[ssf] events

Mon Feb 21 14:03:23 GMT 2005

Saturday 5th March, FairTrade fortnight, 'Banana Justice' with Regina 
Joseph from the Windward Islands, Linda McAvan MEP 8pm Endcliffe 
Methodist Church, Eccleshall Road

Thursday 10th March, 'The Revolution will not be Televised', documentary 
about failed Venezuelan coup of 2002, launching 'Sheffield-2-Venezuela', 
St Matthews Meeting Rooms, Carver Street.

As advertised at the BOM

Chris

@mparo wrote:
> 
>> Amp - wanna meet to get this done, or are you happy to draft one for
>> the list, for the collective's approval?
> 
> 
> 
> Hia, :-)
> 
>  i think if it's OK for you, i will be happy to draft one announcement
> text for the list, for the collective's approval.
> 
> What I would need *to know* is :
> Are there any contributors sending events or wishing to send events 
> other than the
> ones made public by the ssf-list? (which i can read). Any other posts by
> non members sending events and waiting for moderators' approval?
> If anyone could check that, and let me know, fantastic.
> 
> Then if you don't object, I will go ahead with the draft.
> If any doubt or problem arises, I will contact this list for collective
> help and meet you if convenient.
> 
>  Does anyone think this should be a monthly bulletin, ?
> Not a fortnightly bulletin? There are so many events in the next 30
> days, the list could easily reach 10 pages.
> 
> 
>>> "What is needed then is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable
>>> to a world of human rights and cosmopolitan values. We can already
>>> discern its outline: an imperialism which, like all imperialism,
>>> aims to bring order and organisation but which rests today on the
>>> voluntary principle." )
>>>
>>> [New Labour's Robert Cooper - Tony Blair's 'policy guru' and senior
>>>  diplomat.]
> 
> 
> [which rests *today* on the *voluntary principle*]
> 
> what the hell does it mean, today (not tomorrow?) voluntary?
> 
> 
> 
> Dan wrote:
> 
>> Hia!
>>
>> Here's my initial thoughts, along with a link to the WIKI page where
>>  I've put the G8 notes -
>>
>> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2005/02/305597.html
>>
>> http://wiki.sheffieldsocialforum.org.uk/SheffieldG7
>>
>> On the announcements list - we should pass a new one by this list,
>> then get it sent out.
>>
>> Amp - wanna meet to get this done, or are you happy to draft one for
>> the list, for the collective's approval?
>>
>> Good work, everyone!  The top nutters are coming to Sheffield in
>> June: the ones who use this kind of logic:
>>
>> "Sovereignty entails obligations.  One is not to massacre your own 
>> people. Another is not to support terrorism in any way. If a
>> government fails to meet these obligations, then it forfeits some of
>> the normal advantages of sovereignty, including the right to be left
>> alone inside your own territory. Other governments, including the US,
>> gain the right to intervene. In the case of terrorism this can even
>> lead to a right of preventive, or peremptory, self-defence."
>>
>> (And, of course, if we broaden our definition of terrorism, we get to
>>  impose our imperialism, which is defined thus  - )
>>
>> "What is needed then is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable to
>> a world of human rights and cosmopolitan values. We can already
>> discern its outline: an imperialism which, like all imperialism, aims
>> to bring order and organisation but which rests today on the
>> voluntary principle." )
>>
>> [New Labour's Robert Cooper - Tony Blair's 'policy guru' and senior 
>> diplomat.]
>>
>> (i.e. 'yes! yes! colonise us! We're poor and we're stupid and we need
>>  the first world to tell us what to do, coz you're so clever and
>> brave and true and free!')
>>
>> I'm curious about that one: "Sovereignty entails obligations.  One is
>>  not to massacre your own people."
>>
>> That's from Richard Haass - was Powell's director of policy in 2002.
>>  What about taking all the money from most of your poor people to 
>> subsidise the rich and pay for a war, and then get all those poor
>> people to get drafted?  Yeah, I'm sure that's fine.
>>
>> How - no, really, *how*, do these f*ckers get away with this?  I
>> concur once again with CM - "Bunch of sticking capitalist
>> twattymuffins. Lets blow shit up."
>>
>> Ah ha!  That should *surely* be enough for both of us to get put
>> under house arrest, no?  I'm sure it's more evidence than most others
>> have attached to them!
>>
>> peace - no, really! - peace. Peace, but anger.
>>
>> Dan ----
>>
>> @mparo wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 07968 997861 0114 2412723
>>>>>
>>>>> The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade
>>>>> you do not expect to sit.
>>>>>
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