A group of people involved with the Sheffield Social Forum have arranged a meeting on Wednesday, 2nd March, 7.30pm The Rutland Arms on Brown Street, Sheffield to discuss what to do when the G8 comes to Sheffield in June.
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 people in 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.
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 people in 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.
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Don't forget meeting in Derbyshire!
25.02.2005 21:03
17-18th March G8 Environment and Development Ministers Meeting, Derbyshire, UK -
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bumpkin
Meeting in Derbyshire
26.02.2005 13:22
Derby bod
Reply to Sheffield G8 meeting
02.03.2005 15:25
I may be getting old or might just be a smart arse but I wonder, SERIOUSLY, if anyone involved in the (Sheffield -June) counter G8 protest (group)has yet written to/communicated with (or even thought of it) the organisers of the G8 meeting(s) in Sheffield in June, saying something like "We live, (study or work) in Sheffield and we are very interested in Justice and Home Affairs and could we please come along and contribute to your debate, etc, etc, in order to have some REAL social inclusion...and the like...and so on and so forth??
Well, has anyone? I have. I was/AM a J18 veteran. I MUST be getting old!
Best wishes. Victor Meldrew - Smart arse.
Smart arse