[ssf] Draft announcement for post-meeting

Thu Feb 3 17:10:35 GMT 2005

(Sorry dave i think i replied to you rather than to the list before)

Generally I would make the whole text more succint, too much prose in my 
opinion

Why not stick to yoursef and keep the 2004 poem (the one for the launch)
"the SSF will not be televised..."

(etc.)

This would relate the announcement with the shocking picture
and don't apologize for the picture , imho, don't try to soften it down ...

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> --- Dan <dan at aktivix.org> wrote:
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>>Hi!
>>
>>Here's a draft for the first announcement e-mail of
>>2005, which we can 
>>comment on / amend tomorrow eve before sending out
>>Thursday eve / Friday 
>>morning.
>>
>>A few points first though:
>>
>>1. How do we feel about sticking other political and
>>cultural goings on 
>>too?  Sheffield Social Forum stuff first, a big
>>line, all other events 
>>in the coming month. A request for people to send in
>>their event.
>>
>>2. We should rotate the drafting, but I think the
>>principle of making a 
>>draft before a meeting and getting it approved /
>>amended at a meeting is 
>>a good one - if only because people will bring
>>announcements of events 
>>we didn't know about.
>>
>>So:
>>-------
>>Sheffield Social Forum says 'Happy New year!'
>>
>>But... can it really be February already?  How time
>>flies! Not quite 
>>fast enough for those of us pining for Springtime...
>>alas we'll have to 
>>wait for Daffodils a little longer.
>>
>>As with daffy bulbs, though, there's a whole heap of
>>activity occurring 
>>underground we'd  like to tell you about, in the
>>hope that you'll want 
>>to help bring it al into blossom...
>>
>>Sheffield Social Forum's first foray into 2005 is to
>>be a 'Big Open 
>>Meeting' loosely titled *'Why Don't You?'* (See
>>attached poster.  Don't 
>>be put off by the broken TVs, we're lovely people
>>really!)
>>
>>It's going to be:
>>Thursday 17th Feb
>>7 to 9.30pm
>>St. Andrew's Church Hall
>>Upper Hanover Way
>>
>>It'll be a kind of mini-social forum, with food n
>>drink n good company - 
>>as well as productive talk and action-planning. 
>>Here's a list of some 
>>of the things we know will be going on - and please
>>let us know if you 
>>have something you particularly want to talk about.
>>
>>*The G8 comes to Sheffield in June, as well as
>>Scotland in July - Make 
>>Poverty History Sheffield [website?] are using the
>>chance to push hard 
>>for an end to global poverty, and Peace in the Park
>>organisers are 
>>getting involved too.
>>
>>*Peace in the Park itself will be taking place on
>>Saturday June 11th.  
>>[Website?] SSF will be hosting a 'Speakeasy' tent
>>there, and working 
>>with others to prepare, for example by going into
>>schools to run 
>>awareness-raising workshops around global issues -
>>with the ultimate 
>>goal of hosting a 'youth parliament' (or something
>>less stuffy) at Peace 
>>in the Park
>>
>>*Sheffield now has its own 'Sheffield 2 Venezuela
>>preparatory 
>>committee', who are working to get a delegation to
>>Venezuela in August 
>>for the Youth and Student Festival there. 
>>Hopefully, they'll be coming 
>>along too.
>>
>>*The Burngreave Masterplan has ruffled some
>>feathers, entailing as it 
>>does large-scale demolition, and triggered a local
>>fight-back.  SSF is 
>>getting stuck in, looking for ways to hold planning
>>minister Keith Hill 
>>to his words... which were, rather shockingly, 'Let
>>the People Decide!'
>>
>>*Building on previous work done around the impending
>>disability welfare 
>>cuts, we'll be working to raise awareness of what's
>>going on, on the 
>>hardships faced by people on disability benefits -
>>and how much worse it 
>>could get if Blair gets his way.  How can we support
>>a group who are so 
>>often ignored and sidelined?  Can you help too?
>>
>>*Get yer creative juices flowing!  Creative Action
>>Network - those 
>>responsible for Sharrow's awe-inspiring lantern
>>carnival, will be there 
>>on the 17th, as well as various other folk looking
>>to put their creative 
>>talents to good use.  If you want to come and join
>>in, there'll be 
>>opportunities to talk about and plan any number of
>>possibilities, 
>>including...
>>
>>*A new Sheffield radical newsletter!  Radical means
>>'getting to the root 
>>of things'.  A plan is afoot to launch a monthly
>>newsletter, in 
>>conjunction with Sheffield Indymedia, with this aim
>>in mind.  It won't 
>>just be dull leftie politics, though.  Supported by
>>a fortnightly 
>>writing and creativity workshop, and due to launch
>>its first issue at 
>>the end of March, we hope this will be an exciting
>>read, as well as 
>>bringing together in one place all the month's best
>>political and 
>>politico-cultural goings on in Sheffield and beyond.
>>
>>*Democracy Cafes now carry on under their own steam,
>>first Tuesday of 
>>every month at the Blue Moon.  But are they steering
>>the right path 
>>between freeform and agenda-driven?  And just how
>>good is Blue Moon's 
>>cake?  (They're not paying us, you know!)
>>
>>*... and of course, Sheffield Social Forum itself! 
>>We need more bodies 
>>to keep the good ship SSF afloat in 2005.  There's
>>lots to do, as you 
>>can see.  It's going to be fun, but it'll be hard
>>work!  Particularly, 
>>it would be *great* to know what kind of events and
>>speakers you would 
>>want to see in the coming year, so SSF can make a
>>forward planner.
>>
>>*Oh and *please* bring your ideas too: you *can*
>>make a difference!
>>
>>Hope to see you on the 17th.
>>
>>Some p.s's:
>>
>>1. Please tell other people: word of mouth is the
>>best advertising!
>>2. If you want to get more stuck in to the
>>day-to-day machinations of 
>>organising, you can subscribe to the discussion list
>>at:
>>http://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/ssf
>>3. I'm the named contact at the minute: that's Dan
>>on 07968 997861 or 
>>dan at aktivix.org
>>
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