[Ssf] Ideas for 2005...

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Thanks to you, Alice, and particularly to the ones that did the washing
up after the meeting and all the cooking.
Fan-tas-tically cool, yes. What were the opinions, if already known,
about "too structured or too chaotic"?

R&A



Alice Collins wrote:

> Hi everyone, Loads of thanks to everyone who came; talked; listened;
> organised themselves; cooked food; ate it ; shifted tables; washed
> up; drank beer afterwards. I think the Big Open Meeting was
> exciting. Love alice.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan" <dan at aktivix.org> To:
> <Ssf at lists.aktivix.org> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:09 PM 
> Subject: [Ssf] Ideas for 2005...
> 
> 
> 
>> 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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