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Rice on ministers' menu

steve | 13.06.2005 21:38 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Sheffield

An article from the Sheffield Star about the Make Poverty invite to G8 ministers to eat rice with them on Devonshire Green
- 08 June 2005

 http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1048539

CAMPAIGNERS from Sheffield are inviting ministers bound for next week's G8 meeting to give up their luxury 'gala dinner' and instead join crowds in Devonshire Green for a simple bowl of rice.

The invitation was sent out today by the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY campaign to Justice and Interior ministers from the world's most powerful countries, who are converging in Sheffield from June 15 to 17.

Senior ministers from Britain, USA, Russia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan are due to discuss security and justice issues.
On Thursday June 16 they are due to dine at the Cutler's Hall - and campaigners want the ministers to show they're serious about tackling poverty by trying the kind of dinner billions of people around the world eat every night. The meeting, which is set to make Sheffield a focus of international media attention, comes just weeks before the G8 leaders' summit in Scotland, where the campaign against global poverty looks set to dominate the agenda.

Sir Bob Geldof has already called for a million people to march on Edinburgh.Campaigner Chris Malins, of MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY, said: "We don't know if the ministers will come, but it would be fantastic if they did.
"There will be hundreds of local people there - it's going to be like a big picnic on Devonshire Green, where everyone's there to say 'enough is enough, it's time to do something about this'.

"And if enough of us come, the ministers won't be able to just ignore us."
He added: "The ministers are going to be talking about justice and security.
"We want to remind them that poverty creates insecurity – and not just for the poor. Thirty thousand children die unnecessarily every day.

"When countries like ours are seen to be treating the poorest countries in the world unfairly, that makes the world a more dangerous place. We can either try and solve that by putting up barriers and defences, or we can really solve it by tackling poverty."
The campaigners also issued invites to politicians from Sheffield Council, many of whom pledged their support for the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY campaign during last Wednesday's council meeting.

Rice for Dinner will take place on Devonshire Green at 7.30pm on Thursday June 16.

steve

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Rice for Dinner

13.06.2005 23:12

The web site for the meal is here:  http://vortigo.org/ricefordinner/

And the flyer is here:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2005/06/313368.pdf

basmati


Let them eat cake!

14.06.2005 05:29

This "Rice for Dinner" lark,looks like being a good event, well organised and popular on thursday evening. It is, of course, the "fluffy" side(fluffy rice -geddit?) of the Thursday G8 protests/events and will also, to a small extent, be an awareness and fund -raiser for the Make Poverty History Coalition. Well done people.

"A lot of people won't get no supper tonight".
"A lot of people won't get no justice tonight".

"The battle is getting harder, in this old nation,
Armagideon time".

"A lot of people runnin and a hidin tonight".
"A lot of people WONT GET NO JUSTICE tonight".
"Remember - to kick it over.
No one will guide you - - Armagideon time".

Williams/Joe Boy Strummer.

Will we get the nice and fluffy middle-classes to sing? I wonder.........?

Chippy Minton


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