6.00 pm, Wednesday 15th June at the Peace Gardens - protest.
If anyone can come to this, you really ought to.
What's going on?
- As you may know, the internal ministers of the 8 richest nations are meeting in our fair city of Sheffield next Wednesday - Friday (15th - 17th of June). Their costs (hotel fees, food, security) whilst staying are being payed for with tax money.
- 'Special Powers' have been granted to the police, including searching the homes of those living close to the Marriot Hotel in Netheredge
- All local residents have been instructed, when leaving their houses, to carry passports at all times during the visit.
- If this wasn’t enough, plans were discussed to limit access to our city centre to those on 'normal business', including cutting off bus and tram routes for the three days. However, the South Yorkshire police have now decided against this infringement of our civil rights.
So who are these ministers, and why should we protest against them being here?
The G8 represents the eight richest nations in the world. They protect the interests of big business and the rich countries - not the poor ones. The group itself is responsible for great injustices throughout the developing world, and is directly linked to the starvation, disease, and intolerable living conditions of billions of people on the planet (information on this can be found at http://www.dissent.org.uk/content/view/64/55 and http://www.makepovertyhistory.org ).
Part of the meetings include a banquet in the Winter Gardens on Wednesday evening. It is our right and our duty to let them know there is a huge (and morally justified) opposition to them and their immoral organisations.
The plan is to congregate at 6pm as close as possible to the winter gardens. This may be directly outside, in tudor square, or in the peace gardens - just which will be apparent on the day. Please be there if you care even a tiny bit about the injustices that these people continue to subject billions of people to unneccessarily.
There is a chance that the police will exercise the plan to limit access to the city centre. If this is the case, I urge you even more strongly to join the protest; our freedom to protest is so important, and we cannot give up without a struggle. In this scenario, the plan is to go into town in groups of one or two, claiming to be going about 'normal business', sometime between about 5 and 5:45 so as not to all turn up at once. As close as possible to 6, we should gather outside the Winter Gardens. If there are enough of us, there wont be anything they can do.
We hope that the police will not change their minds again, but please remember that it is our constitutional right to protest against that which we do not agree with - the law is on our side and we will be peacefully exercising our right. We are not condoning any form of violent protest.
Thank you so much for reading and helping, and if you could forward this to people that havent got it from me then excellent, let's show them we don't like what they're doing one bit, and we don't want this happening in this way in our city.
Cheers.
♥
What's going on?
- As you may know, the internal ministers of the 8 richest nations are meeting in our fair city of Sheffield next Wednesday - Friday (15th - 17th of June). Their costs (hotel fees, food, security) whilst staying are being payed for with tax money.
- 'Special Powers' have been granted to the police, including searching the homes of those living close to the Marriot Hotel in Netheredge
- All local residents have been instructed, when leaving their houses, to carry passports at all times during the visit.
- If this wasn’t enough, plans were discussed to limit access to our city centre to those on 'normal business', including cutting off bus and tram routes for the three days. However, the South Yorkshire police have now decided against this infringement of our civil rights.
So who are these ministers, and why should we protest against them being here?
The G8 represents the eight richest nations in the world. They protect the interests of big business and the rich countries - not the poor ones. The group itself is responsible for great injustices throughout the developing world, and is directly linked to the starvation, disease, and intolerable living conditions of billions of people on the planet (information on this can be found at http://www.dissent.org.uk/content/view/64/55 and http://www.makepovertyhistory.org ).
Part of the meetings include a banquet in the Winter Gardens on Wednesday evening. It is our right and our duty to let them know there is a huge (and morally justified) opposition to them and their immoral organisations.
The plan is to congregate at 6pm as close as possible to the winter gardens. This may be directly outside, in tudor square, or in the peace gardens - just which will be apparent on the day. Please be there if you care even a tiny bit about the injustices that these people continue to subject billions of people to unneccessarily.
There is a chance that the police will exercise the plan to limit access to the city centre. If this is the case, I urge you even more strongly to join the protest; our freedom to protest is so important, and we cannot give up without a struggle. In this scenario, the plan is to go into town in groups of one or two, claiming to be going about 'normal business', sometime between about 5 and 5:45 so as not to all turn up at once. As close as possible to 6, we should gather outside the Winter Gardens. If there are enough of us, there wont be anything they can do.
We hope that the police will not change their minds again, but please remember that it is our constitutional right to protest against that which we do not agree with - the law is on our side and we will be peacefully exercising our right. We are not condoning any form of violent protest.
Thank you so much for reading and helping, and if you could forward this to people that havent got it from me then excellent, let's show them we don't like what they're doing one bit, and we don't want this happening in this way in our city.
Cheers.
♥