[ssf] Re: G8 callout

[robin_amparo at tiscali.co.uk]

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>> Coming as this does only three weeks before the main G8 meeting in 
>> Gleneagles in July, we invite the movement to look at the G8 justice 
>> ministers meeting as part of the road to Gleneagles, the first round 
>> in a salvo of protest in the name of civil liberties. 
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> Don't forget  M17th at Derby, with Environment Development masters.  
> ("second" round perhaps?)


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> Subject:
> [Fwd: Re: [ssf] G8 callout]
> From:
> Chris Malins <chrismalins at gmail.com>
> Date:
> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:59:52 +0000
> To:
> SSF <ssf at lists.aktivix.org>
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> To:
> SSF <ssf at lists.aktivix.org>
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> Latest update to the callout, taking on board comment about mentioning 
> Gleneagles. Apologies if people have been editing on wiki as well, 
> haven't checked yet.
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> "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 driving out asylum seekers
> who were 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.
>
> Coming as this does only three weeks before the main G8 meeting in 
> Gleneagles in July, we invite the movement to look at the G8 justice 
> ministers meeting as part of the road to Gleneagles, the first round 
> in a salvo of protest in the name of civil liberties.
>
> 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."
>
> Chris
>