us leftie 
rock-throwers a chance to find out if they're human...

* Hungry for Justice and the launch of the Green Food Map - there's a 
post-conference plan for a Hungry for Justice website that'll have the 
transcripts from the conference (some of the stuff is FANTASTIC!  I 
should stick the doc on the WIKI...) along with resources on how to 
campaign, why it's such a political issue, how it ties local to global, 
etc... SSF could help mediate all this into a really good event, 
inviting Healthy Sheffield etc.

* City Fair Trade status - a chance to get SSF, P&P, WDM, Christian Aid 
etc together to talk about this one campaign.

* Seeds for Change - offering them help to organise here.  Has someone 
else already done this?

* A 'speak truth to power' workshop event: how to get what you want from 
the powers that be: what their limitations and uses are.

* Day trips!  Let's go to Manchester, see Merci, go to the new Dissent 
cafe / bookshop / space - which is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!  They also have 
an 'urban art exhibition'  - someone's gone around and got photos of all 
the fantastic graffiti, most of it beautiful and anti-corporate, and put 
it all on the wall.  But you can also tour around the place with a handy 
guide!

Or to Hebden Bridge, or up to Leeds to meet the Leeds ARC folk, go to 
Maelstrom, whatever...

Er... that'll do for now.

Peace!

Dan

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