Activist groups come together to take action over G8


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9:57 am - June 5th 2013

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A range of direct-action groups based in the UK are to come together in an unprecedented show of force and solidarity during the coming G8 Summit.

Activists from anti-austerity group UKuncut will join Occupy London, No Dash For Gas, Fuel Poverty Action and others under the banner: They Owe Us, for a protest in Canary Wharf later this month.

They say they will focus on ‘creative civil disobedience’ at one of London’s economic centres, focusing on cuts, climate and capitalism.

There will be speakers, music, poetry and workshops as well as an element of surprise that will be revealed on the day, a press release said today.

The event has been planned in conjunction with other anti-G8 activities taking place all over the UK and Ireland from the 9th to the 18th of June.

Frida Grey, of They Owe Us said;

In the UK, we’ve had years of recession, a desecrated welfare system, rising fuel poverty and inequality. The G8 owe us: for the public money that has been used to bail out the banks; for the jobs we’ve lost, the homes we’re losing and the pensions they’ve taken from us.

They owe us our healthy planet, the one they destroy through financing fossil fuels. And they owe us the power they’ve taken, distorting and destroying democracy. They like to think we’re in debt to them, but we know better – they owe us.

Details
When: 12.30pm, 14th June 2013
Where: Canary Wharf, London
What: Direct Action against the G8

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Oh goodie! Such fun. One big demo to change the world. Lots of singing and lots of gap-year drums to beat.
Better tell miscellaneous workmen, such as newspaper vendors, to go somewhere else that day or risk being held hostage to the demonstrator’s fortune.

“In the UK, we’ve had years of recession, a desecrated welfare system, rising fuel poverty and inequality. The G8 owe us: for the public money that has been used to bail out the banks; for the jobs we’ve lost, the homes we’re losing and the pensions they’ve taken from us.”

The same welfare system which has never spent more in nominal terms and is almost at a peak in real terms?

The money that has bailed out the banks which has almost all been repaid?

Jobs? I’m guessing many of these protesters have never had one but the actual number of people in work in the UK has never been higher….

Home repos in the UK are around 30,00 a year and falling…and the number of owners in arrears is also dropping fast.

Pensions haven’t been “stolen” except for the private sector, where Gordon Brown was the thief.

It’s lovely to rant about how the nasty capitalists have destroyed everything, but the reality is far from their distorted, imagined story. I’m glad few people take these people seriously, but I’m amazed they are given any airtime at all. That said i’m not surprised it’s the loonys from UKUncut and Occupy leading this charge.

Hey Tyler – what country are you in again?

4. Edward Lud

Isn’t ‘activist’ another word for ‘communist’?

And what might these activists do that is going to change anything? Bang on about Starbucks some more?
Or is this kind of activism just seen as generally positive whatever people are campaigning about? … as long as it could be seen as broadly progressive of course. Fracking, save the whales, CND, hate George Bush and Tony ”B liar” etc (yawn). And posh Tories and power stations, ‘gas guzzlers’ and McDonald’s. As all these people can get together and network and everything. It’s like the modern Woodstock. Is this why LC promotes this stuff?
Anyway, it’s in Northern Ireland – shouldn’t they be going over there?

6. Charlieman

@OP: “There will be speakers, music, poetry and workshops as well as an element of surprise that will be revealed on the day…”

Wot do you mean? Do you reckon that a pseudo spontaneous uprising might occur? Or is it just the press flipping the tag on a story to “no longer embargoed”?

7. Shatterface

I was scepticle until I heard there’d be poetry involved.

I’m also reminded of Alexei Sayle’s comment that anyone who uses the word ‘workshop’ outside of light engineering is a twat.


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