[ssf] G8 callout

[Chris]

Hi

On Thu 24-Feb-2005 at 10:57:44AM +0000, Chris Malins
wrote:
> The council have it as G8 from Charles Clark's
> announcement. The callout currently reads thusly:
> 
> "On 16th-17th June, 2005, the G8 justice ministers will
> meet in Sheffield. They will be discussing how to
> prosecute Bush's 'War on Terror'. They are the justice
> of indefinite detention without judicial review, the
> type of justice that takes you abroad if the local laws
> won't allow torture, that at Guantanamo Bay treats
> American citizens one way and everyone else (including
> British citizens) in another.
> 
> They are the people who think that inspiring a lively
> sense of terror in their subjects makes ID cards ok, and
> that keeping out asylum seekers who are not quite
> oppressed enough is more important than social justice
> for their own people. And this will be the first round
> of our on going resistance to the G8 in the UK that
> another, as we believe that a better world can, should
> and will be possible if only they will let it.
> 
> And so the people of Sheffield are calling on the
> movement for action to be taken and alternatives to be
> presented to these people. We are offering our support
> for any groups coming to Sheffield, suggesting that the
> movement should run a week of counter conference events
> leading up to the summit, and offering the Sheffield
> Social Forum as a coordinating space for action."

I have added this text to the wiki so it can be tweaked as
needs be:

  https://wiki.sheffieldsocialforum.org.uk/G8_Call_Out

Perhaps the March G8 Derbyshire and also the Gleneagles
events should also be mentioned?

Also I wonder if it should include a list of things that
should / could be organised for Sheffield, like a
convergence centre, etc, etc...

Anyway I haven't changed the text on the wiki -- I think
it's important to get *something* send out ASAP to
advertise the meeting in The Rutland :-)

> Would someone like to volunteer to facilitate the
> 'organising committee' which will be meeting next
> Wednesday? Do we think a chair would even be
> appropriate?

It's probably OK to leave it for the people at the
meeting to decide on this at the start of the meeting?

Chris

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